Outsourced accounting solutions
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Outsourced accounting solutions
“BRAL continues to be our natural choice for all of our accounting and tax needs, especially for our new ventures” Sandy Chiu, Controller for Silicon Valley Bank UK
Introduction BRAL Limited is a London based, market leading provider of financial outsourcing solutions. We look after overseas owned companies setting up operations outside their home territories, as well as small and medium-sized UK owner managed businesses. Our commitment to people, technology and processes has resulted in a client base of exceptional quality across a wide range of industry sectors. We look after the finance and accounting functions, allowing business owners and management to focus on growing their businesses.
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We are able to draw upon the experience and expertise of our founding firm, Blick Rothenberg, a leading independent firm of chartered accountants and a member of BKR International, an association of independent accounting and business advisory firms with representation in over 70 countries around the world.
What we do BRAL offers the advantage of sophisticated, multi-lingual accounting and administration without the worry, hassle and expense of running such a department in-house. We understand your need to receive timely and reliable management accounting information in an appropriate format. We are aware of the importance of prompt payment of staff salaries and amounts due to your suppliers. We are conscious of the difficulties of ensuring prompt cash collection from your customers or clients. These accounting and administrative functions are crucial, yet time consuming, and can mean that you are distracted from core business tasks such as developing and selling your product or service.
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You can elect to use as many or as few of our services as your business requires. We assign a dedicated and committed team of people to run the ‘back office’ for each client and quickly become part of your team, enabling you to achieve a reduction in fixed overheads and vast savings in time.
We look after the company, you do the business
Our services • Bookkeeping and preparation of management accounts • VAT compliance, UK and cross-border • European VAT reclaim • Payroll • Financial administration • Sales invoicing • Cash management and projections • Sales ledger/receivables management • Purchase ledger/payables management • International payments • Centrally managed accounting solutions for worldwide subsidiaries
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• Construction industry scheme compliance
People
Technology
Our people are at the very heart of what we do and are essential to our business excellence framework. Our employees come from different backgrounds and cultures and bring a wealth of experience and expertise. With skills in over 20 languages, we can communicate effectively with our clients in the UK, across Europe and around the world. BRAL holds the nationally recognised Investors in People accreditation, reflecting the investment we make in our people and the commitment we have to providing our clients with a first class service.
BRAL’s leading edge technology infrastructure is critical to the effective delivery of our financial outsourcing solutions. eBRAL is our online accounting client portal that allows full, interactive access to up-to-the-minute accounting information and reports such as bank statements, cash positions, copy invoices, accounts reports, etc. It gives our clients global access to their accounts, 24 hours a day with unprecedented levels of security through encryption technology (Aventail’s award-winning SSL VPN token authentication).
“There is a clear mission in place for the organisation – providing prompt, efficient and technically excellent, customer focused outsourced accounting services” Highlighted by the assessor for the Investors in People standard.
Processes Together with our people and technology, our processes are an integral part of our business excellence framework. We have in place a quality management system to ensure complete client satisfaction. Our best practice team is responsible for ensuring that effective and efficient processes are in place. Benchmark targets are set for our processes and in addition to our internal audit, we also receive external checks on our processes from three independent audits, namely the ISO audit, SAS 70 Type II audit and the audit of our accounts. Our ISO 9001:2008 and SAS 70 Type II accreditations are testament to the importance we place on delivering a high quality service.
“Our SAS 70 Type II and ISO 9001:2008 certifications are independent verifications of the systems and processes that we have in place to ensure that our clients’ financial information is accurate and secure”
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Jim Brown, Managing Director of BRAL.
“The eBRAL system means that we can approve online multi-departmental invoices, which allows us to make our reporting incredibly relevant to our requirements” Eric Gray, Senior Vice President of Finance, E! Entertainment Television.
