A proper local firm. Quiet, careful, on your side.
CFD Accountancy Limited is a small, friendly practice in the heart of Shipley, a few minutes from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire. Since the early 2000s we've been the regular accountant for individuals, sole traders, partnerships and small companies across West Yorkshire. Owner-led, deliberately small, with a real office and the same person on the phone year after year.
How we work, in three movements.
There's nothing mysterious about good accountancy. There is, though, a particular order things have to be done in if they're going to mean anything.
Bookkeeping done monthly, not annually. VAT, payroll, accounts filed on time, every time. The compliance work isn't the headline — it's the foundation, and we take it seriously.
Once the numbers are clean, they start to speak. Cashflow, margin trends, customer concentration, hidden tax exposure — we surface what's actually going on and translate it out of the jargon.
The interesting work happens around a table. What to invest in, what to wind down, when to incorporate, how to price the next contract. A sounding board with a calculator behind it.
An owner-led practice. The person you ring is the person who does the work.
CFD is run by its founder, with more than twenty years of looking after the books, tax returns, payroll and year-ends for people in Shipley and across West Yorkshire. No call centre. No junior you've never spoken to. No being passed around. One careful pair of hands, on your books, year after year.
Owner-led, since the early 2000s
Two decades of looking after the books for sole traders, partnerships and small companies in Shipley and West Yorkshire. The same hands on your accounts now as the day you signed up. We pick up the phone, we explain the difficult thing first in plain English, and we stay until the books are right.
Plain English, every time. No jargon, no upsell, no surprises on the invoice.
Filed on time, every time. The compliance work is the foundation — we take it seriously.
Technical expertise paired with a clear understanding of what businesses actually need to succeed.
A small firm, on purpose.
CFD has sat in Shipley for more than twenty years — long enough to know the local market, the local lenders, and a surprising number of the local landlords. The technology has changed. The philosophy hasn't: the person who answers your email is the person doing the work, and nobody gets passed to someone they've never spoken to.
We don't want to be a hundred-person firm. We want to be the firm a sole trader can ring from the van on a Tuesday afternoon, and a small company can trust with its year-end. That's what keeps the work honest and the conversations real.
A few minutes from Shipley station.
The kettle is always on, and the door is open during working hours. Bring whatever you've got — a folder of receipts, a USB stick, or just a question.