Childcare Accountant

Stay with the children, and we'll take the accounts from here

The accounts should not be another job after the setting closes. We look after the books, the tax and the returns for childcare businesses, including settings in Swansea and across South Wales, and we explain them in plain language so you can see where you stand.

Tell Rhys about the business, and he will come back with a clear next step.

Who this is for

For owners who are with the children, not stuck in the books

This is for people running a nursery, a childminding business or another childcare setting, where the day is spent with the children and the accounts are the part that slips. You need someone who understands that the setting comes first, and who will take the numbers on without turning every conversation into jargon.

The owner

Owners and managers who are in the setting all day, and who do not have a finance team picking up the books once the children have gone.

The industry

Staff costs, parent fees and funding that arrives on its own timetable. A normal set of books can make a full setting hard to read.

How we work with them

You stay with the children. We take the books, the tax and the returns, and we talk them through in plain language so you know what has been done and what it means for the setting.

The problem

The books fall behind the setting

Childcare accounts throw up problems a normal trading business does not. Staff are the biggest cost, income arrives from parents and from funding, and a full room does not always show up clearly in the bank.

  • Parent fees and funding land at different times, so a busy month and the money in the bank do not always tell the same story.
  • Wages, ratios and cover get mixed into one staff cost, and it is hard to see what the setting can actually afford.
  • Term time and the holidays sit in the same year, so a quiet stretch can look like a problem with the business when it is really the calendar.

Why RNE

Someone who will take the weight of the accounts

The books, the tax and the returns get looked after around the setting, and they get explained in plain language rather than being left for the evening. The fee is talked through before any work starts, so you know what you are agreeing to.

  • The accounts come off your desk, rather than landing after the children have gone home.
  • The fee is talked through before you commit, so there is no surprise once the work is underway.
  • You know who is looking after the work, because you speak to Rhys rather than being passed around a team.

Worth knowing

What usually comes up before you decide to start

  • The worry

    You still speak to the person doing the work

    A setting does not have time to explain the same week to someone new each month. You speak to Rhys here, he explains what he is going to look after before anything starts, and you can see what you are paying for, so you are not left wondering who is actually holding the numbers.

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  • The fees

    The fee is talked through before you start

    There is no public price list, because the fee follows the work and a childcare business is rarely a standard package. Rhys talks through what you need and what that costs before you agree to anything, so the first conversation covers the number rather than leaving it until an invoice turns up.

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FAQs

Questions about childcare accounts

These are the questions owners usually ask once the setting is full and the accounts have fallen behind. If yours is not here, that is what the first conversation is for.

  • Do you handle the records as well as the year end?

    We look after the books through the year and the accounts at the end of it, so you are not starting from a pile of paperwork when the return is due. Tax sits with that work, rather than turning into a separate job later on.

  • Can you explain the numbers without the jargon?

    Yes. The point of the work is that you can follow it. Rhys talks through what the figures mean in plain language, so you can see how the setting is actually doing.

  • What do you need from me to get started?

    Tell Rhys what the setting does, how fees and funding come in, and where the numbers feel messy. He will tell you what he needs from there, rather than sending a long list before he understands the work.

  • How do fees work?

    The fee follows the work, so there is no public price list. It is talked through before you commit, and you hear the number before anything starts.
Rhys Evans

A note from Rhys

If the setting is full and the accounts are the part that keeps slipping, that is the bit I can take off you. Tell me what you run and where the numbers feel messy, and I will come back with a clear next step rather than a pile of jargon.

Rhys Evans, Director, RNE Accounting

From the first call to a clear next step

01

Tell Rhys about the business

What you do, where the numbers feel messy, and what you want off your desk.

02

He looks at what you need

Books, tax, payroll, or a mix of the three, depending on how the business actually runs.

03

You agree the next step

The fee is talked through before you commit, so you know what happens next before any work starts.

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Message Rhys About Your Accounts

Tell us about your business and accounting needs. Rhys will come back to you to arrange next steps.

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