admin@sunnysideaccountancy.co.uk

Turnover’s up. You’re flat out. So why does money still keep you awake at night?

Your staff get paid. Your suppliers get paid. HMRC gets paid. You work evenings and weekends to make sure of it. And yet the bank balance never seems to show it, the tax bill still lands like a punch, and you’re the last person in your own business to get paid.

You don’t have a hard-work problem. You have a system problem, and it can be fixed.

Book a free profit call See how we help

The Sunnyside Profit System, led by Jess Weston, accountant and founder of Sunnyside Accountancy

Be honest. How much of this sounds like you?

The money worries

  • You check the bank balance before every decision, because it’s the only number you’ve got.
  • Your accounts say you made a profit. You’ve no idea where it went.
  • You never quite know how much of the money in the bank is really yours to spend.
  • One quiet month or one late payer is enough to make things tight.

The tax dread

  • The tax bill lands and you scramble to find it: the overdraft, a credit card, your own savings.
  • You’ve had to ask HMRC for time to pay, or worried you might have to.
  • You don’t really know what the next bill will be until it arrives.
  • Every VAT quarter, your stomach tightens.

The cost to you

  • Everyone else gets paid first. You get whatever’s left. That isn’t a salary, it’s a leftover.
  • The business has grown. Your own income hasn’t.
  • You check the banking app at 11pm. And from the sunbed on holiday.
  • You’ve lain awake running the numbers, and wondered if you’d be better off working for someone else.

If you recognised even two or three of these, you’re not alone. And it isn’t because you’re bad at business.

“I see this in small-business accounts every week. Good businesses, owners working all hours, and nothing to show for it. A business that keeps you worrying about money isn’t a successful business yet, however good the turnover looks.”

Jess Weston, Sunnyside Accountancy

What staying stuck really costs

Another tax bill paid on the credit card.

Another year of paying yourself less than the job is worth.

Another holiday spent watching the banking app.

Another year of growth that never reaches your own pocket.

Working harder won’t change it. Changing the system will.

Book a free profit call

Why it happens

It’s not that you’re bad with money

Your bank balance is misleading you

It includes VAT, next year’s tax and next month’s wages. None of that is yours, but it all looks spendable, so it gets spent.

Nobody joins the dots

Your pay, your tax, your prices and your costs all affect each other. They’re rarely planned together, so a decision in one quietly undoes another.

Your numbers arrive too late

Year-end accounts tell you what happened months ago. By then it’s too late to change anything.

The Sunnyside Profit System fixes all three. It brings your cash, your pay, your tax and your prices into one plan, built and run by accountants who see real small-business numbers every week. Then we meet every month, with a set agenda, so you change what happens next instead of finding out what already happened.

Your 12-month journey: the Sunnyside Profit System

Four stages, twelve months: from “never sure what’s left” to “in control”

One journey, in four stages, over your first twelve months. It starts with your Profit Assessment, our own diagnostic of where your money goes and what your business can really afford. Each stage builds on the one before, and every month has a set job to do.

  1. ✓
    Start
    Profit Assessment
  2. 1
    Clarity
    Month 1
  3. 2
    Control
    Months 2 to 3
  4. 3
    Confidence
    Months 4 to 6
  5. 4
    Freedom
    Months 7 to 12
  6. ↻
    Year two
    New assessment, new targets
1STAGE 1 OF 4
MONTH 1

Clarity

From: “Where has it all gone?”

By then you’ll have

  • A clear picture of where your money went last year
  • Your starting percentages, from your Profit Assessment
  • Your first allocation done
  • A quick win on your biggest money worry

Designed to feel like

“I finally know where it goes.”

2STAGE 2 OF 4
MONTHS 2 TO 3

Control

From: “I dread the tax bill.”

By then you’ll have

  • A set owner’s pay figure, paid on a regular date
  • A tax pot that builds every time you’re paid, at a percentage worked out for your business
  • Every regular cost reviewed
  • Your 12-month Profit Plan

Designed to feel like

Paying yourself on purpose, not with leftovers. Tax money that isn’t yours to spend, and that’s a relief.

3STAGE 3 OF 4
MONTHS 4 TO 6

Confidence

From: “Can I afford this?”

