Green Accountancy are uniquely qualified in both accountancy (Chartered Certified Accountants) and environmental conservation (Diploma from Oxford University).

We provide small businesses, freelancers and contractors with VAT, payroll, management and year-end accounts. Taxation services include returns and tax planning. We are specialists in financial forecasts, tax minimisation, business strategies, shares and share options.

We also help businesses consider the environment and assess, target and reduce business impacts. Environmental advice includes five-step-plan for small businesses, environmental taxes, carbon foot-printing, carbon accounting, environmental policy statements, procurement procedures and supply chain reviews.

Our many years experience in accountancy is based entirely on working with small businesses. Our managing director was a partner at a seven partner Oxford practice for four years and technical director at a national firm for two years.

Our practice is operated with as little environmental impact as possible (see the environmental policies on the website). We are environmentally and people friendly.

We offer guaranteed response times for all queries and work. All fees quoted and agreed in advance. All our clients benefit from free unlimited telephone and email support.

Business vision

Our vision is to be at the forefront of 'green' business advice to the owners of small enterprises, as they become a leading force towards environmentally friendly and ethically based business practices in the UK. Green Accountancy will create a step change in advice to small businesses that will benefit those receiving our advice and the environment.

Business aims

Our aim is to help and encourage small businesses to reduce their environmental impacts. In doing so, those businesses will benefit from growth, reduced costs, tax savings and significantly improved employee morale.

Business philosophies and beliefs

We believe that climate change, pollution and habitat destruction are the greatest threats to wildlife and biodiversity. These destructive events are caused by human activities, especially businesses.

Small businesses contribute over 50% of GDP in the UK. This implies that small businesses are having a significant affect on the environment.

By taking the environment into consideration, small businesses can play an important role in reducing the causes of climate change, pollution and habitat destruction.

Business Values

Our key values are honesty, accuracy and prompt and reliable service.

We pride ourselves on connecting with the people behind businesses by listening and understanding them and by providing practical advice.

Business Information

Date established:: 1 August 2007
Contact details: David Wilsdon Director david@greenaccountancy.com 0845 478 6346
Business structure Help Basic business structures under UK law include: sole trader, partnership, private company limited by shares, private company limited by guarantee, community interest company, public limited company, private unlimited company, and franchise.: Private Limited Company.
Address of company headquarters: 21 High Street Eynsham OX29 4HE
Countries of operations: UK
Countries where goods and/or services are sold: UK
Size of workforce: 5
Financial year Help The 12 months used as a company's accounting period. This may or may not be a calendar year.: 1st July to 30th June
Turnover (last financial year) Help Income that the business receives from its normal business activities, usually from the sale of goods and services to customers. Also known as total revenue, total sales or the top line.: No information submitted
Profit (last financial year) Help Gross profit is the total turnover minus cost of sales. Net profit is the turnover minus all expenses, including payroll and tax. Businesses are asked to state gross profit, net profit or both. This field can be left blank.: No information submitted
Details of owners: David Wilsdon owns 100% of the company.
Directors' other business interests Help Businesses are asked to list other directorships held by their directors and company secretary: No other trading companies or business activities.

Goods and Services

Start up and registrations
Advice on starting a business, grants & funding
Business plans, setting up a bank account etc.
Registering with HMRC, VAT, PAYE and CIS registration
Limited company formations (fixed fee GBP 95+VAT)

Annual services
Accounts and tax computations for self employed, partnerships, limited companies and landlords
Personal, partnership and company self assessment tax returns
Annual returns and Form 42
Advice on audit of a branch
Payroll year end and P11Ds

Monthly and quarterly services
Review and update of your bookkeeping spreadsheet or data file
VAT returns, dividends, payroll, CIS bureau
Management accounts

Freelancers, contractors and consultants
Inclusive package for freelancers (GBP 50 to GBP 75+VAT per month)
Employment status and IR35 advice
IR35 Contract reviews (GBP 95+VAT per contract)

Accounting software
Selection, installation, training and maintenance of software packages such as KashFlow, Sage, MYOB, QuickBooks and Access Accounts
Data file error checking for any of these packages

Tax planning
Business and personal tax planning
Capital allowances including retrospective claims
Car and property purchase and leasing decisions
Taxation of companies compared to sole traders

