Bath accountancy firm Richardson Swift has boosted its senior management team with the appointment of Calvin Healy as a director. Calvin, pictured, has been promoted following a record year for the firm, during which its turnover grew by 25%. The qualified chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser joined the practice in 2014 having spent...
The West of England’s largest business organisation has called on all candidates in next week’s Metro Mayor election to show they will deliver long-term economic growth for the region. Business West, which includes the West of England Initiative and the chambers of commerce for Bristol, Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire, has...
Regional accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has welcomed the scrapping of the government’s controversial plans to digitalise the tax system and force business to make quarterly online returns. The scheme, which was due to be introduced in April next year have been dropped due to the upcoming General Election. Bishop Fleming, which has an office...
The government must convince businesses in Bath that the snap General Election called for by Prime Minister Theresa May today won’t scupper vital talks with the EU over Brexit, the region’s largest business organisation said. In an immediate response to Mrs May’s announcement this morning that she is seeking a General Election on June 8,...
Broadcaster and journalist Jeremy Vine will be the guest speaker at this year’s ICAEW West of England’s annual dinner – one of the most popular events in the region’s business calendar. More than 400 business figures and guests from the accountancy, professional services and wider business community will attend the dinner, which takes place...
Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first – and last – Spring Budget on March 8 as the tax policy-making process will move over to a single main Autumn Budget later this year with a Spring Statement expected in 2018, writes Pearson May partner Nick Oliver. Possibly as a result of this, and with one...
Somerset craft brewery The Wild Beer Co has raised almost twice its initial £1m crowdfunding target towards its new brewery and restaurant complex on the Bath & West Showground. The rapidly-expanding brewery has outgrown its current site on a dairy farm at Westcombe, near Shepton Mallet, and plans to develop a new, much-larger operation...
Sales coach and ‘entrepreneur’s godmother’ Alison Edgar and Jordan Daykin, the youngest person to secure investment on Dragons’ Den, have been named among the UK’s 100 unsung heroes who play an active role in supporting the country’s entrepreneurial community. The pair appear in the latest Power 100 compiled by accountancy and business advice group...
West firms have been given a unique glimpse of the top tech themes for this year – and the impact they are likely to have on business – at a special event staged by accountancy firm Deloitte. Ever-greater use of smartphones, digital navigation, machine learning and – on the downside – the growth in cyber crime were outlined...
Business advisors covering Bath are poised to deal with a wide range of concerns impacting on their clients following the triggering of Article 50 – from employment to tariffs and tax. They say the major worry – and one that is already affecting some firms – is the uncertainty over the status of EU...
