Boot the Accountant?

[Ruprect]

Oh thanks for your profound reasoning. You know what, I feel so enlightened. If only I had your clarity of thought, then I wouldn't be in this fine mess. Go and patronise someone else.

How to win friends and influence people, part 1.

[chicane]

How to win friends and influence people, part 1.

Quite.

Something tells me that my feedback wasn't appreciated.

[eddiegee]

Whilst I acknowledge that the PCG is a nonprofit organisation with no dubious agenda, what you did was no more clever than picking a random builder from the Yellow Pages due to their membership of "Federation of Master Builders" or some other meaningless trade body.

Next time, do some research or get a recommendation. This, by the way, applies to all significant supplier selections you'll make in the future.

See, your the type of person i don’t understand, you think your so clever. The PCG is a respectable accreditation for any accountancy to have, and is well recognised for referring the best accountants.

[TheFaQQer]

And before I forget, name and shame. If they're rubbish the PCG should be recommending them. Unless it's just a human error which happens to all of us.

Is that really what you meant to say?

[TheFaQQer]

See, your the type of person i don’t understand, you think your so clever. The PCG is a respectable accreditation for any accountancy to have, and is well recognised for referring the best accountants.

you're

HTH.

[chicane]

See, your the type of person i don’t understand, you think your so clever. The PCG is a respectable accreditation for any accountancy to have, and is well recognised for referring the best accountants.

Yes - except that your claims directly contradict the experiences of the OP. By the way, my apologies for being the type of person you don't understand.

[eddiegee]

Yes - except that your claims directly contradict the experiences of the OP. By the way, my apologies for being the type of person you don't understand.

do you even know what the PCG is you muppet

[philip@wellwoodhoyle]

After a lot of decision making, phone calls, and meeting various accountants, I decided to go with a local accountant affiliated with PCG.

Affiliated = a firm that simply pays their fee to PCG to be included on their database of accountants - no vetting etc - anyone can do that.

Accredited = a firm that has actually been through the PCG's accreditation process - implies a certain amount of vetting.

[Old Greg]

Just to add to Simon:

I have a named person at SJD who I deal with all the time unless he is on holiday. He's very good and I get a personal service. What I don't have is someone just down the road whose office I can pop into any time I want to I assume I could pop into SJD's office but it's 40 minutes away by train and I've never felt the need to. Someone did come round to my home office when I joined and I think I would probably like to have a face to face meeting once a year and I can't see that being a problem.

So if you want someone on your local high street, SJD and Nixon Williams probably aren't for you. But ask yourself: is your local accountant best placed to offer you the very particular tax advice (on top of accounting) tat contracting through your Ltd. requires?