BlackpeakCFO™ Bookkeeping & finance systems
UK small businesses · Fixed prices in pounds · No phone call needed

Books behind? Spreadsheets everywhere? Let's get your finances sorted.

I'm Stuart Wilson, a chartered management accountant. I started in 2002 making the tea and writing the cheques at law firms, and worked my way up to Group Finance Director. Now I keep UK small businesses' books up to date, clean up the ones that have fallen behind, move finance work off spreadsheets, and build the dashboards that show you where you stand. One fixed monthly price, agreed in writing before I start.

Stuart Wilson, ACMA CGMA, chartered management accountant
Stuart Wilson, ACMA CGMA
CIMA chartered since 2013 · Seven years as Group Finance Director for a portfolio of SMEs in London · The person who reads your email does your books

From £150/month · Books up to date by the 5th of every month · No setup fee · No contract · Fixed price agreed in writing.

The First-Month Promise: one thing you can act on from your first month of clean books, or your money back.
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📖 Your books, every month By the 5th
  • JanuaryReconciled · closed 5 Feb
  • FebruaryReconciled · closed 5 Mar
  • MarchReconciled · closed 5 Apr
  • AprilReconciled · closed 5 May
  • MayClosing on 5 Jun

What is fixed-price bookkeeping?

Fixed-price bookkeeping is monthly accounting work (bank and card reconciliations, transactions sorted into a clean chart of accounts, a monthly close, and records kept ready for VAT and Making Tax Digital) delivered for one agreed monthly fee instead of an hourly rate. At BlackpeakCFO it starts at £150 a month for sole traders and landlords and £295 a month for limited companies. The work is done personally by a chartered management accountant (ACMA CGMA), and your books are closed by the 5th working day of every month.

Sound Familiar?

You started a business — not a paperwork pile. So why does it feel like the opposite?

Your books are months behind — and you keep meaning to catch up.

Receipts in a shoebox. Bank statements you haven't looked at. A bookkeeping login you've half-forgotten. You know it needs doing, but it's never the most urgent thing — until a deadline lands and suddenly it is. How many times have you told yourself "I'll sort it next month"?

You honestly don't know if you're making money.

There's cash in the account some months and none in others. You can't say what your real profit is, which jobs or products actually pay, or whether you can afford to hire. You're running your business on gut feel because nobody has ever shown you the numbers in plain English.

Tax and filing deadlines fill you with dread.

Every year the same scramble: digging out paperwork, hoping nothing's missed, bracing for a bill you didn't see coming. You shouldn't have to lose sleep over deadlines. With your books kept current and someone watching the HMRC and Companies House dates, the 31 January rush stops being a rush.

A desk buried in receipts, statements and sticky notes
5th of every month: when your books are closed and your numbers are in your inbox.
Is This You?

You run the business. You shouldn't have to run the books too.

  • Your bookkeeping is behind and you can't face catching up
  • You're not sure if your business is actually profitable
  • Tax deadlines sneak up and the bill is always a shock
  • Admin and paperwork eat hours you should spend on customers
  • You want it handled by someone you trust — in plain English
If 3+ of these hit home:

You are exactly who I built this for. You deal with me directly: a chartered management accountant, not a call centre or a rotating junior. Fixed monthly price, no surprises.

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The longer the books stay behind, the harder it gets. Here's how I fix it.

Who you would be working with

I have done every job in a finance team. Now I build the systems that take the manual work out.

I started at the bottom in 2002, making the tea and writing the cheques at law firms. I spent seven years in fund accounting, became a Financial Controller, qualified with CIMA in 2013, and spent seven years as Group Finance Director for a portfolio of small businesses in London.

Along the way I moved fund accounting off spreadsheets and onto the Linedata and Thomson Reuters platforms, and in 2018 I started writing code. I built this website and the systems behind it myself. That is the combination you get: someone who knows how a small business finance function really works, and who can build the fix as well as spot the problem.

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  1. 2002

    Law firms

    First job: making the tea and coffee, and writing the cheques.

