Services & Pricing
In our world, it’s not just about month or year end. It’s about making sure that every day you and your business have the cash and insight to achieve your and your investors’ goals. What we do is about so much more than just delivering the numbers — we translate the numbers to better help you grow your business and deliver a strategic consulting resource when you need it.
What does this mean? On a practical level, this can mean delivering a service as your part-time Finance Director. Or we can support you with a complete outsourced finance department model with management accounts and bookkeeping, or even be your finance business partner or CEO confidante.
Services include but are not limited to:
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Whatever the solutions and services, we become an integral part of your team and business.
What we don’t do:
- Tax Planning and Audits (but we will manage the process with trusted suppliers)
- Take on a client for under £1000 a month in fees
- Stay at arms’ length from your business
This isn’t us being fussy, this is just us being honest and transparent right from the start. And that’s what you get from us. Honesty. We will always tell you like it is and never hide from the difficult conversations. After all, the success of your business means the success of our business.
Your outsourced finance department solution

Leonard Business Services supports sophisticated start-ups and growing corporations with outsourced services, direction and solutions for their business finance support needs. What we do is about so much more than just delivering the numbers — we translate the information the numbers give so our clients can achieve sustainable growth.

In our world, it’s not about month or year end. It’s making sure that every day you and your business have the cash and insight to achieve your and your investors’ goals. We translate the information the numbers give us to better help you grow your business.

What does this mean? On a practical level, this can mean delivering a service as your part time Finance Director. Or we can support you with a complete outsourced finance department with management accounts and bookkeeping, or even be your finance business partner or CEO confidante.
Our clients are all very different and so it is impossible to put them into a box and give them a neat set of packaged services. Or a standard price for what we do. (We wish we could as it would make our marketing much easier!)
Here are the main ways we support businesses:
A lot of our clients come from traditional ‘hands-on’ industries like manufacturing, construction and waste management. But at the same time we also support bright young things with incredible ideas for their tech business. (And yes, we do want to pilot their products for them.)
Phase 1
Peeling back the onion to allow you to take control
This phase can often take 3 months. It is where we get really hands on with the great, good and the hidden-behind-the-stairs-cupboard-not-so-good-bits of your business. Unlike many accountancy firms, we don’t finish our work at numbers. We look at processes, bottlenecks, personalities and anything which is going to limit the ability of your business to trade profitability and hit your personal objectives for the business. You will know we have got to the end of this phase because typically you have seen sustainable fixes put in place. And more often than not, asked us to step in as part of your finance function. (If this hasn’t been requested already!)
This phase typically costs £3000+
Phase 2
Shining a light on the numbers to allow prompt decision making.
Once we’ve looked at every part of the business, we are often then asked to become a fully-outsourced or partly outsourced finance function. This can include accounts receivable, accounts payable, bookkeeping, management accounts, daily cash flow management, KPI dashboards, forecasting, negotiating finance, attendance at board meetings, etc. These services tend to start from £1800 per month up to £5000 per month. It simply depends on how much time you need from the principals in the business.
Phase 3
Accelerating your business progress.
Special Projects for if and when scenarios arise. This includes supporting acquisitions and mergers, selling off, and exit planning. As these come up as the business is growing, and aren’t part of the everyday, rates are bespoke and subject to discussion for the proceedings and pricing.
Our services are tailored towards each individual customer but to give an indication of the typical type of services provided across a range of price points please see below
Typical Package Make Up – 12-month Contract with 3 months’ notice prior to contract end date | Entry Prices starting from | Evolve Prices starting from | Expand Prices starting from |
One off Set Up fee for month 1 | £2,499 | £4,799 | £7,999 |
Monthly Fee thereafter for remaining 11 months, no set-up fee on renewals | £1,499pm | £2,999pm | £4,999pm |
Bank Posting and Reconciliation | Y | Y | Y |
Sales Ledger | Y | Y | Y |
Purchase Ledger | Y | Y | Y |
VAT returns | Y | Y | Y |
Reasonable Telephone/Video Conference support during office hours | Y | Y | Y |
Payment run setup and approval process | Y | Y | Y |
Payroll Management | Y | Y | |
Month End Journals | Y | Y | |
Basic Layout Management Accounts | Y | Y | |
Variance Commentary if Budget Provided | Y | Y | |
Short term Cash Flow Forecasting | Y | Y | |
Budget Creation Support | Y | Y | |
Liaison with Statutory Accounts | Y | Y | |
Enhanced Proactive Telephone/Video Conferencing Support during Office Hours | Y | Y | |
Bespoke Layout Management Accounts | Y | ||
Enhanced Budget Creation Support | Y | ||
FP&A support | Y | ||
Long Term Cash Flow Forecasting | Y | ||
Enhanced Proactive Management Support | Y | ||
Annual Statutory Accounts | N | N | N |
Tax Planning | N | N | N |
Tax Advice | N | N | N |
Bespoke Add Ons – Sample of Services that we already provide to our customers which can be picked and mixed with any package:
Part Time FD | One of our Part Time FD team focused on working with your Senior Management Team to drive growth at a strategic level. Typically, would manage all finance resource internal and/or outsourced looking to grow and mentor internal staff or to build a sustainable outsourced team |
Business Planning | Building Financial Models that support strategic goals |
Scenario Building | An extension of Business Planning, allowing for multiple scenarios to be considered before making decisions |
Tech Stack Support Building | A review of finance related Tech, with recommendations on changes or improvements to drive better efficiency with in your business, implementation recommendation. |
Tech Stack implementation | We are not an IT Firm but we do have experience and knowledge in a wide range of products which allows us to carryout implementations , where we do not have the experience we use our network to find the best partners to do this for you. |
Process Mapping/implementation | This is especially useful for business on a growth trajectory that may at some time involve an exit plan, by looking at companywide processes, mapping these or creating processes where they do not exist businesses increase the Sale Value to potential buyers. |
Regular Bespoke Reporting | Customers may have regular reporting requirements such as flash reporting or expense reporting and analysis this can be combined into any package. |
P11D Reporting | Collation of Data and creation and submission of P11D |
Enhanced Proactive Management Support | A step towards Part-Time FD, this delivers support from an experienced Senior Finance Manager/Business Partner who has operational experience. |
CT61 Reporting | For companies who have interest payments made to non-domestic funders. |
National Statistic Office Survey Reporting | A regular chore for some business owners |
Cash Management | Create payment runs in line with payments policy , gain approval from customer to pay, create and or send payments as directed. |
Credit Control Services | Cash flow is so important and debt collection forms a big part of this, for sensitive credit control that considers the impact to ongoing business v the need to maintain strong cash flow. |
Finding the right partners for Fund Raising | Non-investment Finance eg banking partners or right product to apply for and support the business with information for the application process. |
Companies House Filings | Basic company secretarial work such as Confirmation Statement Filings, updates to shareholder details, etc. |
Audit Support | For those companies that choose to have an annual audit or are required to have one , we manage the relationship with the Auditor to ensure smooth audit process with minimum distraction to business owners and other senior managers |
Group Accounting | Consolidated Group Management Accounts, intercompany reconciliation , inter-company transactions. |
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