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Outsourced finance for UK SMEs

Your finance function.
Without the headcount.

Quidstone runs your books, your management accounts and your forecasting as one managed service — the clarity of an in-house finance team, at a fraction of the cost of hiring one.

9+
Years in UK corporate finance
4
Specialist sectors
48h
Typical first-draft turnaround
The growth-stage gap

Most SMEs outgrow their bookkeeper before they can afford a finance team.

Every growing business hits the same stage: the books are getting done, but nobody's turning them into decisions — and a full finance hire is still a stretch. Quidstone is built for exactly that gap. Clean books and the forward view, one team, one monthly fee.

What you get

One team. The whole finance stack.

Bookkeeping

Day-to-day records, reconciliations, payroll and VAT — kept clean, current and deadline-safe.

Management accounts

Monthly reporting your team can read at a glance — what happened, why, and where it's heading.

FP&A & forecasting

Budgets, cashflow, scenario models and variance analysis — the numbers that drive decisions.

Board & lender reporting

Board packs, investor updates and covenant reporting — clear, structured and on time.

Sectors we know

Finance run by people who understand your business.

The bundle is the same. The fluency isn't. We go deep in four sectors where the numbers have their own rules — and work with good-fit SMEs beyond them too.

Not in one of these? We work with SMEs across industries — tell us what you need.

The real cost of in-house

A finance hire costs more than the salary.

The salary is only half the bill. Add employer NI, pension, software, cover and the weeks spent hiring, and one in-house finance person clears £54,000 a year — before they've opened a spreadsheet. Quidstone covers more, for a fraction of it, with nothing to recruit and no on-costs.

One in-house hire
Base salary (bookkeeper / mgmt accountant)£40,000
Employer NI @ 15%£5,250
Pension (auto-enrolment)£1,200
Recruitment, software, training, cover£8,000+
True annual cost£54,000+
Quidstone
Bookkeeping
Management accounts
FP&A & forecasting
Board & lender reporting
One monthly fee, no on-costsfrom £6k/yr

Figures are indicative of UK loaded employment cost (salary plus employer NI, pension and overhead). Your fee depends on size and scope — see below.

Pricing

Priced to the way your business scales.

Transparent starting points, not a black box. We scope the exact fee on a short call — but here's where each sector begins.

Care homes
From
£500
per home, per month
vs a £54k+ in-house hire
Property
From
£1,000
per active entity, per month
reduced rate for dormant SPVs
Franchise
From
£250
per store, per month
network consolidation included
Marketing tech
From
£750
per month, by revenue
scales with stage, not entities
How it works

Project or ongoing. No lock-in, cancel anytime.

01

Brief

A 15-minute call or a short email. Tell us what you run and what's missing.

02

Scope & quote

A fixed monthly fee back within 24 hours. No surprises, no tie-in.

03

Onboard

We take the books off your hands and set up reporting around your business.

04

Run

Clean books and a monthly pack you'll actually use. We're here between cycles too.

Why Quidstone

Built and run by a finance operator, not a call centre.

Real corporate finance

Nine-plus years inside UK FP&A and controllership — the same discipline a large company's finance team brings, sized for an SME.

One point of contact

You deal with the person doing the work. No account-management layer, no handoffs, no chasing.

Confidential & discreet

Your numbers stay yours. Clear scope, clear fee, and a relationship you can end whenever you choose.

Let's talk numbers.

No pitch decks, no sales calls. Tell us what you need and we'll come back with a clear, fixed-fee proposal within 24 hours.

We typically respond within 24 hours.