PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 2017 RICHARDSON SWIFT Director Jon Miles
Tell us about the work you do... As entrepreneurs ourselves, we strive to be more than just number-crunching accountants. We work with a variety of businesses from high tech start-ups through to multi-million pound enterprises. As a firm, we regularly lend our support to Bath’s business community and in 2016 helped nurture 60 local start-ups as part of our partnership with the Bath University Innovation Centre. This included facilitating early-stage funding for the Bath coffee app company Ordo. What recent achievements are you particularly proud of? The past year has been tremendous for us as a business, with our highest ever turnover growth of 25 per cent in the last five months of 2016 alone. This growth is largely influenced by a record number of client wins across the business, which have mainly come from referrals and word-of-mouth recommendations. We were also thrilled to be Bath Life 2017 finalists. Any changes or developments planned for the firm? We will undoubtedly need to take on more staff to expand our teams as we grow. We’re advising a high proportion of mature businesses looking to move to the next level, be it through raising finance, restructuring, making acquisitions, or succession and exit planning. We’re also experiencing a growing demand for our Cloud Accounting and Outsourcing services.
Top: The successful team at Richardson Swift are looking to increase their numbers; below: Craig Jenkins of TSL Accounting works with local artists, writers and poets
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TSL ACCOUNTING
Managing Director Craig Jenkins
Who are TSL? Established in 1987, TSL is one of the largest chartered management accounting firms in the UK operating from two offices in Bath and Stroud, providing a full range of accounting and management consultancy services. Locally, we specialise in charities, the arts and media, including writers, artists, sculptors, designers, screenwriters and poets. Tell us about some recent jobs… During the last few months we have been helping the award-winning Bath-based 44AD gallery and artspace with its financial planning and structure as well as its conversion into a registered charity. At the other end of the scale, we have set up, and now run from our Bath offices, a complete UK branch operation for an international listed company called Tyratech Inc. What’s coming up for TSL over the next few years? Working closely with one of our clients Pangolin Editions, Europe’s largest fine art foundry, we have helped to deliver the latest and most exciting Damien Hirst exhibition due to open in Venice on 9 April. We are looking to stage a major sculpture event in Bath in a couple of years’ time, featuring both local and international sculptors. www.tslaccounting.co.uk
FINANCIAL SERVICES BECKFORD JAMES LLP Partner Patricia Lake
What’s different about the way you work? As chartered financial planners, we pride ourselves on our technical expertise across a range of disciplines, from trust and personal w 124 I BATH LIFE I www.mediaclash.co.uk