Home Budget 2007 Company Profile Services Accountancy Zone Business Zone Tax Zone IR35 Update News Articles Feedback Search Legal Notice How To Find Us If it's performed well, this can offer you real value in understanding how your business is performing and whether the proper controls are in place so you don't lose out. Not only can we provide you with this information, we can also analyse and interpret it so you can use it to make the right decisions for your business. Key Benefits Understand how your business is performing Ensure that your risk is managed properly Use the information positively to grow your business Accountancy Services We can relieve you and your staff of an enormous burden by taking care of all your bookkeeping and accounting needs, including the preparation of your annual accounts. Firstly, we gain a full understanding of your particular business circumstances. After all, how can we start to offer any meaningful interpretation of your performance without fully appreciating the commercial environment in which you operate? Then we can tailor our approach to suit your specific requirements. As well as basic bookkeeping services, we can also maintain your VAT records. Also, and most importantly, we can prepare management accounts that will help you steer your business to financial success. We will discuss these with you on a regular basis and offer meaningful suggestions as to how you can improve performance. Finally, we will prepare your annual financial statements in the format required by the various regulatory bodies which frees you up to concentrate on making money. Audit Services As auditors, we provide independent, objective and well-respected opinion on the reliability of financial information. However, in today's competitive world you need more from us than just assurance on your financial statements. As a business you need to know how you are performing, and where you can improve. You need to have direction and solid, reliable advice built on an understanding, not only of the way you operate, but also of your own industry sector. This is how our audit approach is evolving to help you. What you get How we do it An audit for the future What you get A better audit. We work with you to understand and agree how your business operates so that our multi-skilled team is better able to identify many of the potential business risks which, if not managed effectively, could translate into financial loss. It also means we are able to concentrate our efforts on those areas you agree are critical to your business so that we can make the audit cost-effective. As part of this wider business perspective, we are also able to give you insights which will help going forward. For example, our audit will allow us to assess how you are managing many of the key risks in your business. Also, our focus on processes allows us to assess how you are performing against your own key indicators and also against the best in your industry and the marketplace. How we do it Over the years we have been working with clients to provide a more valuable service. This experience can be put to good use in that we can broaden our perspective and utilise specific industry experience in giving you an effective engagement. In addition: We use the right people for the right job by building a team appropriately skilled to meet the needs of your business. As business issues arise, we involve specialists. If we need to understand and address a unique process or industry issue, we will find the right person with the knowledge to provide a solution. We take the business and industry knowledge that we hold and use it as an integral part of our audit approach. To deliver this approach we continue to develop practical, effective technology which enables our teams to optimise their work to your advantage. We are also rigorous in maintaining strict confidentiality. An audit for the future It's more important than ever that we work with you to achieve the most we can from the audit. To this end we will follow a programme which: Allows us to understand the internal and external forces which impact your business, for example, your markets, processes, core products and services and customer base. Highlights the high level risks and how you address these. Establishes what impact your key processes have, what is critical to their success and the risks if they do not perform and allows us to see what performance measures and controls are in place. Takes these performance measures and assesses how well you are controlling the key business processes against your own targets. Identifies key areas of business improvement