Accountants
Know your numbers while they still matter
Fixed-fee monthly bookkeeping, month-end reporting and the five numbers that tell you whether the site is performing. Closed in six working days, not six weeks.
A GENERALIST ACCOUNTANT FILES YOUR ACCOUNTS. THEY CAN'T TELL YOU WHERE THE NEXT POINT OF MARGIN IS.
Accounts arrive weeks after the period they describe. By the time you see a weak month, the chance to do anything about it has gone.
Court hire, coaching, F&B and retail all get recorded, but rarely separated well enough to compare them, or margins. You cannot see which ones are performing.
Revenue splits, employment status and VAT treatment on coaching all need deciding before HMRC decides for you.
A lender or an investor will ask when it suits them, in their format. Having it ready before they ask puts you on the front foot.
Five numbers, defined the same way every month
Five numbers describe the unit economics of a court hour. The same five appear in your reporting pack every month, so a number never changes definition between conversations. Anonymised data across our portfolio will allow you to compare yourself to peers.
Priced by stage, not by court count
Typically under 1% of monthly court revenue for an established single-site venue.
Pre-opening and first years, still building utilisation.
Established venues, one site or two, especially investor-backed.
Groups with more than one legal entity.
What your first four weeks look like
Four weeks from signature to your first reporting pack. You can start mid-year and mid-quarter: we pick up from your last closed month, rebuild the reporting around courts rather than cost codes, and close the first month-end on the new structure. Nothing about how you run the venue has to change.
Ways of working agreed, read-only access to your systems, and professional clearance handled with your current accountant.
Chart of accounts restructured around court hire, coaching and F&B, with coach contracts and the VAT position on advance bookings reviewed.
The current period brought up to date and reconciled, and your court and clubhouse lease reviewed so the treatment is right from the start.
First management pack and first KPI set on the new structure, with written commentary on what the numbers say.
Specialists in one sector. Padel.
Padel Accountants is the first UK accountancy practice working with padel operators and nothing else.
That focus is the point. You spend no time explaining your business model. We already know how a padel business should be set up, how to present performance, and what investors, lenders and landlords look for.
We bring over a decade of experience reporting for fast-growing, equity-backed businesses. Founded by the CEO and co-founder who built flinder (acquired 2024), a regular speaker, writer and contributor on where the profession is heading.
More about usOne fee covers bookkeeping, VAT, period-end and reporting.
Every client runs courts. Not a generic accountant's template.
A decade reporting for VC and PE-backed businesses, to investor standard.
Six working days after month end on Grow and above. Most operators are used to waiting many weeks for accounts that have stopped being useful by the time they receive them. Up to date and insightful reporting means you can still act on what they tell you.
A firm that understands your business, your peers and your industry. A setup and process that's aligned to your strategy and organises your data and technology to match. You never explain how coaching revenue works or what a padel investor expects to see.
£750 to £2,050 a month depending on your plan, fixed. Less than a part-time finance hire, and wider in scope than a compliance-only practice. That covers unlimited bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, year-end accounts and corporation tax, plus the monthly close, your KPIs read alongside the numbers, and the calls in between. Onboarding is a one-off charge of one month's fee.
Yes, outside the monthly subscription and available on request. Fractional CFO, budgeting, cashflow forecasting, investor and transaction readiness, fundraising and corporate finance, business valuations, SEIS/EIS advance assurance and others.
A short call, then read-only access to your data so we can see the shape of the business. Proposal, agreement, and we contact your outgoing accountant to handle clearance and the handover. We pick up from your last closed month, whatever point in the year it is.
Twenty minutes to work out what you need and what it costs
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