Hi,
I'm self-employed for less than five years but have never approached an accountant and have just kept a rough record of expenses and what not on a spreadsheet. This is an area that needs urgent attention so I'm looking to pay for someone to handle the returns etc for this year.
But in the meantime I'd like to get things in some sort of order by working through the spreadsheet I have. In terms of accounting software, I'm going to have a route around some of the cloud based options. What's good out there? There may not be a need for me to have such software but to be honest I'm sick of not knowing exactly where I am with regards to income/expenditure and a spreadsheet doesn't seem to give me what I'm looking for.
What I'm wondering is what do I need to have ready for a first sit down with an accountant? Is it worth my time importing a load of data from these spreadsheets into some software? My concern would be that some of this data might not be correct, as in, it's been classified as an asset when it should have been an expense and so on.
Also, typical rate for an accountant for someone with revenue of <100k? I'm thinking it's around to 500 euro mark but I might be way off with that.
Thanks.