Final Accounts

= a closing balance of £5,304,635, decided head by head: the statement is only the scoreboard. Each head is won or lost on its own contractual test and its own records, which is why the account is agreed line by line rather than split as one number.

Hover or tap any head for the detail behind it. The gap between the sum submitted and the sum certified is not split down the middle: it is decided line by line, and on each line the side with the better record keeps the difference.

The final account as the statement itself: the heads that build the closing balance, and the evidence each stands or falls on.

Problems

Find the one that reads like your problem. Each page explains what is actually happening and the way out of it.

Their assessment has landed and it's short

The number they've put on my account is a long way below mine, and it's presented as final.

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Contra-charges have appeared from nowhere

Deductions I've never seen proved have appeared at the account stage, taken off as if they were agreed.

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My retention is being held long after it should have moved

The job is done, the defects are closed or nearly closed, and the retention still sits on their ledger.

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I can't tell whether to settle or keep fighting

There's an offer on the table, or a dispute coming, and no clear view of what my case is actually worth.

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The final account is due and I'm building my position

The job is finishing, the final account has to go in, and how I put it together will decide the next six months.

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The project cost me far more than I was paid

Delay and disruption ate the margin, and none of it is in the account yet.

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I can see a dispute coming and my records are thin

The job has turned, the account is going to be a fight, and I already know my paperwork isn't ready for one.

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We're going into a settlement meeting with no plan

No sense of what to concede, what to hold, or what each head is actually worth.

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The dispute needs setting out item by item and nobody has the format

Each item, each position, each response, in the form a tribunal expects.

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Their response goes through our quantum line by line

Their schedule has landed and we need a structure to answer it in.

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The account has been open so long the people have left

Nobody still here knows what was agreed, and the file is all that's left of it.

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Services

Final Account Review

ForensicFixed FeeFor Subcontractors10 working days

I review your final account position before you submit or settle and tell you where entitlement is unproven, time-barred or at risk.

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Final Account Dispute

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors, Main Contractors & Clients

Where your account is rejected or ignored, I rebuild it as a case and run the correspondence that makes silence stop working.

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Termination Account & Cost to Complete

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors, Main Contractors & Clients

When a contract ends in termination, I build the account its termination provisions require, for the terminating party or the terminated.

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Quantum Meruit & Letter of Intent Valuation

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors & Main Contractors

Where work was done without a concluded contract to price it, I measure what was done and value it properly, so the claim for payment stands on evidence rather than an invoice total.

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Set-Off & Contra-Charge Defence

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors

I answer the deductions taken against you and show, line by line, which ones fail their own conditions.

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Counterclaim & Contra-Charge Build

RemedialHourlyFor Main Contractors & Clients

I build your counterclaim or contra-charge schedule properly, each item evidenced, anchored and priced from records, so the deduction you make is one that holds.

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Liquidated Damages Deduction Review

ForensicFixed FeeFor Subcontractors, Main Contractors & Clients5 working days

I check a liquidated damages deduction against the machinery that authorises it and tell you what the documents and the arithmetic actually support.

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Retention Dispute

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors

Where your retention is withheld or the certificate releasing it was never issued, I establish the entitlement and draft the demand that pursues it.

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Retention Recovery Sweep

RemedialFixed FeeFor Subcontractors10 working days per batch

I sweep your historic contracts for every retention still owed, value each sum from the payment paperwork and chase its release with letters ready to send in your name.

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Settlement Negotiation Support

RemedialHourlyFor Subcontractors, Main Contractors & Clients

I run the negotiation for you: the positions, the correspondence, and knowing what your case is worth before you accept less.

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Dispute Viability Review

ForensicFixed FeeFor Subcontractors, Main Contractors & Clients5 working days

A straight answer to whether this dispute is worth pursuing, on what merits, and for how much.

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