Stern and Co – Ealing, West London

Stern and Co are a firm of Accountants in Ealing, West London that was formed in 1985 and have clients throughout London and the surrounding areas.

They have a team of highly experienced individuals who are committed to providing timely advice with a personal service tailored specifically to your needs.

As you will see from their website, they offer a wide range of services, helping their business clients to achieve greater profitability, and their individual clients to enhance and protect their wealth.

In addition to services for individuals and smaller businesses, they have specialists that deal with medium and large businesses, including international services aimed at helping overseas firms that need advice when starting up a UK business and also an increasingly popular forensic accounting service.

Edmund Carr LLP – Chelmsford, Essex

Edmund Carr LLP are a firm of accountants based in Chelmsford, Essex that were formed in 1953.

As well as general accountancy and tax advice to local businesses they have several specialisms including agriculture, charities, FSA regulated bsuinesses, and pension audits. One of their largest teams, headed by two partners act as accountants to the medical profession, both in Chelmsford, Essex and further afield. In addition to accountancy and taxation services they provide comparatives of practice income and statistics, drawings calculations, personal expense claims, superannuation and advice on partnership deeds.

With their partner lead approach, they pride ourselves in giving a personal, but professional service to all of their clients. They aim to acquire a full understanding of their clients circumstances so that they can provide a high quality service tailored to their clients’ specific needs, be that tax advice, audits or accountancy in Chelmsford or anywhere else in the region.

Purves Chartered Accountants – Melrose, Roxburghshire

Purves Chartered Accountants, based in Melrose, are more than just accountants, tax experts and corporate finance specialists.  The background of many of the staff mean that they are commercially aware and work together as a team to add more value to your business.

As experienced business advisers they are able to look at the whole picture meaning that the advice and services that they provide is right for your business no matter what size your business is.

Unusally for a firm of accountants, Purves, has a direct link to a business angel syndicate (Tri Capital) and has been involved in playing a part in all the deals put together by the syndicate.  This means that if you are looking for corporate finance in the Borders but do not want to have to go to and pay Edinburgh prices it would be worth talking to Purves about your plans and needs.

In addition to the normal (and corporate finance) services Purves has specialist knowledge of many industry sectors gained over the years – these areas include :-

• Business Angels
• Construction
• Dental
• Hotels, Pubs, Restaurants & Leisure
• Motor Industry
• New Start-ups
• Owner Managed
• Printing
• Retail
• Service sector
• Engineering
• Small tradesmen (and women)

So, if you are looking for a firm of Accountants in Melrose, you should consider talking to the staff at Purves.

Clarified ISAs

The new Clarified International Standards on Auditing replaced previous UK and Irish auditing standards and are effective for audits of financial statements for periods ending on or after 15 December 2010.

The new clarified ISAs introduced significant changes to audits and will therefore require a lot of effort and work by audit firms to ensure they implement and understand the new standards.  If you are concerned about training your team, your routine or specialist audits, or receiving a clean bill of health from your governing body the Mercia Group can help plug the gaps.

Mercia can do this by running a Clarified ISA Coaching session that can either be done on a one-to one basis or alternatively as a training exercise to a small group. The session will be carried out in your offices using one of your own audit files.

Alan Clark Accountancy Services – Kidlington, Oxford

Alan Clark Accountancy Services is a firm of Accountants with offices in Kidlington, Oxfordshire that provides accounts, business advice, taxation and support services to a range of businesses, charities and individuals in the Oxford area.

As a firm of Oxford Accountants they offer a fixed price quotation system where, once they have established your requirements they will quote you a price meaning that you can be sure how much your accountancy bill be will for the coming year.  This can be done as part of a free initial consultation that can last for up to an hour during which time they wil discuss with you both the history and future prospects & and your plans for your business.

With gauranteed service levels covering costs, speed of response to questions and other service levels, if you are based in, or around the Oxfordshire, it would be worth talking to Alan Clark Accountancy Services if you are looking for an accountant.