About Forbes
As Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors we specialize in providing Corporate and personal tax, accounting, audit and planning services to businesses with a turnover between £100,000 and £2million. Normally these would be family businesses managed by their owners.
We operate payroll and VAT services for number of clients but we do not normally carry out basic bookkeeping – and we generally refer work on Trusts, Insolvency or Pensions to specialists we know in these areas. As our clients can tell you, this doesn’t mean we leave them to get on with it – far from it! We are proud of how we have helped numerous clients through complex situations and out the other side.
We also have long-standing larger clients for whom we get involved in matters as diverse as acting as Non-executive finance director across several continents, managing business planning systems, where stock purchase planning is integrated into cash flow and balance sheet management; and negotiation and due diligence on acquisitions and investments: work stemming directly from our founder’s commercial knowledge and background.
After qualifying in the 1970s, and working for an International firm, John Forbes moved to industry where he worked as General Manager in a leading Company followed by 10 years as Group Finance Director of an International group.
That’s why we understand a client's business from a different perspective than Accountants who have spent their whole lives working in an Accounting Practice; this drives the approach of our whole team
We have been there and done it – so let us help you determine how your business will operate, what its financial results will be and what cash you will have and why - or what you will need to borrow - in different scenarios, so you can drive your future rather than react. This way you won't confuse business planning with crisis management.
Do you have a budget that lets you see the financial outcome of decisions; determine when you need additional finance or staff before the need is upon you so that you can manage your future?
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