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GARDEN CENTRES, NURSERIES AND FLORISTS
Are you a garden centre, nursery or florist owner based in rural England? Look no further than Roake & Cook, attentive chartered accountants who bring a modern approach to rural accounting.
Specialising in serving rural businesses like yours, who value the countryside they live and work in and want to see it flourish.
Roake & Cook is deeply invested in helping your business grow as sustainably as the plants you grow and sell. As a small firm with a big heart, we take pride in offering you personalised attention.
Our services cater to every step of the garden centre, nursery and florist supply chain.
Deeply invested in your success
In addition to our core services, we offer expertise in various specialist accounting tasks tailored to your specific needs.
Our team can assist you in pricing strategies, ensuring your products are accurately priced to cover costs while maintaining a relevant gross margin. We also streamline payment systems, making it effortless for your customers to make payments while effectively tracking invoicing and monitoring late payments, ensuring your cash flow remains steady.
Our accounting support extends to managing events, meticulously tracking costs and evaluating their overall profitability. If you have employees, we handle payroll efficiently, ensuring your staff is paid accurately and on time.
We can also help you keep a close eye on-premises costs, ensuring your expenditures are well-managed. And our expertise in stock management ensures that your inventory is effectively controlled, minimising losses and optimising your resources.
HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW WE CAN HELP YOU:
In recent years, the floral and plant market has been impacted by the rise of online retailers,
changing consumer preferences, the threat and cost of imports, climate change and inflation.
While being green-fingered will get you a long way, it’s essential to manage your accounts to
bloom. Every petal and stem matters, and so does every pound.
Bookkeeping
In our opinion, this is one of the most crucial parts of any business. Having up-to-date and
accurate financial information is the cornerstone of all aspects of your business.
With a diverse range of products and services, it is important to understand how all areas of
your business are performing. Accurate tracking and reporting is key to having information
that allows you to make business decisions.
We provide bookkeeping services, to free up your time and let you focus on running your
business, and we also assist in implementing new software and provide training for those
who wish to do it themselves.
Stock Management
Ensuring you have the right systems and processes in place is vital to monitoring stock availability and ordering.
Having software that integrates with your bookkeeping software saves significant time and money, rather than having to rely on separate systems.
We work with you to improve these systems, providing time and money savings, as well as ensuring customers are kept happy.
Accounts
Cloud software enables us to work with you to produce accounts sooner. Gone are the days of not hearing from your accountant until a month before your accounts are due or being told your tax bill a day before it is due to be paid.
Accurate bookkeeping enables you to make business decisions. Accounts are for compliance purposes and finalising tax calculations.
Tax Services
Tax savings play a vital role in your business’s cash flow. No one wants to pay unnecessary tax, and our expert knowledge of capital allowances, tax-efficient remuneration, and tax planning opportunities helps ensure this is not the case for you.
Forecasting tax bills and building them into cash forecasts enable better decision-making and planning.
Staffing
Horticultural businesses can be labour-intensive. It is important that staff are paid accurately and on time. This helps retention and recruitment, as well as providing you with accurate financial information.
The constant changes to the National Living Wage will mean your staffing costs are increasing. We help you understand how those changes impact your bottom line and work with you to ensure systems and processes are in place to make your business as efficient as possible.
Embrace modern accounting for greater visibility and control
Take control of your finances with modern accounting. With our assistance, you can embrace your numbers and have greater visibility over your business, empowering you to make informed decisions. We use cloud-based accounting software and tools to provide you with real-time insights into your financial performance. We’ll also help you to implement best practices and streamline your accounting processes.
Deeply connected to the rural community
As part of the rural community ourselves, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that rural businesses face. You can trust us to provide insightful advice and tailored solutions that align with the specific needs of your business.
We’d love to learn more about your business and how we can help you achieve your goals.
Martin and Helen Cook
Contact Roake & Cook today to schedule a consultation and experience the difference a modern approach to rural accounting can make.
Our husband and wife team brings a personal touch to our services. We genuinely care about our clients and go above and beyond to deliver exceptional service. You won’t be treated like just another number; instead, you’ll experience the warmth and dedication that comes from working with a team that genuinely values your success.
Building lasting relationships is at the heart of what we do.
Here are some examples of clients we have in the Garden Centres Nurseries and Florist Businesses industry and some key examples of how we have helped them:
Andy, Garden Centre
Andy owns a garden centre, he was looking to make his financials as efficient as possible and wanted someone to take on payroll, assist with changing the bookkeeping system and to prepare the year end accounts and tax return.
Due to the seasonal nature of the business Andy wanted his bookkeeping to be more update to help with cashflow planning in the less busy times of the trading year. We helped to migrate the garden centres financial information from a desktop software to Xero and set up live feeds for the bank account.
As part of the migration, we reviewed their current bookkeeping processes so that we could also provide tailored training to the business owner and internal bookkeeper so that they could get Xero set up to work most efficiently for their needs.
By taking on the payroll and helping to set up the new bookkeeping system we now have up to date knowledge and figures on the business. This makes creating the year end accounts and tax return a much quicker process with less queries which saves time for everyone involved.
FAQS SPECIFIC TO GARDEN CENTRES, NURSERIES AND FLORISTS
How can I keep track of the different income streams in my business?
We understand that most rural businesses have diversified their operations, particularly so with garden centres. Keeping track of each part of your business is key in understanding where cashflow issues are arising, or if there is an underperforming part of the business.
Through the use of enterprise tracking, up to date and accurate bookkeeping, and easy to understand financial reporting, we help clients monitor, measure and track each part of their business.
Accurate bookkeeping is a must for any business, but knowing how to use those numbers is key.
Labour costs and supply are a constant battle, what can I do?
With minimum wage rates and tax changes constantly changing, ensuring you are on top of these is vital in ensuring employees are paid correctly and all reporting is completed on time.
Accurate payroll helps reduce employee turnover rates, and forecasting can help understand how changes to wage rates and taxes will impact your business when they come into play.
Fluctuating energy costs, along with inflation, make it hard to estimate cashflow. Can you help?
Yes, we can. Firstly, accurate and up to date bookkeeping ensures you understand how your business is performing in real-time, not weeks or months down the line.
Secondly, forecasting with scenario planning can help you predict how changing costs will impact your business in the coming months and years.
No forecast can be 100% accurate, but it provides planning opportunities.
We also have access to an energy broker, who can often beat market rates by 10% or more.