Vantis’ Hospitality & Leisure Group offer more than just accounting services to the hospitality and leisure sector - we provide a full range of accounting, business advisory, tax and VAT services specifically tailored to the hospitality and leisure sectors, including:
Our hospitality accounting and business advisory team can help you to understand how your hospitality or leisure business is performing. We can assist you in all aspects of accounting from monthly management accounts to year-end final accounts ready for audit. We also offer our hospitality and leisure clients a full package of accounting services online.
Our leading business recovery team can undertake the full range of business recovery services to assist under-performing and financially troubled hospitality and leisure businesses.
Vantis’ independent financial advisers are able to provide expertise across a whole range of financial services. Dedicated members of our Hospitality & Leisure Group will be able to advise you on a spectrum of services including:
- Investment
- Life cover
- Mortgages
- Pensions
Franchising
Our hospitality and leisure team can advise on all aspects of franchising from brand development to drafting the manual of Standards & Rules to be followed by franchisees. We have worked closely with many established and new entrants to the branded and franchise market place and are often asked by our hospitality and leisure clients to assist them in assessing the relative merits and issues of changing status; these can be financial as well as non-financial.
Fundraising
Our corporate finance team is experienced in assisting and advising hospitality and leisure companies on the most appropriate means of raising capital. The team can assist companies in raising equity finance for all types of transactions including:
- Early stage start-ups
- Development capital
- Replacement capital
- Management buy-outs
- Management buy-ins
- Rescue and restructuring
We have a team of experts who specialise in providing outsourced accounting solutions to the hospitality and leisure sectors. If you are looking to outsource your accounts department we can:
- Address your VAT issues
- Produce your monthly and quarterly reports
- Provide financial statements for auditors
In the hospitality and leisure industry employees play a fundamental role and dealing with payroll can be time-consuming and expensive. We are able to provide a full payroll service giving you payslips and documents to effect payments to staff and the Inland Revenue, including end of year P35 and P60 returns as part of the package.
Risk & Assurance Services
Hospitality and leisure businesses can often encounter a higher than average level of fraud and we are able to offer an experienced team who will assess this risk and recommend procedures and controls to minimise the likelihood of fraud.
Unfortunately clients in the hospitality and leisure sectors may face a greater chance of investigation and enquiry by HM Revenue & Customs. This investigation and enquiry could cover areas including:
Within our hospitality and leisure team we have ex-Inland Revenue and Customs Inspectors plus industry specialists who can help you through the stress and uncertainty that an enquiry can bring.
Vantis’ Hospitality & Leisure Group can offer you the advice of industry experts including the former Head of HMRC’s “Operation Gourmet.” Our tronc scheme experts can help you set up systems that will save you time and money and provide you with the peace of mind you need to concentrate on running your business. Please visit our tronc scheme advice page for more information.
Our VAT experts are able to advise you on all aspects of your hospitality and leisure business. Examples of just some of the VAT consultancy and recovery services we offer can be seen on our VAT page.
Other services
If you require an audit, Vantis will work alongside independent audit services provider HLB Vantis Audit plc. This specialist audit practice will ensure that your service needs are met by an experienced team, with relevant expertise in your industry.
For more information about the accounting, business and tax services Vantis' Hospitality & Leisure Group can provide please contact the head of the group, Jonathan Perrin.