Francesca Pridding
Town Clerk, Tywyn Town Council
Scribe Accounts is trusted by hundreds of councils and is recognised by HMRC as supporting Making Tax Digital (MTD) for VAT
Most accounts software is designed for businesses with Profit and Loss accounts. This means there are complicated ledgers that are unnecessary for councils, and you can't produce the reports you need to meet your statutory obligations.
Many councils find using these packages difficult, so stick to Excel spreadsheets, but this has no audit trail and requires time to be spent on producing manual reports.
Scribe Accounts is a budget-led accounts package, purpose built for Town and Parish councils, designed to make it easy to produce compliant council accounts.
Scribe is a full receipts and payments accounts system which includes an option to convert at year end to income and expenditure accounts with a balance sheet.
Adding your payments and receipts into Scribe is simple, and quick. All the data you add is immediately available for bank reconciliation and reporting.
Because Scribe is built purely for councils, there are no complicated unnecessary features to navigate.
We provide tutorials, webinars and access to our Support Team by phone and email, so you'll never be on your own!
Using Scribe will ensure your accounts process is fully compliant, without the headache of producing last minute manual reports.
Sue Piergianni, Clerk – Whittlesey Town Council
Would you like to see how Scribe works? This two minute video will show you the basics!
Scribe makes your daily accounting easier, and your monthly and annual reporting effortless.
Produce a budget profile, and then report on your actual year to date spending verses your initial estimates. View where you are underspending and overspending against your budget.
Ensure that the reality of your bank account matches your accounting records, by using our bank reconciliation functionality to ensure all transactions are accounted for.
Sometimes with multiple users adding accounting records, it's necessary to understand how and why changes were made. The journal audit trail ensures you can always review any changes made to your accounts.
Scribe can help you with all of your VAT reporting requirements. You are able to pull up a summary of your input and output VAT at any time, and can also generate the VAT Form 100 and Form 126.
No extra work is required to produce reports for your councillors. By using Scribe for your daily accounts, your monthly council reports are automatically generated at the touch of a button.
Producing your Year End Statement will never be easier. All of the work has already been done for you, with just a few clicks your report will be generated.
Scribe is recognised by HMRC as ready for the Making-Tax-Digital (MTD) changes in FY 2019. Scribe allows you to submit your VAT returns directly to HMRC.
Scribe's new web version will be available for the 2019 financial year - allowing you to access Scribe through the web on your Mac, PC, smart-phone or tablet.
Our Professional Services Team can perform accounts work on your behalf, from helping with reconciliation to data entry.
Our pricing is based upon your council's precept, making Scribe affordable even for the smallest of councils.
Choose between storing your accounting data on your PC or securely in the cloud.
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