Bookkeeping · Northern Ireland
Bookkeeping for small businesses across Northern Ireland
I keep the books for small owner-managed businesses — purchase and sales ledgers, reconciliations, VAT returns, journal posting, and working papers through to trial balance. A fixed monthly fee, agreed in writing before anything starts.
What I do
What the work covers
Purchase ledger and supplier payments
Invoices coded and posted with line detail for recurring suppliers, delivery dockets checked against what was actually invoiced, statements reconciled ahead of each payment run, and missing paperwork chased before it becomes a problem at year end.
Sales, takings and lodgements
Sales journals prepared from your own tills and systems, with card, cash and lodgement reconciliations agreed and any rounding journalled out.
Bank and control reconciliations
Bank accounts, card merchants and control accounts reconciled properly rather than forced to agree — so a difference gets found and explained while it is still small.
VAT returns
VAT returns prepared from the ledgers as they are kept, with every figure agreed back to the records behind it, ready for you or your accountant to submit. VAT advice, registrations and scheme decisions belong with your accountant.
Journals and adjustments
Accruals, prepayments, depreciation, wages journals and corrections, posted with the supporting documents kept alongside them so anyone can see later why an entry was made.
Working papers to trial balance
The ledgers taken through to a trial balance, with a full set of working papers behind each balance. Your accountant starts from something they can rely on instead of unpicking it first.
Sales invoicing and credit control
Invoices raised and sent on time, statements issued, and debtors followed up steadily rather than only when cash gets tight — the part most owners put off longest.
Accounting software and setup
I work in your own software rather than moving you onto mine — Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, including Sage 50 on the desktop, with AutoEntry and similar for document capture. Setting up nominal codes and departments from scratch is work I am happy to do.
If it is part of keeping a small business's books, it is work I will take on — ask. Year-end accounts, tax returns and audit belong with your accountant, and my job is to hand them a trial balance and working papers they can begin from rather than take apart.
Who I work with
Small owner-managed businesses
- Trades and construction
- Retail and forecourt
- Cafés, pubs and takeaways
- Hair and beauty
- Professional and service firms
- Property letting
- Online sellers
Based in Coleraine, working across Northern Ireland. Most of the work is done remotely; I come to you where collecting paperwork in person makes more sense.
How it works
Fixed fees, agreed in advance
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A conversation
We talk through what you have, how many invoices a month it runs to, and what your accountant needs at the other end.
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A written quote
A fixed monthly fee with the scope set out in full, so both of us know exactly what is and isn't included before anything starts.
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A review at three months
If the work turns out heavier or lighter than we both expected, the fee is revisited — in either direction. Then annually after that.
About
Lesley-Ann Moore
I have passed all Accounting Technicians Ireland examinations and have ten years' experience across accountancy practice, industry and corporate finance.
That means I have seen a set of books from three sides: in practice, preparing accounts from someone else's records; inside a company's finance function, where the numbers have to be good enough to run the business on; and in corporate finance, where they have to stand up to scrutiny from outside. It is an unusual route into bookkeeping, and it shows in the records I keep.
Moore Financial Solutions is my own practice, based in Coleraine. The person who sets up your ledgers is the person who reconciles them, and the same person who notices when something doesn't look right.
I live in Coleraine with my husband, our son and a collie, which means we spend a lot of time on the beach whatever the weather. I sing and play piano, and I'm part of Portrush Theatre Company's annual pantomime. I love being part of the North Coast community, and the panto is a good way to lift the January blues.
I am not a registered auditor, I am not registered as an HMRC agent, and I do not give tax advice.
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- Supervised by HMRC
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- Registered with the ICO
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- Experience
- All Accounting Technicians Ireland examinations passed. Ten years across practice, industry and corporate finance.
Contact
Get in touch
Tell me what you have and what your accountant needs at the other end, and I will tell you what I would charge to look after it.
- Telephone
- 07447 636 237
- Based in
- Coleraine, Co. Londonderry
- Working across
- Northern Ireland