Practice profitability
What Does a Veterinary Accountant Do?
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
Veterinary Business Insights
Writing about the financial side of veterinary practice, aimed at people who run one. Every piece carries a published date, its sources and a note where it needs professional review before you act on it.
Practice profitability
Practice profitability
How Profitable Is a Veterinary Practice?
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
Practice profitability
How Much Working Capital Does a Veterinary Practice Need?
Working out the working capital a UK veterinary practice needs, why profitable practices run short of cash, and what to hold in reserve.
3 August 2026 5 minute read
Practice profitability
Veterinary Payroll Costs and Staffing Ratios
How to read staffing cost in a veterinary practice, which ratios matter, and why team shape matters more than headcount.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
Practice profitability
Reducing Locum Costs Without Damaging Patient Care
Practical ways for UK veterinary practices to reduce reliance on locum cover, and what persistent locum spend is really telling you.
3 August 2026 5 minute read
Practice profitability
Veterinary Stock Control and Missed Charges
Two of the largest and least visible profit leaks in a veterinary practice, how to measure them and how to close them.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
Practice profitability
Equipment Finance for Veterinary Practices: Lease or Buy?
How UK veterinary practices should approach buying diagnostic and surgical equipment: outright purchase, hire purchase, finance lease or operating lease.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
Buying and selling
Buying and selling
What Is Normalised EBITDA in a Veterinary Practice?
Normalised EBITDA explained for veterinary practice owners: what it is, which adjustments are legitimate, and why it decides what your practice is worth.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
Buying and selling
Buying a Veterinary Practice: Financial Due Diligence Checklist
A practical checklist of the financial information to request and the questions to ask when buying a UK veterinary practice.
3 August 2026 7 minute read
Tax and compliance
Tax and compliance
Pet Health Plans: The Accounting and VAT Questions
How UK veterinary practices should account for pet health plan income, the VAT questions plans raise, and how to tell whether a plan makes money.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
Tax and compliance
Partnership or Limited Company for a Veterinary Practice?
How UK veterinary practices should choose between partnership, limited liability partnership and limited company, and when it is worth changing.
3 August 2026 7 minute read
Tax and compliance
Employment Status and Long-term Locums: The Practice Side
What UK veterinary practices need to know about engaging locums as self-employed, where the risk sits and how to reduce it.
3 August 2026 6 minute read
A Question These Do Not Answer?
General writing only goes so far. If you have a specific question about your practice or your own position, ask it directly.