Bookkeeping and payroll for local trade
A small neighbourhood office that writes up the books of the shops, workshops and one-person businesses a short walk from its door — the monthly close, reconciliation down to the line, small payrolls, and the filing that keeps every figure attached to the document behind it.
Bookkeeping is a small number of jobs done in the same order every month. These are the ones this office does, and it does them on a date that holds.
Every month is closed on a fixed date rather than whenever the paperwork happens to arrive. Sales, purchases, bank movement, card settlements and petty cash are entered, coded and reconciled, and the month is signed off with a short set of figures somebody can actually read.
Bank accounts, card terminals and any payment account are reconciled against the ledger every month, line by line, until the two agree. Where a line has no document behind it, it stays queried rather than being quietly coded to something plausible.
Small payrolls run on the same rhythm: hours in, deductions calculated, payslips issued, the filing prepared, and the amounts due listed before the date they fall due. Starters, leavers and changed contracts are handled with their paperwork in the same pass.
Invoices, receipts, statements and payroll records are logged, filed in the order they will be asked for, and kept for the retention period that applies to each kind. What arrives on paper stays retrievable; what arrives on a screen is printed to a stable copy and filed with the rest.
A ledger that stopped being written up six or twelve months ago is picked up from the last month that reconciles and brought forward in order, one month at a time, rather than reconstructed backwards from a single total.
At the end of the year the ledger is turned into a pack the accountant or preparer who signs the return can work from without asking twelve questions: reconciled balances, the asset list, the items still open, and the documents supporting each of them.
Before anything is agreed, we ask what the business does, how many bank accounts and card terminals it runs, whether anybody is on the payroll, and how far behind the books are. That is what decides whether this office is the right one for the job at all.
The first meeting happens in person: at the office, or at your counter after closing if that costs less than shutting the shop for an hour. It is booked into a window with a call ahead, so nobody is waiting on a doorstep.
We go through the statements together, find the last month where the ledger and the bank agreed, and mark what is missing after it. Nothing is entered on the day: the day is for finding out what is actually there.
What was found, what is missing, which closing date will hold and who sends what to whom goes into a written summary. You get a copy, and it is written so another bookkeeper could pick it up and carry on.
The round is built around the office address, Henri Barbuse 4, 6400 Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria, and the streets within a short walk or drive of it. If you are unsure whether yours is inside that circle, ask before you plan anything: the answer is a yes or a no, never a maybe.
Where a business sits outside the round, we will say so and point you to an office that covers it, rather than quietly adding half a morning of travel to every handover of documents.
Small local trade, mostly: shops, workshops, kitchens, single-site practices, sole traders and households with a couple of rental units. Groups with subsidiaries, several currencies or consolidated statements belong with a firm that does that work every week rather than twice a year.
In person for the first meeting, for the handover of documents, and again whenever a month refuses to agree. The routine entry and reconciliation happen at the office in between, which is precisely why the round is drawn tightly around it.
It is built around the office address and the streets within a short walk or drive of it. If you are unsure whether yours sits inside that circle, ask before you plan anything: the answer is a yes or a no, never a maybe.
It is the most common reason somebody walks in, and it is a job rather than a crisis. Catching up starts from the last month that reconciles and moves forward in order, and it is scoped separately from the monthly work so a backlog stays visible.
You keep the originals unless you ask the office to hold them; either way an indexed copy stays here for the retention period that applies to each kind of record. If you leave, the index and the copies leave with you.
No. This is a bookkeeping and payroll office. An audit needs an independent auditor, a return needs the professional who signs it, and anything that amounts to legal or investment advice belongs to somebody licensed to give it. We say which is which rather than blurring the line.
The ledger is closed, reconciled and turned into a pack for whoever signs the return, with a note of what was assumed and what is still open. If you already work with an accountant, they receive the pack in the form they ask for.
In writing, before the first month is touched: what is in scope, what is not, which dates are fixed, and what has to reach the office by when. Nothing is billed that was not agreed first, and the scope does not move partway through a month without being written down again.
Write to contact@wickerbookkeeping.online or call . Tell us what the business does, how many accounts it runs, whether anybody is on the payroll and roughly how far behind the books are — that is enough for a first reply.
This is a bookkeeping and payroll office. It does not audit, it does not sign returns, and nothing published here is legal, tax or investment advice.