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Butler and Co (Bishops Waltham) Ltd are a firm of Chartered Accountants near Southampton that started as a partnership in 1986 and “converted” to a Ltd Company in 2005.

The majority of their clients are in the area surrounding Bishops Waltham including Southampton, Fareham, Portsmouth, Waterlooville and Winchester although they have clients across the South of England as well.  Their clients cover many industry sectors including agriculture; construction; manufacturing; professionals; retailing and the service sector with businesses of many sizes.

Their director, Stephen Slater has particular expertise in business start-ups, incorporating businesses and accounting for public houses.

Butler and Co (Bishops Waltham) Ltd are a firm of Chartered Accountants near Southampton that started as a partnership in 1986 and “converted” to a Ltd Company in 2005.

The majority of their clients are in the area surrounding Bishops Waltham including Southampton, Fareham, Portsmouth, Waterlooville and Winchester although they have clients across the South of England as well.  Their clients cover many industry sectors including agriculture; construction; manufacturing; professionals; retailing and the service sector with businesses of many sizes.

Their director, Stephen Slater has particular expertise in business start-ups, incorporating businesses and accounting for public houses.

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Alan Solomons and Co are a firm of Chartered Accountants in Harrow that were established in 1982 and specialise in small and family owned businesses both locally and across London (and even further afield).  With over 28 years of experience they pride themselves on being amongst the early adopters of the best in business development and investment practice and work hard to remain in the forefront of modern trends, developments and legislation.

In addition to acting as Chartered Accountants for their clients – they are also registered independent financial advisors working in the tax planning, inheritance, insurance and investment strategy fields.

Based in offices in Harrow on the Hill, Alan Solomons + Co are well situated to deal with clients in all of the surrounding areas including South Harrow, Ruislip, Pinner, Rayners Lane, Kenton and across the rest of London.

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Grant and Co are a firm of Chartered Accountants in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire that was established in 1995 by Matthew Gray, who having trained and worked for one of the larger firms in the area, became disillusioned with the corporate, fee obsessed approach to clients and wanted to offer a more personal, client oriented service.

As such, in addition to acting as accountants for individuals Grant and Co specialise in in dealing with small to medium-sized owner managed businesses. Using their considerable experience in this sector they can tailor their advice and services so that they match the needs of the individual business.

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Davies Tracey and Co are a firm of Chartered Accountants in Stockton-on-Tees who were established in 2002 and serve clients not only in Stockton but across the Tees Valley and through-out Cleveland.

Their clients range from individuals requiring a full support service to multi-million pound companies that need ongoing assistance and advice. Since the company’s formation they have covered a wide range of professions across most business sectors.

As well as the normal accounts and management services offered by the vast majority of accountants they will review remuneration packages to ensure that the most efficient methods for saving tax are used within your business.  This review includes the use of dividends, pension contributions, salary and benefits in kind.

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Gareth Hughes & Co are an independent firm of Chartered Accountants in Conwy, North Wales providing accountancy and tax services to a wide variety of business and private clients across the area.

Established in 1996 their approach to each client is the same – they aim to build a close working relationship based on their understanding of the clients’ unique needs.  As with many firms of accountants their clients include businesses of all types and sizes, from sole traders right through to major limited companies but as can be seen from their website, they have particular experience of working with caravan parks; care homes; engineering firms and property letting agencies/landlords.

20:20 Accountancy are a modern firm of Accountants in Bournemouth that is a “new style accountancy firm” designed to meet the demands of 21st century business whether it be sole traders or small businesses.

They believe in keeping all of their services as simple and user-friendly as possible. To this end, their clear and highly competitive ‘no extras’ fee structure is tailored to each individual client’s needs.

With a stated mission of providing a business-focussed accounts service to help you, increase your bottom-line profitability, and increase your personal wealth whether you are looking for an  Accountant for sole traders or a growing company.

Rodgers Weir & Co are a firm of Accountants in Belfast who aim to provide clients with more than the traditional accountancy and tax services offered by the more established firms of accountants.

Rodgers Weir & Co are a new firm of Accountants in Belfast who aim to provide clients with more than the traditional accountancy and tax services offered by the more established firms of accountants.

They aim to offer a proactive advice about every element of the client’s business working on the basis of responding to the clients demands promptly and providing timely solutions; providing fee quotations that will be honoured and bringing new solutions to clients on a regular basis throughout the year via free seminars and updates.

With over 50 years of combined experience in accountancy and tax, the two partners – Clifford Rodgers and Jeremy Weir have the knowledge and skills to provide a comprehensive ranges of accountancy services and business advice to clients from their offices in the centre of Belfast.

Tiffin Green are a firm of Chartered Certified Accountants in Brentwood, Essex that know and understand that you deserve value for money, your statutory obligations fulfilled and professional advice & guidance from a qualified accountant who understands your business.

Not only do Tiffin Green do all the usual tax, bookkeeping, accounts, payroll and VAT work that you expect from your accountant they also specialise in the needs of small-medium sized businesses especially those owner managed businesses in the construction, IT, leisure, manufacturing and retail areas.

Another important service that Tiffin Green offers is the provision of  pension scheme audits for schemes across the UK.  This is offered by a dedicated pension team that are very experiences Auditors and Accountants.  They do not use junior staff on pension scheme audits meaning that you benefit from a faster more focused audit.

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We have now listed over 150 (690 as of 25th April 2019) accountants websites on our blog ranging from sites for very small practices right up to national accountancy practices.  With an estimated 20,000+ firms of accountants here in the UK and with  most of these having a website of some shape or other we have only really scratched the surface in our attempt to list accountancy websites for accountants throughout the UK.

Having looked at many sites now it is interesting that the most successful sites seem to be more than just a single page (although there are many such websites out there) and follow the principle that people buy from people and also that people are looking for help when they visit a site – this help can be something as simple as looking for someone to fill in a tax form right through to someone who is looking for a specialist service such as accounting for foster carers, audits of FSTE100 firms or even accounting for the new academies that are springing up around the country.

By focusing on what the visitor is looking for and how the accountant can help them rather than what the accountant does it makes the visitor feel that their interests will be looked after – and having photos of the senior staff on the site also lets the visitor put a face to a name on the initial contact.

Another advantage that many sites have is that they have a lot of factsheets, resources and calculators on the site – some sites seem to lock the fact sheets meaning that  you have to sign up to view them (and thus give your name and email address) while others give the information away freely.  There are, of course, advantages in both of these methods, by asking the visitor to sign up the accountant gains some contact details, by giving the information away freely the visitor can see the quality of advice being given and there can be a subconscious thought that “I owe this site something as they gave me something for free”.

If you are an accountant looking for a new accountancy website in the UK you have several options, you could build a site yourself; ask a local designer (or a client) to build a site for you; or you could use one of the firms that specialise in accountancy websites – there are a small handful of such firms in the UK and include totalSOLUTION (who are linked with Mercia and Accsys Digital Ltd) and PracticeTrack Online amongst others.