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HI

Can anyone recommend a good accountant, you can email direct if you like.

ta
D2001

The Top 50 in 2013
Rank 2013
(2012)   Name of firm   UK Fee
Income (£m)   % change (vs 2012)   Year end   UK
partners   Fees per
partner (£m)
[1] Estimated figures
[2] BDO merged with PKF on 28 March. Figures include 12 months' BDO, and three months' PKF
[3] Numbers exclude financial services division - no longer part of the firm
[4] Figures include Guernsey
[5] Discontinued a section of the business - restated figures to £60.6m
[6] During the period, the LLP was recharged £6.6m from Zolfo Cooper Limited, a member of the LLP. Figures obtained from accounts filed at Companies House
[7] 11 months' actual - one month estimate
[8] Figures based on TaxAssist Direct UK
[9] Nine months' actual, three months' estimated
[10]Figures estimated by Accountancy Age and sources from the profession
[11] Baker Tilly were unable to supply any new information. Figures are based on last year's entry

1 (1)   PwC   2,621.0   7.00   30/06/12   872   2.62
2 (2)   Deloitte   2,329.0   11.00   31/05/12   1011   2.30
3 (3)   KPMG   1,774.0   4.00   30/09/12   578   2.95
4 (4)   Ernst & Young   1,630.0   11.00   30/06/12   549   2.97
5 (5)   Grant Thornton UK [1]   460.0   10.30   30/06/13   200   2.30
6 (6)   BDO [2]   302.6   7.5   30/06/13   252   1.20
7 (7)   RSM Tenon Group   207.0   -12.00   31/12/12   219   0.95
8 (   Smith & Williamson   185.7   4.00   30/04/13   261   0.71
9 (9)   Baker Tilly [11]   171.0   -5.00   31/03/12   107   1.60
10 (10)   Moore Stephens UK   135.9   -1.70   31/12/12   155   0.88
11 (11)   Mazars   120.0   4.90   31/08/13   118   1.02
12 (13)   Haines Watts [3]   60.8   4.80   31/03/13   115   0.53
13 (15)   Crowe Clark Whitehill   60.7   2.40   30/04/13   69   0.88
14 (16)   Saffery Champness [4]   58.9   5.0   31/03/13   65   0.91
15 (14)   Begbies Traynor [5]   57.7   -4.6   30/04/13   71   0.78
16 (17)   UHY Hacker Young   48.3   -1.0   30/04/13   80   0.60
17 (18)   Kingston Smith   40.4   -0.7   30/04/13   62   0.65
18 (-)   Zolfo Cooper [6]   39.8   53.9   31/03/12   38   1.05
19 (19)   MHA MacIntyre Hudson    39.3   11.6   31/03/13     45   0.87
20 (21)   Johnston Carmichael [7]   33.1   11.7   31/05/13   53   0.62
21 (20)   Wilkins Kennedy    31.5   4.1   30/04/13   59   0.53
22 (22)   Chantrey Vellacott DFK    30.4   4.8   31/12/13   42   0.72
23 (23)   Menzies    28.5   0   30/06/12   33   0.86
24 (28)   Francis Clark    25.6   21.0   31/03/13   47   0.54
25 (25)   Buzzacott   25.4   7.5   30/09/12   23   1.1
26 (26)   TaxAssist Accountants [8]    24.5   12.4   31/12/12   189   0.13
27 (24)   HW Fisher & Company    23.7   0   30/04/12   29   0.82
28 (26)   FRP Advisory    21.5   -1.2   30/04/13   28   0.77
29 (30)   Price Bailey   21.0   7.7   31/03/13   21   1.0
30 (32)   Frank Hirth [9]   20.7   10.1   30/06/13   20    1.04
31 (29)   Reeves & Co [1]   20.3   0.0   31/05/13   40   0.51
=32 (34)   SJD Accountancy    19.0   8.0   31/10/13   1   19
=32 (30)   Rawlinson & Hunter [10]   19.0   -2.6   -   -   -
34 (33)   Armstrong Watson    18.8   4.0   31/03/13   33   0.57
35 (35)   Haysmacintryre    18.3   5.2   31/03/13   26   0.71
36 (37)   Duncan & Toplis   17.8   1.4   31/03/13   26   0.66
37 (36)   Hazlewoods    17.1   12.6   30/04/13   
24
0.71
=38 (38)   Streets    16.7   1.0   30/06/13   22   0.76
=38(42)   Anderson Anderson & Brown    16.7   17.9   31/03/13   12   1.39
40 (46)   Bishop Fleming [7]   16.3   23.0   31/05/13   25   0.65
41 (38)   Littlejohn   16.2   -1.0   31/05/12   32   0.51
=42 (40)   Cooper Parry    15.5   -1.8    30/04/13   22   0.71
=42 (43)   Lovewell Blake    15.5   11.7   30/09/12   26   0.54
44 (41)   Leonard Curtis    15.0   0   30/04/13   14   1.07
45 (45)   Larking Gowen    13.7   1.4   31/03/13   20   0.68
46 (-)   The Old Mill [10]   12.5   -    -    11   -
47 (47)   Mercer & Hole    12.4   2.6   31/03/12   19   0.65
=47 (-)   ASE    12.4   6.8   31/12/12   8   1.54
49 (44)   Shipleys   12.3   -9.9   30/04/13   15   0.77
50 (48)   Barnes Roffe   12.2   4.5   31/12/12   18   0.68

Silly.

Let's assume that d2001 wants someone local, rather than a multinational... so, close to me, there's this dude called Jim... he's a one-man-band type, but really friendly and I've even been for a pint with him. I don't know if he's a real Accountant, but he claims he is and I'd trust him 'cos, as I say, I've had a pint with him and he's always talking in percentages. Obviously he only covers Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Doncaster, but I'm assuming this will be OK for you, if my assumption about you wanting a local Accountant, for local people, is correct.

Jim's your man! Gotta be better than Lovewell Blake which, frankly, sounds a little bit dodgy.

I know Jim. He does the sheep nails in the Autumn in Cornwall.

Do any one know of any good prostitutes?

Not for me you understand but for a "friend"