First-year accounts for limited company in Marlow

First-year accounts for new Marlow 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 Marlow businesses: local facts

Marlow is in the Buckinghamshire council area, in the South East region. In Buckinghamshire, 28,335 of the 31,180 VAT- and PAYE-registered businesses in the 2026 ONS count have fewer than ten employees, around 91%. If you run a company in Marlow, you are in good company.

The largest groups of micro businesses in Buckinghamshire are professional, scientific and technical services (5,770), construction (4,310) and wholesale and retail (3,355). If you work in professional, scientific and technical services in Marlow, fee income, work in progress at the year end and how directors are paid are the key decisions, so we plan these with you before the accounts are finalised. That puts professional, scientific and technical services at 20% of the local micro-business base.

Zooming in, the ONS neighbourhood area around Marlow (Buckinghamshire 062) has 575 VAT- or PAYE-registered businesses, and 525 of them (91%) are micro businesses.

Buckinghamshire ranks 38 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 (4,310 micro businesses in Buckinghamshire), 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 (3,355 micro businesses in Buckinghamshire), 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.