01 Full Compass Accountancy Suite
Six apps. One client list.
Independent accountancy software for UK practices: accounts production, business tax, personal tax, payroll, and bookkeeping with VAT returns. Enter a client once, and every app works from the same record, on your own computer.
Version 0.2.7 · Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit · one setup installs the apps you choose
A test version, shared for trying out
Full Compass is still being built and checked. It has not been recognised or approved by HMRC or Companies House. Please try it with the demonstration data, check anything it works out, and don't use it to send real returns, payroll submissions, VAT returns or company accounts yet.
02 The apps
Everything a small practice does, in its own app
A start page and five apps, grouped as the work is: accounts, tax and payroll. Install the ones you need; add the others later.
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Start page
Full Compass Accountancy Suite
Your clients across the apps, the practice's deadlines, and every app one click away.
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Accounts production
Full Compass Accounts
Postings, trial balance and statutory accounts for companies, sole traders and partnerships.
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Bookkeeping and VAT
Full Compass Books
Invoices, bills, banking and VAT returns, kept on the same chart of accounts as the accounts.
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Corporation tax
Full Compass Business Tax
Tax computations and CT600 returns from the accounts, and sole traders' self-employment pages.
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Self Assessment
Full Compass Personal Tax
Self Assessment computations and returns, with sole traders' figures taken from Business Tax.
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Payroll
Full Compass Pay
PAYE, National Insurance, statutory pay, pensions and RTI for the companies on the payroll.
03 Shared by every app
Built the careful way
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One record for each client
A company's, partnership's or sole trader's details are entered once, on the start page, and set up in the apps you tick. Figures flow on: the books into the accounts, the accounts into the tax computation, a sole trader's profits into their return.
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Your data stays with you
Everything is kept in one data file on your own computer, with payroll in its own file beside it. There is no account to create with us and nothing in the cloud.
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Worked from the law
Each calculation is built from UK legislation and HMRC's published guidance, with its source recorded, and checked by hand-worked examples and HMRC's own test cases where HMRC publishes them.
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Kept up to date from the start page
When a new version is out, the start page offers Update, or Update all. It backs up your data file first, and checks every download against a signed list.
04 Get started
Up and running in a few minutes
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Download the setup
One file, about 80 MB, for Windows 10 and 11.
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Tick the apps you want
Install just for you, with no administrator needed. Add more apps later from the start page.
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Try the demonstration data
Help > Load Demonstration Data fills an empty data file with made-up clients to look around.