Taxation advice
Capital gains tax, overseas, national insurance, stamp duty, inheritance tax and investment income
Employment tax, termination payments and benefits in kind
Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) and VAT issues including property elections, error disclosure and inspections
Tax enquiries and penalty negotiations

Company regulation
Limited company formations (GBP 95+VAT)
Companies Act and Companies House (all forms)
Dormant company accounts
Allotment, amendments, transfers and purchase of own shares
Companies Act 2006 advice

Special projects and corporate finance
Incorporation and company restructuring
Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) share option schemes
Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)
Projections: cash flow, profit and balance sheet
Profitability review
Debtors, credit control and cash collection
Share and business valuations
Succession planning, exit and retirement strategies
Strategic planning and business development
Closing a company including capital distributions
Sale of business, goodwill and company property

Envirotax
Car related envirotaxes
Energy and water efficiency capital allowances
Advice on climate change levy, landfill tax, aggregates levy, transport tax

Environmental management framework
Discussion on why to reduce environmental impacts
Assessment, targeting and reducing environmental impacts
Business carbon emissions calculations and recording
Environmental policies and statements

Business Responses

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Environment

Does your company have a strategy for waste minimisation and management?

Rationale for question

Disposing of materials to a landfill is inefficient. It is a careless use of finite resources, damaging to the environment and extremely expensive. Companies do not generally realise the full or true cost of their waste and often only recognise the expense of disposal. Even disposal costs are estimated at an average of 4 to 5% of business turnover in the UK and this is set to rise as available holes in the ground are filled up. The true cost of waste can often be 5-20 times greater.

Waste is much more than the materials that appear in a skip or in the piles of plastic bags after the office has been cleaned. It includes, for example, the energy wasted when lights are when a building is empty, or when a vehicle is left with its engine running whilst the driver makes a delivery. Every business, regardless of size, turnover or sector can take steps to minimise waste because many of the savings require little more than a change of practice or business culture.

A waste minimisation and management strategy goes beyond a bare minimum of recycling office paper. It probably requires an operations-wide review to:

identify all activities that produce waste;
identify ways to stop producing waste (Prevention);
eliminate unnecessary waste production (Reduction;
determine how to reuse waste (Re-use); and
develop ways to track progress in achieving targets for waste minimisation and management.

Efforts to reduce and manage waste may then include:

employing recycling, composting, and energy recovery methods (Recovery);
purchasing recycled products wherever possible; and
using environmentally-friendly methods of disposal (Disposal).

This pattern 'Reduce, Re-use, Recycle' is sometimes called the 'three Rs' or 'the waste hierarchy' which incorporates prevention and disposal. It is a useful model as it clearly prioritises how to deal with waste. The best, cheapest and most environmentally sound option is to prevent or reduce waste before it is generated. Waste disposal should be the last resort.

Defining Terms

A 'strategy' is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal taking into consideration the widest possible set of potential options and their impacts. Reacting to a short-term problem without changing your overall goals is usually tactical, not strategic.

'Waste minimisation' is the prevention or reduction of the use of materials, water or energy consumption at source.

'Waste management' is the collection, transport, processing and recycling of waste materials.

Primary and Secondary answer requirements

ANSWERING YES

Companies must:

describe a waste minimisation and management strategy that is appropriate to their business.

Companies may:

state whether they were founded with a mission to promote waste minimisaton and management, e.g. collection of recyclable materials, reprocessing, or production of recycled products; and
share any successes or valuable lessons learned.

ANSWERING NO

Companies must:

explain why they do not or cannot answer YES to this question, listing the business reasons, any mitigating circumstances or other reasons that apply.

Companies may:

describe any waste minimisation and management efforts they make even if they cannot be referenced as part of a broad strategy; and
mention any future intentions regarding this issue.

DON'T KNOW is not a permissible answer to this question.

NOT APPLICABLE is not a permissible answer to this question.

NO ANSWER YET is only permissible under extraordinary circumstances and then for only a limited period.

Green Accountancy

YES

We minimise waste by running as near to paperless as possible, avoiding packaging where possible and avoiding purchasing unnecessary goods. We re-use equipment that would be considered 'end of life' by some businesses.

All waste is transferred to shredding, recycling or composting except for certain foil wraps.

We always purchase recycled goods where these exist.

We monitor our waste stream to landfill (very small amounts) by volume and we review the cause of any unexpected amounts.

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