We work for small businesses in the Hanover area
Self-employed professionals, trade businesses and small companies: We handle your ongoing bookkeeping, prepare payroll, tax returns and annual financial statements – and you always speak to the same person.
Our focus
Small businesses aren't a side business, they're our main focus
The majority of our clients have between one and fifteen people in their business – workshop, office, retail shop or single-person office in the Hanover area.
Self-employed
Freelancers, sole proprietors and side-business owners: income statement, VAT advance returns and personal tax return, all from a single source.
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Trade businesses
From two-person operations to workshops with journeymen and apprentices: payroll, site documents, fixed assets and the annual financial statement, on schedule.
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Small companies
GmbH, UG or GbR with a team: ongoing financial bookkeeping, monthly reports, corporate and trade tax, plus financial statements for banks and shareholders.
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What businesses come to us for
The reasons vary significantly depending on legal form and size – a workshop with four journeymen has different questions than a single-person office with no staff.
Self-employed: order in your accounts
Receipts pile up, the advance return is due, and the question of reserves for a back payment remains unresolved. We set up a fixed monthly rhythm and file on time.
Trades: wages paid on time
Timesheets, allowances, apprentices and changing job sites: payroll has to be ready before the end of the month. We take care of wages, including reports to the health fund and the trade association.
Companies: figures for decisions
When the bank needs documents or shareholders need a basis, ongoing bookkeeping helps. It delivers monthly reports instead of a single figure in May.
Switching accounting firms
Your previous advisor is stopping, or the working relationship no longer fits. We obtain the prior year's data, clarify open points and take over without a gap in the current year.
Starting up and the first years
Legal form, small business regulation, tax registration: decisions made at the start have effects for years. We organise the obligations and tell you what needs doing and when.
Mail from the tax office
Checking a notice, meeting a deadline, filing an objection or accompanying a tax audit – even for ongoing clients, the most common reason for a short-notice call.
Working together
One point of contact, one fixed rhythm
Every client has a dedicated contact with us – if you call, you don't need to explain your business from scratch each time, and document workflows stay the same throughout the year.
Documents arrive however suits your business
Whether you upload invoices via the portal, send them by e-mail or drop off the folder at Georgstraße 22 – we set up the process to fit your daily work routine, not the other way around. What matters is only that the documents are complete and arrive by the agreed deadline.
- Digital handover or paper folder, both possible
- Fixed deadline each month instead of a bulk submission in spring
- Checklist of required documents provided in advance
- Questions bundled together instead of scattered over weeks
Process
How our collaboration begins
Whether a sole proprietorship, a trade business with payroll accounting, or a small GmbH: onboarding follows the same pattern for all client groups. Four steps to ongoing support.
1. Initial consultation, about 45 minutes
We clarify your legal form, method of profit determination and revenue scale. This determines whether an income surplus statement is sufficient or whether you are subject to mandatory accounting. During the conversation you'll learn what work is involved and the approximate range of the fee. The initial consultation is free of charge for you.
We clarify your legal form, method of profit determination and revenue scale. This determines whether an income surplus statement is sufficient or whether you are subject to mandatory accounting. During the conversation you'll learn what work is involved and the approximate range of the fee. The initial consultation is free of charge for you.
You sign the power of attorney for the tax office so that we can receive notices and extend deadlines. When switching, we request the prior-year documents from your previous advisor: balance sheet or income surplus statement, asset register, residual book values, and for payroll, the employee master data and payroll accounts.
We agree on how documents reach us: digitally via the client portal, through an interface from your invoicing software, or the traditional way in a folder. Trade businesses usually scan incoming invoices directly from their job-site phone. We set a deadline by which each month's documents should be submitted.
Each month we handle the bookkeeping and file the advance VAT return; for payroll clients, payroll processing, contribution statements and social security filings are added. You receive your report with the month's figures. Once a year, the annual financial statements and tax returns follow.
Frequently Asked
What clients often ask us
Four points come up in the initial consultation with almost every client group — here are the answers in advance.
Let's talk about your project
Briefly describe what it's about – Steuerkanzlei Berg will get back to you with an assessment.