David Howard

Chartered Accountants & Business Advisors

Value Based Compliance Services

We believe that the core services within the Accountancy market are often expensive and in many old fashioned organisations Clients overpay for basic services and therefore cannot afford or are not offered the higher level advice and input they require.

How can we provide better value?

The question above is one which we are often asked and we think is probably one the most important things to understand as to why we are able to provide something different from the norm.

The answers lie partly in the way we have streamlined our own organisation in order to make ourselves as cost effective as possible. By doing this we can give basic compliance services at lower cost and therefore concentrate our time and effort on adding value to our clients through business and tax advice, systems development etc.

Because we have a high mix of IT literate and qualified staff we are able to work in a way which gives clients a greater balance of time from those staff and we can work positively at your business and needs rather than wasting time and cost on more mundane matters.

Underlying our streamlined business are good internal systems and also a considered approach to our staffing structure. Because of the strength of our systems and accessibility of data, we have been able to access quality resources at a relatively low cost to help drive our compliance prices down;

  • Overseas branch - In 2008 we setup an overseas branch in order to be able to access quality staff at a lower cost for our clients.  Hammad Jahangir (a top 4 Qualified ACA)  worked as a Senior Manager in  our Hampton Wick Office and now works remotely and seamlessly, managing our Branch Office. The day to day operation is identical to those working in the UK, using the same systems and procedures used in our UK offices. Using and integrated VOIP telephone system and remote desktop access to our servers, communication with clients and staff is no different to a UK based employee, but because of the cost savings available to us, we have been able to pass on significant cost savings to our clients.
 

Some other firms are using overseas workers by outsourcing lower level transaction input etc to third parties, but this often leads to problems controlling quality of work and communication, and this type of relationship is limited to lower level work, so restricting the cost savings which can be achieved. We believe our solution is much more cost effective, secure and consequently enables us to gives our clients a better and more efficient service.We are now able to employ staff at a significantly lower cost, under our own normal training structure, direct control and supervision.
  • Back to work Mums – we realised some years ago that there are a large number of mums with good skills but who find it difficult to find sufficient work time in and out of family responsibilities. Through our remote access and paperless approach we have been able to attract and train a number of staff. A small amount of training to highly receptive people can release them to give time in a flexible way that is invaluable to clients, and give them extra income.

We hope that we have given some flavour of the reasons we think we are a very different and new breed of organisation and would be pleased to talk to you more about how we can help you and your business.

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