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Audit Services

For an overview of our Charities Audit services read on, but for more information email Paul Bradbury – head of our Charities Audit and Accounts team.

Charities have different objectives to their commercial counterparts, but still require a strong management team supported by professional advisers in order to achieve their objectives. Booth Ainsworth offer the benefit of a professional team which will provide a prompt and efficient services of a high standard.

No two charities are identical and our philosophy is based on gaining a sufficiently detailed understanding of the charitable activities for each of our charity clients.

Many of the partners within the practice act as trustees of local charities. They are therefore ideally placed to give clients the benefit their first hand experience of business planning, fund-raising and the stewardship of the charities assets. We are also associates of Horwath Clark Whitehill who are the fastest growing charity accountancy practice in the UK.

Compliance

The Charities Act have considerably increased the compliance burden on unincorporated charities and in addition to helping the trustees to comply with their legal responsibilities we seek to provide pro-active advice to assist the trustees in reaching their objectives.

The accounting requirements for charities is changing constantly and up-to-date informatin can be found on The Charities Commission Website.

Our Services

As charities have diverse objectives, organisational structures and financial systems, we recognise the need to provide a focused service to our clients, which is tailored to meet the individual requirements of the charity and includes:

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Audit

We provide an efficient audit service to ensure compliance with both company and charities law and the recommended practice issued by accountancy bodies and the Charity Commission.We can also provide a training service for basic accounting and control issues to compliance and government requirements.

We can provide a flexible service for maintaining basic accounting records to the production of periodic management accounts including critical analysis and reporting thereon.

We can offer business planning including the preparation of budgets and cash flow costs and can assist with accurate monitoring of these reports. In addition we can offer assistance with IT and financial reporting systems, implementation and development.

Our comprehensive service to businesses provides the necessary expertise to advise on all taxation matters as they affect our charitable clients. Complex areas such as trading by charities and VAT issues often require planning and professional advice as appropriate.

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