Any institution that deals with money will need accounting, and medical clinics, hospitals, and healthcare centres are no exception. That said, the need for medical accountants should not be overlooked, as it is through these experts can the healthcare facility ensure a cost-effective way of handling its finances. Even for those who have a small clinic or practice, a medical accountant’s service can be valuable as specialised accounting services may potentially help them reduce their taxes while ensuring correct and timely filings in the long run.
Medical practitioners are often busy taking care of their patients, so they might not have sufficient time to manage their accounts. Often, they would find themselves attending to taxes and their books on the last minute, which could result in incorrect information and costly mistakes, as well as action from HMRC. They can avoid all that trouble by relying on seasoned medical accountants.
A medical accountant specialises in the healthcare and medical sector. They can also be a trustworthy business advisor, too. Along with bookkeeping and accounting services they offer, they can also aid in business-related issues, such as managing year-end accounts, raising finance, increasing profit, and much more. This way, healthcare professionals can rely on medical accountants as their one-stop source for solutions that can eliminate complex accounting-related tasks and advice to grow their practice.
Experienced and reputable medical accountants can work with anyone in the healthcare sector. They work with general practitioners, dentists, hospital doctors, salaried GPs, pharmacists, and medical consultants. With their services, those healthcare professionals can focus on their core tasks and leave the tracking of payments to experts. A medical accountant could also save them from the guesswork associated with handling accounts.
Healthcare professionals can become prone to paying more taxes than necessary, resulting in them losing much of their revenue when they could be saving more. Medical accountants have a greater understanding of tax laws, so they can and look into that problem and find legal ways to help doctors and other medical professionals file minimum tax according to the law. Likewise, they can also help doctors secure refunds in a timely way. Tax planning is another area that doctors may need some assistance. A medical accountant can help with advanced tax planning to improve the financial health of medical practitioners.
About the Author:
Amit Gupta, Director, Allenby Accountants.
Allenby Accountants is a firm of Chartered Accountants in Uxbridge, West London. We offer tax advice, business advice, financial advice and support our clients in achieving the ambitions that they have in life such as buying home, sending kids to a good university, living a happy retired life, etc. Our range of services include accounting, bookkeeping, tax planning, VAT advice, inheritance tax planning, succession planning, business buying & selling, etc. We specialise in sectors such as medical & healthcare, hospitality, media, ecommerce, professional services, property & construction, charity and not-for-profit and more.
