Specialist accountants for veterinary practices, owners and locum vets across the UK. From everyday accounts and tax to benchmarking, valuations, acquisitions and succession, we help veterinary businesses understand their numbers and build more valuable practices.
We do not just file veterinary accounts. We understand how veterinary practices make, lose and create value.
A practice owner, a practice manager and a locum vet have almost nothing in common commercially. Each gets a different service.
The reporting, benchmarking and planning an independent practice needs to hold its ground against groups with a finance department behind them.
How we helpOne view of the practice and your own position: what to draw, what to reinvest, what the practice is worth and what it needs to be worth.
How we helpStraightforward accounting for locum veterinary surgeons, priced for one person rather than for a practice.
How we helpBranch level reporting, group structure and acquisition support for practices that have grown past one site.
How we helpStructure, funding, projections and reporting for a new practice, set up so you are not rebuilding it in year two.
How we helpEquine practice economics: travel time, seasonality, debtors and the equipment decisions that shape an ambulatory business.
How we helpCompliance done properly, reporting you can manage with, and the transaction work that decides what your practice is eventually worth.
Statutory accounts, corporation tax, partnership and personal returns, prepared with veterinary stock, deferred plan income and owner remuneration handled properly.
Read moreRegular management accounts built around the numbers that drive a veterinary practice, delivered with commentary and a short list of things to look at.
Read moreA structured comparison of your practice against sector data and against itself over time, ending with a short list of the changes worth making.
Read moreA written valuation you can put in front of a buyer, a partner or a lender, with the adjustments and assumptions set out in full.
Read moreFrom first appraisal to completion: what the practice is really worth, how to structure and fund the purchase, and what diligence needs to find.
Read moreWork that raises the price before the practice goes to market, followed by support through the process to completion.
Read moreMost of the money a practice owner makes is decided at four moments: how it starts, how it grows, what it is worth and how it is passed on.
Six measures account for most of the difference between a practice that earns well and one that does not. We report them monthly and compare them to the sector.
A veterinary practice earns through consultations and procedures, dispenses medicines at a margin under real competitive pressure, carries significant stock, collects a large share of its income from insurers, and increasingly sells recurring health plans that are paid for a year before the treatment happens.
None of that is unusual to us and all of it changes how the accounts should be built. A generalist will produce a technically correct set of accounts for a practice like yours and leave you no better informed than you were.
The other half is transactional. Around 60 per cent of UK practices are now owned by large groups. Whether you intend to sell to one, compete with one or resist one, the financial questions are the same, and they need someone who has seen the deals.
More on what specialisation changes in practice
Consultation and procedure income, dispensing margin, plan income and referral work are reported separately, because they behave differently.
Benchmarks from veterinary practice rather than from professional services generally, and comparison against your own sites and your own history.
Normalised EBITDA, owner dependency and the specific factors buyers price. Useful long before you sell.
Two different services at two different price points, so neither is paying for the other.
Everything on this website can be checked. Where we do not yet hold evidence for something, it is not published.
Scope and price in writing before work starts, so telephoning with a question does not generate a bill.
You deal with the same people, and they know your practice. We reply to new enquiries within one working day.
No fabricated testimonials, no unverified accreditation badges, no claimed savings we cannot evidence.
Professional body memberships, regulatory status and professional indemnity details are held in config/site.ts and will appear here once the practice supplies verified evidence. Until then this site makes no membership claim. See regulation and credentials.
Five worked examples of the engagements we run, showing the starting position, the work and what it changes.
Independent small animal practice, single site
How a benchmarking review and a rebuilt fee structure are used to close a margin gap in a busy single site small animal practice.
Illustrative example
Self-employed locum, small animal, working across several practices
How the sole trader against limited company decision is worked through for a full-time locum veterinary surgeon.
Illustrative example
Two site small animal practice
The two year programme of work that raises the price of a practice before it goes to market.
Illustrative example
Working calculators, free and without an email wall. You see the result first and decide afterwards whether to talk to us.
Enter your revenue and cost lines and see operating margin, staffing ratio, drug ratio and locum ratio with commentary on each.
Open the calculatorCheck where a cost sits: commonly claimed, depends on circumstances, usually personal, or needs professional review.
Check an expenseThirteen questions on the things buyers examine, producing a readiness band and the weakest areas to work on.
Score your practiceThe CMA published the final report of its veterinary market investigation on 24 March 2026. Prescription fee caps, published price lists, written estimates above £500 and mandatory ownership branding all have financial consequences, and the implementation deadlines are close.
Read the Practice GuidePractice profitability
What a specialist veterinary accountant does beyond filing accounts, and how to judge whether the one you have is adding anything.
3 August 2026 5 minute read
Practice profitability
What profit a UK veterinary practice can realistically make, why reported figures vary so widely, and the right way to compare your own.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
No sales process. A conversation, a look at your actual numbers, and a fixed price before anything starts.
Half an hour on where the practice is, what is working and what is not. If we are not the right firm for you we will say so.
Your last two sets of accounts and a handful of practice management system reports. We come back with what they show and what they do not.
Scope, deliverables, timetable and price agreed before anything starts. No hourly meter.
Professional clearance, records transfer and HMRC authorisation. It needs very little from you.
Numbers on a fixed timetable with commentary, and a named person who answers when you get in touch.
Half an hour, no charge and no obligation. Bring your last set of accounts and we will tell you what they show, what they hide and what we would do differently.
Prefer to tell us who you are first? Use the guided enquiry and the form asks only what applies to you.
