Blue Marble Business Services is a small accounting and bookkeeping practice based at Ashley Heath, on the edge of Ringwood, with more than ten years spent looking after small and growing businesses across Hampshire and Dorset.

We started it because too many small businesses were getting the same deal from bigger firms: a set of accounts nine months after the year end, an invoice for every phone call, and no idea what the numbers meant. That is a filing service, not an accountant.

So we kept the practice small on purpose. You get the same person every time, the work is done by the person you speak to, and we would rather tell you something useful in March than something accurate in December.

The name comes from the photograph of Earth taken from Apollo 17 — the first time anyone saw the whole thing at once. That is the job, more or less. Most owners see fragments: the bank balance, the VAT bill, the last invoice that landed. Our job is to put the whole picture in front of you, in focus, while there is still time to do something about it.