First-year accounts for limited company in Bideford

First-year accounts for new Bideford companies

Your first accounts normally cover a little over twelve months, running from the day you incorporated to your accounting reference date, and the period can never be longer than 18 months. For most companies the first accounts are due 21 months after incorporation. You must also register for Corporation Tax within three months of starting to trade.

First company accounts for Bideford businesses: local facts

Bideford is in the Torridge council area, in the South West region. In Torridge, 3,365 of the 3,695 VAT- and PAYE-registered businesses in the 2026 ONS count have fewer than ten employees, around 91%. If you run a company in Bideford, you are in good company.

The largest groups of micro businesses in Torridge are agriculture, forestry and fishing (1,215), construction (490) and wholesale and retail (365). If you work in agriculture, forestry and fishing in Bideford, seasonal income, grants and farm equipment need careful year-end treatment, so we tie your accounts to bank records and an asset register. That puts agriculture, forestry and fishing at 36% of the local micro-business base.

Zooming in, the ONS neighbourhood area around Bideford (Torridge 003) has 240 VAT- or PAYE-registered businesses, and 205 of them (85%) are micro businesses.

Torridge ranks 972 of the 1105 areas we serve by number of micro businesses, and its micro share of 91% is above the 89% average across them. In construction (490 micro businesses in Torridge), Construction Industry Scheme deductions, retentions and stage payments can distort profit, so we reconcile your CIS statements before the accounts are prepared. In wholesale and retail (365 micro businesses in Torridge), closing stock and the VAT treatment of different product lines are the usual pressure points, so we value stock carefully and check your VAT records.