It is a small company with three directors and five employees
Books prepared by the primary director. Some errors were made by accountant transferring the information over into his accounts package, others I can only see them as careless errors.
1. First error by the accountant, which he has confirmed as his mistake,
the accountant advised us on the PRSI class for the non-proprietary directors, so we paid employers prsi when we should not have... not too bad as can claim it back for the past few years.
2. Incorrectly applied tax bands so we under paid tax for past few years.
3. Submitted paper work late when they were signed off in time.
4. Completed nominal accounts for VAT but over looked an underpayment for a few years until I found it now. He agreed it was incorrect.
5. Over looked the depreciation of one fixed asset.
6. Added up invoice totals incorrectly... Not too bad as can sort it out in this years accounts
They are all small annoying things that have sucked so much of my time over the past few months when it could be spent elsewhere. I really feel sore that the accountant had already been paid and now I have to re do his job. These sort of errors are not obvious from the final years accounts.... or as directors are we supposed to go over them line by line, and look at all the transactions behind them?
Should I even bother trying to get money back off the accountant or should I just go elsewhere?