For more details If you would like further information, in the first instance please contact: Jim Brown Telephone: +44 (0)20 7544 8777 Email: [email protected]
12 York Gate Regent’s Park London NW1 4QS United Kingdom
Business support • Accounting • Payroll • VAT • Financial administration
Tel: +44 (0)20 7487 3886 Fax: +44 (0)20 7224 0553 Email: [email protected] Web: www.bral.com
Outsourced accounting solutions
“BRAL continues to be our natural choice for all of our accounting and tax needs, especially for our new ventures” Sandy Chiu, Controller for Silicon Valley Bank UK
Introduction BRAL Limited is a London based, market leading provider of financial outsourcing solutions. We look after overseas owned companies setting up operations outside their home territories, as well as small and medium-sized UK owner managed businesses. Our commitment to people, technology and processes has resulted in a client base of exceptional quality across a wide range of industry sectors. We look after the finance and accounting functions, allowing business owners and management to focus on growing their businesses.
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We are able to draw upon the experience and expertise of our founding firm, Blick Rothenberg, a leading independent firm of chartered accountants and a member of BKR International, an association of independent accounting and business advisory firms with representation in over 70 countries around the world.
What we do BRAL offers the advantage of sophisticated, multi-lingual accounting and administration without the worry, hassle and expense of running such a department in-house. We understand your need to receive timely and reliable management accounting information in an appropriate format. We are aware of the importance of prompt payment of staff salaries and amounts due to your suppliers. We are conscious of the difficulties of ensuring prompt cash collection from your customers or clients. These accounting and administrative functions are crucial, yet time consuming, and can mean that you are distracted from core business tasks such as developing and selling your product or service.
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You can elect to use as many or as few of our services as your business requires. We assign a dedicated and committed team of people to run the ‘back office’ for each client and quickly become part of your team, enabling you to achieve a reduction in fixed overheads and vast savings in time.
We look after the company, you do the business
Our services • Bookkeeping and preparation of management accounts • VAT compliance, UK and cross-border • European VAT reclaim • Payroll • Financial administration • Sales invoicing • Cash management and projections • Sales ledger/receivables management • Purchase ledger/payables management • International payments • Centrally managed accounting solutions for worldwide subsidiaries
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• Construction industry scheme compliance
People
Technology
Our people are at the very heart of what we do and are essential to our business excellence framework. Our employees come from different backgrounds and cultures and bring a wealth of experience and expertise. With skills in over 20 languages, we can communicate effectively with our clients in the UK, across Europe and around the world. BRAL holds the nationally recognised Investors in People accreditation, reflecting the investment we make in our people and the commitment we have to providing our clients with a first class service.
BRAL’s leading edge technology infrastructure is critical to the effective delivery of our financial outsourcing solutions. eBRAL is our online accounting client portal that allows full, interactive access to up-to-the-minute accounting information and reports such as bank statements, cash positions, copy invoices, accounts reports, etc. It gives our clients global access to their accounts, 24 hours a day with unprecedented levels of security through encryption technology (Aventail’s award-winning SSL VPN token authentication).
“There is a clear mission in place for the organisation – providing prompt, efficient and technically excellent, customer focused outsourced accounting services” Highlighted by the assessor for the Investors in People standard.
Processes Together with our people and technology, our processes are an integral part of our business excellence framework. We have in place a quality management system to ensure complete client satisfaction. Our best practice team is responsible for ensuring that effective and efficient processes are in place. Benchmark targets are set for our processes and in addition to our internal audit, we also receive external checks on our processes from three independent audits, namely the ISO audit, SAS 70 Type II audit and the audit of our accounts. Our ISO 9001:2008 and SAS 70 Type II accreditations are testament to the importance we place on delivering a high quality service.
“Our SAS 70 Type II and ISO 9001:2008 certifications are independent verifications of the systems and processes that we have in place to ensure that our clients’ financial information is accurate and secure”
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Jim Brown, Managing Director of BRAL.
“The eBRAL system means that we can approve online multi-departmental invoices, which allows us to make our reporting incredibly relevant to our requirements” Eric Gray, Senior Vice President of Finance, E! Entertainment Television.
For more details If you would like further information, in the first instance please contact: Jim Brown Telephone: +44 (0)20 7544 8777 Email: [email protected]
12 York Gate Regent’s Park London NW1 4QS United Kingdom
Business support • Accounting • Payroll • VAT • Financial administration
Tel: +44 (0)20 7487 3886 Fax: +44 (0)20 7224 0553 Email: [email protected] Web: www.bral.com
