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Partners to Business · Sandyford, Dublin 18

You should never be the one who remembers the deadline.

PTB Accounting run the finance function for Irish businesses: the bookkeeping and reporting, the VAT and payroll filings, the tax planning, and a finance director on the days you need one. You get the numbers early enough to act on them.

Who we work with StartupsMultinationalsSmall and mid-sized businessesIndependent businesses
The filing year

The whole year, and where you are in it

Every month carries payroll and RCT. VAT lands in six of them. October carries the income tax return. Corporation tax moves with your own year end.

  1. JANVAT 3
    PAYE
    RCT
  2. FEBPAYE
    RCT
  3. MARVAT 3
    PAYE
    RCT
  4. APRPAYE
    RCT
  5. MAYVAT 3
    PAYE
    RCT
  6. JUNPAYE
    RCT
  7. JULVAT 3
    PAYE
    RCT
  8. AUGPAYE
    RCT
  9. SEPVAT 3
    PAYE
    RCT
  10. OCTForm 11
    PAYE
    RCT
  11. NOVVAT 3
    PAYE
    RCT
  12. DECPAYE
    RCT

Standard Revenue dates for filing and paying through ROS. Your own obligations depend on how the business is registered, and PTB confirm the ones that actually apply to you.

How it starts

Four stages, and the first one is just a conversation

Taken from the process PTB publish. Most firms open with a proposal. This opens with a question, which is the part that decides whether the rest is worth doing.

  1. 01

    We start by listening

    A first conversation about how the finance function runs today, what it produces, and where it hurts. Nothing is proposed until that is clear.

  2. 02

    Then we go through the numbers

    Data gathered, processes audited, and the places where time and money are leaking identified and written down.

  3. 03

    A plan you can actually follow

    A roadmap for the work, sequenced so the business keeps running while it happens.

  4. 04

    And we do the work

    Hands on delivery rather than a document handed over. The team stays involved through implementation.

What we do

Three things, and they hold each other up

Most firms will file your returns. The reason the filings are late, or wrong, or a scramble, is usually further upstream, in how the numbers get produced in the first place. PTB work on both ends.

01

Process and systems

Financial workflows, reporting and internal controls, set up so they scale and stay compliant. This is the upstream work that stops the downstream fire.

02

Financial management and advice

Cash flow, profitability and the decisions that hang off them. Insight you can act on rather than a set of accounts that tells you what already happened.

03

Tax and compliance

RCT, VAT, corporation tax planning and the rest of the regulatory load, handled properly and on time.

The services

Six ways firms bring us in

01

Outsourcing

Hand the accounting and financial processes to a team that does this all day. You keep the oversight and lose the administration.

02

Compliance

The legal and regulatory frameworks, navigated by people who know where the traps are, so nothing arrives as a surprise.

03

Process optimisation

Find where the finance function leaks time and accuracy, then close the gaps. Usually the highest-return work we do.

04

Deal advisory

Support for investors and businesses through acquisitions, restructures and transitions, including the accounting work an acquisition creates.

05

Tax planning

Proactive tax strategy that complies fully and is thought about in advance rather than at the filing deadline.

06

Interim and fractional finance leadership

A finance director for the days you need one. Full senior capability without a full time senior salary.

An acquisition doesn't wait for your finance function to catch up. PTB were brought in to hold the accounting through the transition: the general support, the setup, the tax advice, and the reporting the leadership team needed while it was happening.
Summarised from a client testimonial published on ptb.ie
Why firms call

The pattern is nearly always the same. Something changes faster than the finance function can absorb: a funding round, an acquisition, a jump in headcount, a departure. The filings are still due on the same dates regardless.

That is the moment a firm needs capacity and judgment at the same time, which is exactly what is hardest to hire quickly.

The team

Who you would actually be dealing with

A small senior team rather than a large junior one, working out of Workhub in Sandyford.

CZChanglong ZhuManaging Director
PJPierce JamesPartner, Consultancy
MSMo ShenPortfolio Manager
BMBarry MullenTax Partner, External
KRKanglan RuanAssociate
SCSophia Sufei ChenAssociate
Talk to us

Start with a discovery call

Bring the thing that is currently costing you the most time. Usually that conversation is enough to tell whether we are the right fit, and it costs nothing either way.

Call 01 578 7130
  • Telephone01 578 7130
  • Emailinfo@ptb.ie
  • OfficeWorkhub, 51 Bracken Road, Sandyford, Dublin 18, D18 CV48
  • HoursMonday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm