Nine months and a penalty
Every UK company has to file its accounts nine months after its financial year ends. Miss that date, and the fine is automatic.
Every figure is cited on screen. Company examples are fictional specimens.
Music: Inspired by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0
Transcript
- 0:01
Every UK company has to file its accounts nine months after its financial year ends. Miss that date, and the fine is automatic.
- 0:13
And it climbs fast. Up to a month late, a hundred and fifty pounds. One to three months, three hundred and seventy-five. Three to six months, seven hundred and fifty. More than six months late, fifteen hundred pounds. File late two years running, and the whole lot doubles.
- 0:34
Here is the part most people miss. That deadline is public. Every company on the record carries its own date, visible to anybody, months before it arrives.
- 0:48
So if you are an accountant, or a bookkeeper, you already know exactly who is about to have a difficult month. Sixty days out is the moment. Late enough that they are thinking about it. Early enough that you can still help.
- 1:05
And the email almost writes itself, because you are not pitching anything. You are pointing at a date they already know is coming, and offering to make it somebody else’s problem.
- 1:20
The best first email is not a pitch. It is a reminder, with an offer attached.
About this film
Nine months and a penalty runs 1:27, read by Cillian and appears on Leadistry's Blog page. The full narration is above in 6 sections, so you can read it instead of watching if that is quicker. Every figure shown on screen comes from the Companies House public record or a named published source, and the companies used as examples are fictional specimens rather than real customers.