A & N Chartered Accountants

Owner-managed businesses that are growing, many of them small limited companies, make up most of the clients of A & N Chartered Accountants, with some private individuals alongside them. The practice works from Haslemere in Surrey and frames its service as a personal one, built around each client's vision and the particular challenges that vision faces. The firm describes its mission as using its understanding of a client's business to help that client reach its most important business and personal goals.

Audit, assurance and regulated work

A & N is registered to carry on audit work in the UK and carries out statutory audit as a registered auditor. The chartered accountants' body for England and Wales also regulates it for a range of investment business activities. It trades as A & N Chartered Accountants and has helped people and businesses for more than thirty years.

Accounts, tax and HMRC compliance

Routine work includes annual accounts, tax returns and the filings needed to stay compliant with HMRC. Management accounts give owners regular figures on how the business is performing, so decisions rest on current numbers rather than on the year-end result. Back office support takes over finance administration for clients who want it outsourced, freeing owners and their own teams for the work of running the company.

Advice through growth and change

Business advice and consulting is aimed at companies going through growth or change. The firm treats this as guidance rather than bookkeeping, so the advice covers what a company's figures mean for its next step. Its view is that a company is defined by the vision behind its figures, which is why its advice starts from each client's aims and works back to the numbers.

Valuations and forensic work

Specialist services include company valuations and forensic work. The firm invites clients with urgent needs for specialist support, forensic services or valuations to call it directly. Those services sit alongside everyday accounts work, so a client who needs a valuation for a sale or a dispute does not have to find a second adviser.