Experienced
Support led by Tony Scrase FCCA, with 26 years’ experience across accountancy practice and commercial finance.
Scrase Practice Support
Accountancy Practice Overflow Support UK
Experienced, UK-based capacity for accountancy practices facing deadline pressure, staff absence, recruitment gaps or a growing backlog. Scrase Practice Support works behind the scenes within your systems, with completed work returned for your review and approval.
Flexible
Use additional capacity for a single job, a defined project, a busy period or an ongoing workload.
Dependable
UK-wide remote support, PI insured and delivered within an agreed scope, workflow and timescale.
When firms need support
Extra capacity without another permanent hire.
Capacity problems rarely arrive at a convenient time. A cluster of year ends, tax deadlines, staff absence or delayed recruitment can quickly pull partners and managers back into routine production work.
Overflow support provides a practical buffer, allowing your practice to protect deadlines and service quality while keeping control of client relationships and final sign-off.
Common reasons for using overflow support
Year-end accounts and tax deadlines begin to cluster.
A team member is absent or temporarily unavailable.
Recruitment is taking longer than expected.
New client work has increased faster than internal capacity.
A backlog needs to be reduced without lowering standards.
Practical support across your workload
Assignments are agreed around the work your team needs completed and the review points your practice wants to retain.
Statutory accounts
Accounts preparation for limited companies, sole traders and partnerships, ready for review.
Corporation tax
CT600 returns and supporting computations prepared alongside the accounts where agreed.
Self Assessment
Personal tax return support during peak periods and concentrated filing deadlines.
VAT
VAT return preparation and review support within your existing process.
Management accounts
Monthly or quarterly reporting support for practices providing regular client information.
Bookkeeping review
Review and tidy-up work where records need bringing to a review-ready position.
How it works
Support that fits around your practice.
We discuss the work, deadlines, systems and expected review standard.
The scope, turnaround and pricing arrangement are agreed before work starts.
Access is provided through your practice’s systems or approved secure channels.
Work is returned for your practice to review, approve and submit.
Your practice stays in control
Client contact only takes place where specifically agreed. Your practice retains the client relationship, final review, approval and filing responsibility.
Support can scale up or down as your workload changes, without a permanent payroll commitment.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Support can cover one job, a short project, a defined busy period or an ongoing allocation of work.
Not by default. Communication is with your practice team unless direct client contact is specifically agreed.
Yes. The aim is to work within your established systems, working-paper format and review process wherever practical.
That depends on current availability, the work involved and the quality of the records. Timescales are agreed before an assignment is accepted.
Let’s talk capacity
Is workload pressure beginning to affect your deadlines?
Send a short outline of the work, software and required timescale. You will receive a straightforward response about availability and the most suitable arrangement.