Whitakers Chartered Accountants – Newquay, Cornwall

Whitakers Chartered Accountants is a firm of Chartered Accountants  in Cornwall that has been providing excellent financial advice to their clients since 1935.  With offices in Newquay and St Columb Major they have clients across Cornwall.

As a long-standing Cornish firm, Whitakers have worked with a wide range of other Cornwall based businesses in many industry sectors throughout its history, as such they understand all types and sizes of businesses in the Duchy of Cornwall making them an excellent General Practice Firm able to help clients with all of their accountancy and business planning needs.

ACT Chartered Accountants – Crowthorne, Berkshire

ACT Chartered Accountants  is a professional and friendly firm of Chartered Accountants based in Crowthorne, Berkshire that specialises in helping businesses achieve their goals.

Set up in 2007 by Angela Turton to provide support to local businesses, they aim to assist clients in growing their business to whatever level they aspire to.   As a firm of Accountants, they are friendly, helpful and approachable, but backed up with technical knowledge, business acumen and an understanding of what it takes to run a small business in today’s world.  Their comprehensive range of financial and business support services and ongoing strategic advice has helped many of  their clients to grow and develop their businesses over the years.

Sole Associates Accountants Ltd – West Byfleet, Surrey

Sole Associates is an award-winning firm of Accountants in West Byfleet, Surrey that was established in 2010 with the aim of being at the forefront of a new generation of Accountants providing services that are of real value to their clients to help them overcome these challenging times and to thrive and are one of only 40 firms nationally to be included in Steve Pipe’s book, ‘The UK’s Best Accountancy Practices‘.

Sole Associates aims to be the most innovative and proactive firm of accountants in Surrey. Their first priority is to give outstanding client service and to provide these services in a way that is consistent with their clients’ individual needs.

Fitness Industry Accountants – Flintham, Newark on Trent

This is a different type of accountants than we normally blog about…  Fitness Industry Accountants, as the name suggests specialises in the Fitness Industry here in the UK and is an online firm meaning that you can contact them where-ever you are in the UK.

They have many clients of all sizes, across many disciplines including:

• Personal Trainers;
• Fitness Instructors;
• Zumba Instructors;
• Yoga Teachers;
• Fitness Presenters;
• Alternative Medicine;

One of the services that they offer is a tax return service aimed at Fitness Professionals with several packages aimed at different levels work – more details of this service is on their tax returns page

They have a series of videos on their site covering the tax rules that you might come across if you are a fitness instructor, yoga teacher etc, these short videos (between 50 seconds and 2 and a half minutes are presented by Andrew Crawford, the senior consultant at Fitness Industry Accountants.

Paul Slater – Northampton, Northamptonshire

Paul Slater and Co are a firm of Accountants in Northampton, established in 1992,  that are, using modern technology, able to be your accountant no matter where-ever you are in the UK, or even overseas.

They are experienced in providing Accounting, Audit, Taxation, Payroll, Vat, Company Registration, and Business Planning to the self-employed, small & medium-sized (SME) companies and private clients across the region as well as advice on how to improve and develop your business.

With many clients in the local Northamptonshire community they cover many industry sectors, including :-

• agriculture/horticulture;
• the professions;
• the service sector;
• the construction industry;
• manufacturers; and
• retailers.

 

Half Penny Accountants – Egham, Surrey

Half Penny Accountants are a progressive firm of Chartered Certified Accountants, business and tax advisers based in Egham, Surrey who endeavour to provide their clients with a first-class service – helping their business clients to achieve greater profitability, and their individual clients to enjoy greater wealth.

Their friendly team of professionals provide a wide range of accountancy, audit and advisory services to a diverse range of businesses and individuals not only in Egham but across the UK and even abroad.

Because each client is different Half Penny’s services are tailored to the clients individual needs so you don’t have to put up with a “one-size fits all” solution for your business.

DuncanNoice – Sheffield, South Yorkshire

DuncanNoice is a firm of  Chartered Accountants in Sheffield that brings together the varied experience of its partners to provide a fresh, modern service to its clients.

The staff and partners have worked within the Sheffield community for many years, and as a firm they endeavour to deliver ‘Big firm’ experience and expertise, whilst giving the responsiveness and personal relationships that only a smaller firm can offer and that businesses and individuals need.

Refreshingly, they list a sample of their fees on their website covering tax returns, company account production, bookkeeping, company formation, use as a registered office and payroll services.  More details of their fees can be seen at www.dnca.co.uk/fees.htm

McEwan Wallace – Birkenhead, Wirral, Lancashire

McEwan Wallace, based in Birkenhead, are the largest firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers in Wirral and as such have the capability to provide specialist advisers for all your needs.

They have several specialist divisions including tax planning, wealth management, business development and payroll and also cover specialist sectors such as the medical, legal and charity sectors.

Tracing their history back over 100 years they have built relationships with their clients that means that they get to know their clients and businesses inside-out thus ensuring that you are made aware of any new tax planning and business development opportunities that become available and that are suitable for your needs.

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Haines and Company – Reading, Berkshire and Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Haines & Company is a firm of Accountants in Reading and Wallingford that has been formed to provide accountancy, business consultancy and I.T. services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company was formed in 1994 by Barry Haines, who left his job as Finance Director of a company providing software and computer services to Futures Exchanges around the world, and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

As a smaller firm they have a much smaller number of clients than normal and are selective in the clients that they act for.  This means that they can get to know their clients businesses inside out, enabling them to easily identify problems and spot opportunities to help improve profits and encourage growth.