By then you’ll have

  • Your first profit distribution taken
  • A plan to clear debt, with dates
  • Your prices checked against what they really earn
  • Your tax pot checked against your estimated bill at each quarterly review, and topped up if it’s short

Designed to feel like

Watching the money set aside for profit grow in its own account, and no more guessing what the next tax bill will be.

4STAGE 4 OF 4
MONTHS 7 TO 12

Freedom

From: “I’m always last to get paid.”

By then you’ll have

  • A cash buffer target, and a calendar for the big bills
  • Tax planned before your year end, and your pot checked against the bill before it’s due
  • Next year’s plan

Designed to feel like

Paying the tax bill from money already set aside, not the credit card. Room to take time off, hire or invest.

What you’ll have is what we deliver. How it feels is what the system is designed for, and what clients are aiming for. Every business is different: how much profit you make depends on your market and customers, and results depend on doing the monthly steps.

What’s inside the system

The Profit Assessment

Our diagnostic. It shows where your money goes, what you can afford to pay yourself, and the targets we work towards. Repeated every year.

A set agenda every month

Twelve topics in order, timed around your year end: costs, owner’s pay, debt, pricing, tax planning and more. No meetings that drift.

Your real numbers, every session

Every session starts with your actual figures from your accounting software, so decisions are based on what’s really happening in your business, not a guess or last year’s accounts.

A simple cash system

To give every pound a job, we use Profit First, created by Mike Michalowicz. Jess is a Certified Profit First Professional.

Preview of the one-page Sunnyside Profit System map: the four stages, what you'll have at each, and both packages

See the whole year on one page

The four stages, what you’ll have at each, and both packages on a single A4 sheet. Handy to print, or to share with a business partner before your call.

Download the one-page map (PDF)

Two packages, two different problems

Take control of your money, or have a finance partner by your side

Both start with three months of Foundations, setting up your system with a quick win in month 1. No setup fee.

Profit Path

Stop wondering where the money went. Start paying yourself properly.

This is for you if:

  • You look at the bank balance and still don’t know how much of it is really yours
  • Tax bills arrive as a shock, and you scramble to pay them
  • You pay yourself last, and only when there’s something left
  • You’ve tried to get on top of it before, and it never sticks

What you get:

  • A 45-minute session with Jess every month, each on a set topic
  • Quarterly reviews with your profit share
  • Your own 12-month Profit Plan
  • Email support, replies within 2 working days
£395 + VAT a month

6-month minimum, then monthly.

Book a free profit call
LIKE HAVING A PART-TIME FINANCE DIRECTOR

Profit Partner

Stop making big decisions on gut feel. Know your numbers every month and see problems coming.

This is for you if:

  • You find out how the business really did months after it’s too late to do anything about it
  • Payroll week or a VAT quarter can still leave you short
  • You’re hiring, investing or growing, and can’t tell whether you can really afford it
  • Decisions worth tens of thousands rest on your gut feel, and on you alone
  • You’ve outgrown “the accountant you see once a year”, but can’t justify a full-time finance director

Everything in Profit Path, plus:

  • Know your numbers every month: management accounts and a one-page dashboard by working day 10
  • See cash problems weeks ahead: a 13-week cash forecast, updated monthly
  • Plan the year, don’t just survive it: an annual budget, quarterly planning with a year-end forecast, and a half-day planning session
  • Tax planned before the year end, not discovered after it
  • A finance partner on call: up to two extra decision calls a quarter, and email replies within 1 working day
  • A 60-minute meeting every month instead of 45
from £1,250 + VAT a month

The exact price depends on how complex your business is, not its size. We’ll confirm it on your free call. 12-month minimum, then monthly.

Book a free profit call

Side by side

What you getProfit PathProfit Partner
Foundations: setup, quick win, Profit PlanIncludedIncluded
Monthly session with Jess on a set topic45 minutes60 minutes
Quarterly sessions60-minute review and profit share90-minute planning, profit share and year-end forecast
Monthly management accounts and dashboardNot includedEvery month, by working day 10
13-week cash forecastNot includedUpdated every month
Annual budgetNot includedIncluded
Year-end tax planningQuoted separatelyIncluded
Calls between sessions for urgent decisionsNot includedUp to two a quarter
Email repliesWithin 2 working daysWithin 1 working day
End of year90-minute annual reviewHalf-day annual planning
Minimum term6 months12 months

Your year, month by month

Every month has a topic, an agenda and an outcome

No general check-ins. You’ll always know what we’re covering, what to bring and what you’ll leave with.

