Are you using a faceless firm that doesn't deliver a personal service?

At Gowers we pride ourselves in retaining that personal touch with ALL of our clients from large corporate to sole trader.

While it is madness to suggest that a massive multinational can successfully engage anything much other than a massive multinational firm of auditors, accountants and tax advisers, small or medium-sized business owners need a significantly different relationship with their advisers.

Are you fed up with the audit juniors asking the same questions every year? – We ensure you have continuity of contact with a team which will work and grow with you according to your needs and understand you and your systems.

Do you find it difficult to get hold of your ‘contact partner’? – Our systems are designed to make sure that, in the absence of your main contact we can, nonetheless, deal with your query. As a matter of policy we always ring back if you ask us to!

How can a small firm have the necessary experience to advise me and my company? – We have been around for a long time. Our team has wide and long-standing experience of business and business development and we do more comprehensive tax planning, both in the UK and internationally, than most firms of similar apparent size. Our emphasis on a small but highly qualified team gives us an almost unique ability to apply our own first-hand knowledge to your particular situation.

Do you really need an accountant with an office in every town? – Most business-people need advisers who understand them and their needs. With modern technology the need to have your accountant in the next-door building is much less important. Whilst we, of course, have a good number of local clients our client base is also geographically widely spread. We have, and have had, clients as far afield as Australia, South Africa, the USA and Scandinavia as well as all over the UK, from Dumfries and Galloway to Cornwall. Distance is seldom a problem.

Do you have the resources to keep to a rigorous and rapid reporting timetable for our directors or overseas holding company? – This is no problem. We prefer to work to your timetable. For well over 20 years, for example, we have completed audited financial statements within five weeks of the year end for a UK subsidiary of a large multinational. Most organisations would rather have their compliance reporting done and dusted sooner rather than later and we deliver this routinely.

Are you able to deal with our complicated tax position? – We have dealt with everything from complex property capital gains issues, including confrontations with District Valuers, to special and complex Capital Allowances claims and substantial hive-down loss relief claims and have achieved a good success rate in dealing with complex negotiations with H M Revenue and Customs over many years.