Desperately looking for excellent ltd accountants - any advice?

[Fred Bloggs]

Given that I rate brookson as worse than Darren Upton in the dodgy practices department I wouldn't say so.

Those of us who have been around a long time will know what they started off as before HMRC legislated away their original business model.

I will never forget the clients who went weeks/months with no income and not a word of information about what was happening. IPSE's recent announcement regarding that firm are a disgrace and demonstrate how far IPSE is sliding in totally the wrong direction.

[eek]

I will never forget the clients who went weeks/months with no income and not a word of information about what was happening. IPSE's recent announcement regarding that firm are a disgrace and demonstrate how far IPSE is sliding in totally the wrong direction.

Worse it shows that they don't care who they associate themselves with for a few quid.

To TF and MS you can take that as the reason why I will only use IPSE as provider of back up tax insurance and cheap pension management.

[Fred Bloggs]

Worse it shows that they don't care who they associate themselves with for a few quid.

To TF and MS you can take that as the reason why I will only use IPSE as provider of back up tax insurance and cheap pension management.

Exactly. Except I disagree about the IPSE pension arrangement, cheap it is certainly not when you look seriously at what is available elsewhere.

[eek]

Exactly. Except I disagree about the IPSE pension arrangement, cheap it is certainly not when you look seriously at what is available elsewhere.

Will have to look further then. Any pension recommendations?

[TheFaQQer]

I will never forget the clients who went weeks/months with no income and not a word of information about what was happening. IPSE's recent announcement regarding that firm are a disgrace and demonstrate how far IPSE is sliding in totally the wrong direction.

Well this looks like a good opportunity to highlight the forthcoming CC elections - as a member's organisation, this is your chance (until the next BoD election this autumn) to get more involved and influence the organisation.

And you should raise your concerns with the executive as well.

[Waldorf]

Clearsky probably.

I wondered that but perhaps stupidly thought that the guy would know who he was recommending!

[Andy Hallett]

Genuine question: is there an evaluation process to get on your psl? How do you know these guys are any good?

Genuinely, yes. We go through a DD process. We look at their customer feedback and professional accreditations. We've experience of working with most of these companies as accountancy or brolly providers for years.

We operate a fair and open tender process which you welcome to apply a next review.

[Andy Hallett]

I wondered that but perhaps stupidly thought that the guy would know who he was recommending!

I suspect I was the victim of autocorrect

[mudskipper]

And you should raise your concerns with the executive as well.

WHS. I've just done a search on the IPSE forums, and I can't see any complaints about Brookson more recent than 2009, apart from the odd unsolicited call - people are reporting being happy with their services. If there are issues, then these should be raised through the appropriate channels.

[Fred Bloggs]

Will have to look further then. Any pension recommendations?

Yes, until recently I have recommended HL unreservedly and I still would for savers with fairly small amounts to invest. HL cost about the same as the IPSE scheme but (IMO) offers far more.

For savers with a significant chunk I suggest looking at Interactive Investor. I'm not going to recommend them as the rather hair shirt feel to them may not be everyone's cup of tea, but II are saving me over a £1000 per year compared to HL. For essentially the same thing.

If you're interested in this stuff, go and look at Fundmith's website. In particular, watch the video on the 2016 annual investor briefing. At 57 minutes in, Terry Smith (of Fundsmith) has interesting things to say about HL.