About Us

Construction accountants based in Cannock, working across the UK

We Are Expand Accounts

Expand Accounts is a construction accountancy practice. We work with UK construction limited companies turning over between £500,000 and £5 million.

Construction accounting is not general accounting with a hard hat on. CIS deductions, the VAT domestic reverse charge, retentions and long contract cycles all behave differently to any other sector. A generalist accountant learns them on your time and at your cost.

Construction Only

We already know how CIS works, when the reverse charge applies and what retentions do to a set of accounts. That means fewer questions back to you, and advice that reflects how construction businesses actually get paid.

We work with clients across the whole of the UK. Everything runs on cloud accounting, so where you are makes no difference to how well we can support you.

CIS Done Properly

Verification, monthly returns, deduction statements and year end. Handled for you rather than handed back as a job list.

Job Level Costing

You should be able to see which jobs made money and which ones quietly did not. Most contractors cannot.

Cash Flow You Can Plan From

A forecast you actually use, built around retentions, payment terms and the VAT you owe.

Plain Answers

No jargon and no waiting three weeks for a reply. If you ask a question you get an answer you can act on.

How We Work

Built For Construction, Not Adapted For It

Most accountants take a general practice and bolt construction onto it. We started the other way round. Everything we do assumes CIS, retentions and job costing from the outset.

Do you want to grow your business?

we can do it together