We keep your books, or we review the ones you keep.
Books that are up to date are not an administrative chore to endure once a year. They are what lets you know, in September, whether you can afford to hire.
You keep nothing, or you keep everything. Either suits us.
You send us your documents and we do the rest: data entry, matching, bank reconciliation, receivables and payables, VAT returns, interim accounts, year-end close. You touch nothing and you look at your figures whenever you like.
You do the entry yourself and we check it. We pick up what is wrong before it costs you: an account that never clears, a misapplied VAT code, a forgotten depreciation. And we close the year. It costs less, provided you are consistent.
- Entry of purchases, sales and expenses
- Bank and credit card reconciliation
- Receivables and payables, with the age of each balance
- Quarterly or half-yearly VAT returns, and their filing
- Interim accounts on request — monthly, quarterly, or whenever the bank asks
- Year-end entries: depreciation, provisions, accruals
- Annual accounts and notes compliant with Swiss accounting law
A year-end close should never be a surprise.
If it is, the books were not kept during the year. We work the other way round: the accounts are always current, so the close merely confirms what you already knew. And the tax trade-offs are prepared in October, not in March when it is too late.
When does full double-entry bookkeeping become mandatory?
In Switzerland, any entity listed in the commercial register must keep full accounts once its annual turnover reaches CHF 500,000. Below that, a sole proprietorship may limit itself to a statement of income, expenses and assets — so-called simplified accounting.
How long must documents be kept?
Ten years from the end of the financial year. Electronic storage is allowed, provided the documents remain legible and unalterable throughout.
Can books be taken over mid-year?
Yes, and it is common. We take over the balances at the transfer date, we check what was done before, and we tell you what we find — including when it does not flatter the previous firm.
And if several years are behind?
That is half the files that come to us. We work through them in order, oldest first, and deal first with what costs money: assessments made by default and the late-payment interest running on them.
Tell us where you stand.
The volume of documents, the legal form, the number of employees, the state of the accounts. Eight questions and you have an estimate.