MonthProfit PathProfit Partner
Stage 1: Clarity
1Where your money goesWhere your money goes, plus management accounts set up
Stage 2: Control
2Cutting costsCutting costs, with your first monthly accounts
3Paying yourself and planning for taxPaying yourself and planning for tax
Stage 3: Confidence
4Your first profit share (quarterly review)The numbers that matter: your dashboard
5Debt and finance agreementsDebt and funding
6Pricing and marginsQuarterly planning (90 min)
Stage 4: Freedom
7Second quarterly reviewPricing and margins by service, product and customer
8Cash buffer and big billsCash flow and getting paid faster
9Sales and your best workQuarterly planning (90 min)
10Year-end tax planning (quarterly review)Next year’s budget
11Growth decisionsGrowth and investment decisions
12Your annual reviewAnnual planning (half a day)
Jess Weston, founder of Sunnyside Accountancy

Who you’ll work with

An accountant who wants to change what happens next

I’m Jess, founder of Sunnyside. Every week I look at the numbers of good businesses run by hard-working owners who still can’t say where the money went. For years, accountancy meant telling people what had already happened. I’d rather help you change what happens next.

That’s why I built the Sunnyside Profit System. You’ll work with me directly, every month, on your real numbers. No jargon, no judgement, and no lectures about your spending. Just a plan, and someone in your corner while you follow it.

Jess Weston, accountant, founder of Sunnyside Accountancy and Certified Profit First Professional

Questions

How is this different from my annual accounts?

Your accounts tell you what happened last year, and you still need them. This changes what happens next: every month, using your real numbers, before the year is over.

Which package is right for me?

We’ll recommend one on your free profit call. If your main problem is never knowing what’s left, it’s Profit Path. If you’re making big decisions and need monthly numbers and forecasts, it’s Profit Partner. You can move up at any time.

What happens on the free profit call?

It’s 30 minutes on the phone with Jess. She’ll tell you which stage of the Sunnyside Profit System you’re at, what your first 90 days would look like, and honestly whether we can help. If we can, she’ll recommend one package and tell you the price. If not, she’ll say so.

I’m too busy for this.

It’s one session a month, a 10-minute form beforehand, and a few minutes each time you move your money. Most owners find it saves them far more time than it takes, because they stop guessing.

What if money’s too tight to even start?

Then that’s where we start. Your percentages come from your real numbers, so if there isn’t much room yet, we start small, but we always put something aside for profit from day one. If you have debt, part of every quarterly profit share goes to clearing it. If your business is struggling to pay its bills at all, we’ll tell you straight on the call and point you to the right free help.

Is there a setup fee?

No. The setup work is part of your first three months.

How often will I move money?

We agree it with you in month 1, to suit how money comes into your business: weekly, twice a month or monthly.

Do I have to be a Sunnyside accounts client?

No. You’re welcome whoever does your accounts. The one thing we need is your bookkeeping kept on accounting software, such as Xero or QuickBooks, and up to date, because every session works from your real numbers. If it’s behind, we can quote to bring it up to date before you start.

Can you guarantee results?

No one can promise how much profit your business will make. That depends on your market and your customers. Here’s what you can count on from us: a set agenda every month, your summary within two working days, and your Profit Assessment and 12-month Profit Plan by day 90. On Profit Partner, your monthly numbers arrive by working day 10 as well.

And the system does its part. Move your money on your agreed days, and every time you’re paid, money goes to your profit, your tax and your own wage before anything else. Whatever comes in, you’ll know exactly where it’s going.

Another year of the same, or a business that pays you properly?

Book a free, no-obligation profit call. We’ll talk through what’s happening with your money and recommend the right package, or tell you straight if neither is right for you yet.

Book a free profit call

Prefer to message? WhatsApp 07822 012550 · Calls by appointment: 01380 819905 · admin@sunnysideaccountancy.co.uk

The Sunnyside Profit System, its packages and prices are Sunnyside’s own. Jess Weston is a Certified Profit First Professional. Profit First was created by Mike Michalowicz.