All about
Allens
Accountants
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Philosophy:
Founded in 1978 and now managed by six partners, Allens Chartered Accountants now employ over 50 members of staff from our Stockport office.
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We have constantly found that many businesses are with accountants who are either too small to cover all the important areas of financial advice or simply too big to care.
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Our mission is to 'start where other accountants finish'. Over the years, we have discovered that we can make a massive difference to business welfare by really making the effort to fully understand both the client's business and the range of financial opportunities that can apply.
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The Extra Mile...
Many accountancy firms just do what they have to do to stay within their agreed time and fee. So they fail to go the extra mile that can unearth the value that more than covers the cost of the annual fee. But at Allens we focus on value rather than time. Whatever it takes, we do.
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We find that our approach can make a massive difference to our clients. For example:
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We saved £2.5m on a single tax planning assignment
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We’ve recovered over £1m in capital allowances and R&D tax relief for our clients
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It’s estimated that 96% of commercial property capital allowance entitlements aren’t claimed
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HMRC statistics show that only 0.38% of companies are making R&D claims
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We transformed large irrecoverable stock market losses into a recoverable tax loss claim by the restructure of a franchise business
Fee Guarantee:
How confident are we in our ability to unearth the value in your business?
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We’re so confident that we’ll deliver great value that we offer our 'fee guarantee'.
If you’re not totally and utterly happy with our services, we will either refund the fee or accept a portion of the agreed fee that fairly reflects your level of satisfaction.
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You decide.
“Allens have really helped us grow our business...”
Muriel Thorne,
Oakwood Corporate Services
People:
So how do you stand out in an increasingly commoditised environment? People. Real people.
Real people who really do start where many accountants often finish.
Simon Leigh
MANAGING PARTNER
Chartered Accountant and a Qualified Financial Adviser. My mission is to help businesses to survive, thrive, prosper and sell.
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Contact Simon:
Paul Horrocks
PARTNER
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Paul has been at Allens since 1996 and is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser and a Qualified Financial Adviser.
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Contact Paul:
Ben Furness
PARTNER
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A Chartered Accountant who specialises in Tax planning for Owner Managed Businesses eg. Business structure, Profit extraction, business sales, retirement, Property tax.
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Contact Ben:
Dean McMullan
PARTNER
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Dean started at Allens April 2007. His specialist industries include Recruitment, Solicitors, Contractors, Insurance Brokers and Logistics. Allen’s resident expert in cloud accounting, Xero, FreeAgent and SageOne.
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Contact Dean:
Damien Smith
PARTNER
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Damien is a Chartered Accountant and manages payroll and compliance service for clients on all things PAYE.
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Contact Damien:
Paul Scott
PARTNER
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Paul has been at Allens since 2008 and is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor.
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Contact Paul:
Training and Excellence:
At Allens, we are fully committed to training our people and as such, we don’t hire staff from other accountancy firms, we grow our own! We invest lots of time and money training our staff to be the best there is, at every stage.
Our home-grown directors are the best evidence of our success and commitment to our recruitment and training policies.
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Our Training Philosophy:
Allens’ training programme is designed to bring out the best in our people.
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Day to day training is provided from day one - the best way to train is ‘on the job’ and that is just what happens here at Allens. You will be provided with the full support of our Training Managers, whilst given the opportunity to learn the job in a live situation.
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We don’t believe that the only person capable of dealing effectively with our clients is the director that primarily deals with them; you will be given the freedom to make contact with clients and build relationships with them as you are completing the accounts work on their behalf.
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On each client’s job that you work on, you will have direct and regular contact with the appropriate Allens director and will be able to liaise with them as the work is done, through to reviewing the job and getting it completed.
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We are very proud of our record of progression available to all of our people. Five of Allens’ current directors are ‘home grown’, all having joined Allens straight from education and worked their way up through the business.