  2. 2005 to 2012

    Fund accounting

    Fund Accountant at Citigroup in Edinburgh, Specialist Fund Accountant at ABN AMRO Mellon, then head of fund accounting.

  3. 2012 to 2014

    Financial Controller

    Arle Capital Partners, London. Built a forecasting model in Python. CIMA chartered in 2013.

  4. 2017 to 2024

    Group Finance Director

    Seven years running finance for a portfolio of SMEs in London. From 2017 to 2018 I was also Finance Director at Bancroft Private Equity in Vienna.

  5. 2025

    BlackpeakCFO

    After a year as Group Finance Manager at Clyde Blowers Capital, I started my own practice for UK small businesses.

Your First 30 Days

What changes in your first 30 days.

You stop worrying about the books. You start running your business with numbers you can actually trust. Here's how it goes.

1

Day 1 — I See Where Things Stand

Within 48 hours, you'll have a clear picture: what's behind, what's missing, and a simple plan to get it sorted. All I need is view-only access to your bank and bookkeeping. No long onboarding. No forms. No fuss.

2

Week 1 — Your Books Are Clean and Current

I check every account against your bank, fix anything put in the wrong place, and tidy your books so they make sense. I chase down anything that looks odd and explain what matters. You get clarity, not a spreadsheet to puzzle over.

3

Month 1 — You Finally Know Where You Stand

Your first monthly report lands in your inbox — your profit and cash explained in plain English, plus what it means for the months ahead. For the first time, you'll actually want to read a report about your own business.

A clear monthly report by the 5th, every month, with a note on what moved and why, and a call if you want one. No surprises. No jargon. Just numbers you can act on.

By day 30, you know exactly where your business stands.

Prices in pounds

Every price published.
Agreed in writing before I start.

Fixed price, fixed scope, delivered in one to five days or on a monthly cycle. No meetings unless you want one: an onboarding form, email, and recorded walkthroughs. Prices exclude VAT.

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Finance Systems Audit
£1,995 fixed
One-off · findings and a roadmap
Any UK small business with messy finance work
  • How long your month-end really takes, and why
  • Spreadsheets that hold the business together, and the risk in them
  • Software you pay for and do not use
  • Which accounting system fits, and what moving would involve
  • A written report with the fixes in priority order
  • A recorded walkthrough, and a call if you want one
Monthly Bookkeeping
£150/mo
From £295/month for Ltd companies with management accounts
Sole traders, landlords and director-run Ltd companies
  • Bank and card reconciliations every month
  • Books up to date by the 5th
  • VAT returns under Making Tax Digital
  • MTD for Income Tax quarterly updates where they apply
  • Monthly profit and cash in plain English
  • Clean-up of past months from £495 if you are behind
See bookkeeping → or send your details for a fixed quote
First-Month Promise on monthly work
Migrations & Dashboards
£995 from
Dashboard build from £1,495, then from £95/month for the automated refresh
Businesses moving systems or tired of monthly spreadsheets
  • Sage, QuickBooks, Xero or FreeAgent, moved and reconciled to the penny
  • Finance data for ERP projects: ledgers, open items, history
  • Dashboards in Power BI, Tableau or on the web
  • Automated monthly refresh, no spreadsheet rebuilds
  • Fixed scope and price before any work starts
  • Recorded walkthrough instead of meetings
The First-Month Promise

If your first month of monthly work does not give you at least one thing you can act on this quarter, you pay nothing for that month. Full refund, no awkwardness.

What changes on day one

What you have now
  • Books closed on the 25th
  • No idea which customers are profitable
  • Cash "feels tight"
  • Your accountant tells you last year's news
  • One question means one invoice
With BlackpeakCFO
  • Books closed on the 5th
  • Margin by customer, by service line
  • 13-week cash flow forecast
  • Management pack tells you next quarter's moves
  • Email access to the person who knows your numbers
Risk-Free Engagement

The First-Month Promise

If your first monthly report does not tell you at least one thing you can act on, I refund that month in full. You keep the report. You keep everything I prepared. No questions. No awkwardness. No small print.

