Glasgow Office & UK-Wide Advisory

Business Planning & Advisory Services in Glasgow

QA FinTax provides business planning and advisory services in Glasgow — management accounts, growth planning, R&D tax credits, restructuring and exit planning. We help owners understand their numbers and plan the tax consequences of a decision before they make it, not after.

Compliance tells you what happened last year. Advisory changes what happens next year. The decisions that actually move a business — whether to incorporate, when to invest, how to structure a sale, whether your work qualifies for R&D relief — all have to be made before the event. Our Glasgow advisory team works alongside owners as a genuine thinking partner, with the numbers to back the judgement.

What Does Our Advisory Service Cover?

Strategic and financial support beyond the annual return — from monthly management accounts to R&D claims and exit planning. Choose the area below for the full detail.

Numbers You Can Act On

Statutory accounts arrive up to a year after the event. Management accounts arrive monthly, while you can still change the outcome. We pair the figures with plain-English commentary, so you are reading a story about your business, not a spreadsheet.

Planning & Advisory — Choose Your Service

Specialist Business & Tax Advisory

Proactive tax structuring, growth modelling and strategic guidance from Glasgow-based consultants.

  • Management accounts and virtual CFO support
  • R&D tax relief claims under the merged RDEC and ERIS schemes
  • Group restructuring, mergers, acquisitions and demergers
Specialist Business & Tax Advisory in Glasgow

R&D Tax Credits

Robust R&D tax relief claims under the merged RDEC and ERIS schemes, with the technical narrative HMRC now expects.

  • Free R&D eligibility assessment
  • Identification of qualifying projects and expenditure
  • Claims under the merged RDEC scheme and ERIS
R&D Tax Credits in Glasgow

Startup & New Business Advice

Get the setup right from day one — structure, company formation, HMRC registration and the habits that save tax later.

  • Sole trader vs limited company advice for your situation
  • Company formation at Companies House
  • HMRC registration — Self Assessment, Corporation Tax, PAYE, VAT
Startup & New Business Advice in Glasgow

Corporate Finance

Expert guidance on the big deals — selling, buying, raising investment, management buyouts and business valuations.

  • Business sales and disposals
  • Acquisitions and mergers
  • Management buyouts (MBO) and buy-ins (MBI)
Corporate Finance in Glasgow

Planning & Advisory in Glasgow — FAQs

They help you make decisions before you make them: giving you monthly numbers you can act on, modelling the tax and cash impact of a choice, spotting reliefs you qualify for, and telling you honestly when an idea will not work. It is the opposite of a once-a-year compliance service.
Standard accountancy is backward-looking and compliance-driven — it records and files. Advisory is forward-looking and decision-driven. Both matter, but only advisory changes your future tax bill and your growth trajectory.
At least two to three years out. Business Asset Disposal Relief generally requires you to have met the qualifying conditions for two years before a sale, and a buyer's due diligence will surface issues that take time to fix. Planning late usually costs more than it saves.

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