We have experience working with both Edtech & SaaS companies, so we can offer a level of support dependent on what stage your business is at. Whether you’re an early stage startup looking to offer a Freemium model to build a customer base or an established company focusing on user retention. We can take care of your basic compliance needs or we can offer a fully outsourced finance function and other value-add services dependent on your requirements. Just as you look to unlock potential with your users, we’ll look to unlock the potential of your business.

Our experience in e-commerce allows us to use and advise you on cloud-accounting software, integrations and outsourcing options that allow you to operate efficiently and scale up. We’re able to provide timely management information that keeps you informed on your business performance and we can use our expertise to highlight financial KPI’s that are pertinent for e-commerce businesses such as your average order value. We’re always just a phone call away should you need to speak to us.

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Whether this is the compliance work of preparing your annual accounts, the day-to-day work of bookkeeping and payroll or value add work such as claiming R&D relief or retaining key staff through share incentive schemes, we’re here to help our fintech clients grow their business.

If you’re a start up or growing foodtech business, we have the experience and expertise to support your business as it grows. We understand the sector and can provide a range of accountancy services to help you navigate it, from the essential compliance services to outsourcing and value-add services, we can help you flourish.

We have experience in working with start-ups in the Insurtech space and have supported them along their journey. Where our insurtech clients utilise technology and changing consumer trends, we ensure they also utilise other opportunities like tax planning, R&D claims and share incentive schemes as well as taking care of all the compliance work. Regardless of how far along you are, get in touch to discuss your business objectives and we can talk about how we can support you.

As well as working with traditional solicitors and law firms, our tech teams can also support tech companies working within this space, giving us a solid understanding of how companies in the sectors operate. We’ll take time to understand your business and advise on the services that we can provide to support you.

For modern businesses, their IT infrastructure and processes provide the backbone for their business operations, so working with the right partner for managed IT services can be crucial. However, the services for IT companies today can be very broad. Traditionally, core services may have included IT helpdesks, telecoms and more, but today’s IT companies could be offering supplementary or alternative core services such as digital transformation, bespoke software development and much, much more.

At The Smart Accountants, we have plenty of experience working with managed IT companies, from board experience through to supporting with exit planning and transactions. We can help you with automating your finance function and removing manual data entry. We can help with setting up management reporting that tracks bespoke KPIs and metrics to help you understand how each business function or contract is performing (see our guide here). We can help you retain key staff through share incentive plans. Ultimately, we can help in every aspect of accountancy and tax, but we also act as a key advisory partner to help your IT company reach its goals and ambitions.

Having a presence in Cambridge, one of the UK’s medical technology hubs, we have built up an expertise in supporting medtech companies. From the more embryonic companies relying on grants to fund them through their discovery phase through to companies with an established product to distribute, we can support you along the way as your accounting partner. We understand the common schemes that will support you, from claiming R&D relief to using schemes to retain key staff or making your company more attractive to investors.

As a SaaS company, you can be confident that we share the same values in using cloud-based software. We’ll use the best cloud-based accounting software and integrations to make your accounting and finance processes as automated and efficient as possible. This will always allow you to have access to real-time management information, which coupled with our personal expertise and advice on important SaaS KPI’s such as subscription churn and LTV, allows you to better understand your business performance and forecast your future runway.

Web 3.0, as the name alludes to, is predicted to be the third evolution of the internet. This next iteration is said to have a focus on decentralisation, which will be built on blockchain technology to allow the internet to be run and shared by users, rather than a single entity. Once viewed as science fiction, it’s also likely that the ‘metaverse’ will become more and more ‘real’.

It’s true that no one yet knows what web 3.0 and the metaverse will look like now, but there will be many tech businesses that will help shape this future and we’re keen to support them as their accountancy partners. One area that will likely be foundational to both web 3.0 and the metaverse will be cryptocurrency which is an area that we support our clients with. Our tech team works with market-leading software that connects all of your wallets and exchanges to help with portfolio tracking and tax reporting. Alongside our tax experts, we can advise you on the ever-evolving tax implications on the many different types of crypto transactions.