Full refund within 30 days
You keep every deliverable
Month-to-month — cancel anytime

Why offer this? Because after 24 years in finance, chartered since 2013, I know what a first report has to show you to be worth the fee. I'm that confident in what you'll see on the 5th.

Before You Decide

The questions people ask first.

Straight answers, in plain English.

Trust
Who actually does the work?

I do. Stuart Wilson, ACMA CGMA. There are no juniors and no call centre. I use software and my own automation for the repetitive matching and categorising, and I check every number myself before it reaches you.

Are you a chartered accountant?

I am a chartered management accountant: a member of CIMA, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, since 2013, with the ACMA and CGMA designations. CIMA is a different body from ICAEW, ACCA or ICAS. Management accounting is the side of the profession that deals with monthly numbers, cash flow, forecasting and finance systems, which is the work I do. I am not a registered auditor, so I cannot sign an audit opinion.

What if I am not happy after the first month?

The First-Month Promise: if your first month of monthly work does not give you at least one thing you can act on this quarter, I refund that month in full and you keep everything I prepared.

Price
How much does it cost?

Prices are published and agreed in writing before I start. Monthly bookkeeping starts at £150 a month for sole traders and landlords, and £295 a month for limited companies with management accounts. A bookkeeping clean-up starts at £495. The Finance Systems Audit is £1,995 fixed. A system migration starts at £995 and a dashboard build at £1,495. Prices exclude VAT. See every price.

What is the Finance Systems Audit?

A fixed-price look at how your finance work actually gets done: how long month-end takes, which spreadsheets the business depends on, what software you pay for and do not use, and whether your accounting system still fits. You get a written report with the fixes in priority order and a recorded walkthrough, with a call if you want one. It is yours to keep whether or not we work together.

Do you handle VAT, Self Assessment and Companies House?

Yes, as fixed-price services: VAT returns under Making Tax Digital (£99 a quarter), MTD for Income Tax quarterly updates, Self Assessment (£195), confirmation statements (£149 plus the £50 Companies House fee) and micro-entity year-end accounts (£495). See the limited company prices.

Systems
Can you move us off spreadsheets, or from one accounting system to another?

Yes. Earlier in my career I moved fund accounting off spreadsheets and onto the Linedata and Thomson Reuters platforms, and I have done other accounting-software migrations since. I move businesses between Sage, QuickBooks, Xero and FreeAgent, or off spreadsheets, with the history carried across and the balances reconciled to the penny. Migrations start at £995; finance-data migration for an ERP project (ledgers, open items, history) from £2,495.

Do you build dashboards?

Yes. I build dashboards in Power BI, Tableau or on the web, fed from your accounting system, as a fixed build from £1,495, then an automated monthly refresh from £95 a month. I have written code since 2018, so I build these myself.

Do I have to change my software?

No. I work in Xero, QuickBooks Online, Sage or your spreadsheets as they are. If your current set-up is costing you time, I will tell you and show you what a move would involve before you decide.

Getting started
My books are months behind. Can you still help?

Yes. A three-month catch-up is £495, a full year is £995, and longer clean-ups start at £2,495, all fixed in advance. Once the books are current, monthly bookkeeping keeps them that way. How the clean-up works.

How do we start? Do I need to book a call?

No call is needed. Send your details through the five-minute form and I reply by email within one working day with a fixed-price next step.

Do you work with businesses anywhere in the UK?

Yes. I work remotely with sole traders, landlords and limited companies across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Will I have to sit through meetings?

No. You fill in an onboarding form, we deal with each other by email, and when there is something to show you I send a recorded walkthrough you can watch when it suits. If you want a call, ask for one.

Still have a question? Ask it in the form and I will answer it by email.

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Stop Dreading Your Books.
Let's Sort This Out.

Send your details in a five-minute form. Tell me where the books are, what is worrying you, and what you need handled. I reply myself, by email, within one working day with a fixed-price next step. No phone tag, no calendars, no pressure.

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The First-Month Promise

If your first month of monthly work does not give you at least one thing you can act on, I refund that month in full. You keep the reports.

CIMA chartered since 2013