Business Clients

Introduction

RPG has grown consistently over the last century by continuing to uphold its core values.

Director-led service

Across the Group we have 13 directors and 42 staff. This ratio ensures we deliver a director led service.

Putting client interests first

We work very hard to ensure that our clients' interests are at the forefront of everything we do in all areas of the Group's services. For this reason, we have relationships with many clients and introducers going back many decades.

Fees

Our business model is based upon directors and professional colleagues within the firm working hard to provide an effective service while maintaining professional standards at all levels. This means that we are able to deliver a very personal service at an affordable cost.

Accountancy Services

Our accountancy services include:

• Preparation of annual accounts
• Bookkeeping
• Management accounts
• VAT returns
• Payroll
• Budgets and cash flow forecasts
• Submission of accounts and tax returns to HMRC
• Provision of information to and liaising with banks and other funders

We aim to deliver:

• A Director-led service
• Qualified and highly experienced staff
• A competitive fee structure, conscious at all times that we are spending your money
• An ethos working towards developing and maintaining a long term relationships
• A service which will be there in difficult times, willing to invest our time to help you and your business
• Sophisticated computerised payroll bureau and accounts software
• A quality service to every client irrespective of size
• Access to in-house personal and business tax expertise

Start-up Advice

Our start-up advice includes:

• Assistance in the preparation of a business plan including detailed trading and cashflow forecasts
• Assistance on access to appropriate funders
• Assistance registering with HMRC and Companies House
• Monitoring and negotiating the costs from funders and other advisers

We aim to deliver:

• An initial free of charge meeting at director level which will identify your route to starting up in business.
• Access to a wide range of financial institutions using professional relationships developed over many years.
• A qualified and sufficiently experienced team to look after your affairs.
• Access to specialist advisors, e.g. for personal and business taxation.
• A proactive service, working with you throughout the year and not just at year end, to be sure that you take advantage of all the tax saving possibilities available.
• A fee arrangement that puts you in control of fees and not open to any nasty surprises when the invoice lands on your desk.

Assurance Services

Our assurance services include:

• Statutory audit
• Solicitors' Accounts Rules
• Charities
• Government Agencies
• Clubs and other not for profit organisations
• RICS and estate agents
• Internal audit

We aim to deliver:

• Responsible individuals, authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales to sign off Audit Reports, have all round accounting skills meaning the team can deliver management reports which will help:
  • Evaluation of internal systems and controls
  • Monitor compliance with documented business procedures
  • Identify potential improvements in efficiency
• Reputable 100 year name with excellent standing within the business and taxation community
• An understanding that our audit, unless conducted efficiently and promptly, can hold up the current year management accounts reporting and proper functioning of the accounts department
• A passion for the benefits an audit can bring to a business — it should be more than merely a regulatory requirement
• Assistance in ensuring you are kept up to date with relevant accounting issues and how any changes may impact on your business and financial statements

Professional Service Firms

As a professional service firm ourselves, and with a proven track record of acting on behalf of a significant number of professional service firms, we have developed a wide range of expertise in this sector. We therefore have, at all levels within the firm, a team who understand the key risks to your business and, by keeping up to date with regulatory change, are able to ensure you comply with your professional obligations.

Forensic Accounting

Our forensic accounting services include:

• Court reports
• Joint instructions from claimant and defendant
• Divorce
• Expert evidence in person to Court
• Proceeds of Crime Act reports
• Directorship and shareholder disputes
• Directors Disqualification Act

We aim to deliver:

• Directors who are qualified Chartered Accountants experienced in providing advice to and critically analysing all aspects of owner-managed businesses accounts, systems and accounting records.
• service where a Director with experience performs the majority of the work ensuring detailed knowledge of the case.
• A Director with experience of providing evidence in person to Court where appropriate.
• Directors working as a team dedicated to delivery of reports within agreed timescales.
• Fixed price quotes provided and adhered to.
• An executive summary providing instructing lawyers and barristers with an easy-to-read -and-follow key point summary.

Business Tax

Our business tax services include:

• Annual Tax Returns
• Pre-year end review and discussion on tax planning opportunities
• Structure of remuneration/reward
• Entrepreneurs Relief, share option schemes, EMI schemes, EIS schemes
• Maximisation of Capital Allowances
• In house VAT expertise
• In house payroll help desk for PAYE and National Insurance
• Access to a tax enquiry fee protection service

We aim to deliver:

• Ongoing involvement throughout the year highlighting tax mitigation opportunities
• Expert assistance on capital allowances, particularly on property
• Specialist business tax advisers to deal with HM Revenue & Customs enquiries
• Specialist business tax advisers to obtain necessary clearances from HMRC

Corporate Finance

Our corporate finance services include:

• Access to software which helps to identify potential acquirers and targets
• Pre-exit strategic planning
• Business plans including detailed trading and cash flow forecasts
• Transaction funding
• Restructuring of distressed businesses
• Corporate and personal tax planning
• Vendor due diligence reports
• Acquirer due diligence reports
• Financial institution due diligence reports
• Assistance in reviewing legal documentation

We aim to deliver:

• A team, led by a Director, with expertise in all the areas relevant to the assignment:
  • Commercial
  • Due diligence and business plan
  • Personal taxation
  • Business taxation
• A team with your long term interests at heart
• Fixed fee quotes, not 'moving target' estimates

Insolvency and Restructuring

Our services include:

• Restructuring and refinancing including negotiations with major funders
• Company Voluntary Arrangements
• Partnership Voluntary Arrangements
• Reports to banks and funding institutions
• Administrations
• Liquidations
• IVAs
• Bankruptcies
• Buying business out of insolvency
• Advising creditors on their rights in insolvency procedures

We aim to deliver:

• An initial free of charge no-obligation meeting at which we will assess the financial position, discuss a possible recovery plan, outline the advantages and disadvantages of all options. Whilst time is often short, our team will be on hand to guide you through this difficult period.
• A financial plan which provides the major funders with the key risk areas, key decisions to be made and a route map that may enable the business to continue.
• A team with over 100 years' experience and excellent reputation with banks, fellow accountants, solicitors and the business community in general including:
  • Chartered Accountants with experience of owner managed businesses, accounts preparation and cash flows and secondments to industry; and
  • Two licensed insolvency practitioners.
• Transparent costing rates available on request.
• Access to RPG business advisers and tax experts where appropriate.
• A solution-led approach which only utilises formal insolvency procedures when all other avenues have been exhausted.

International Services

In an ever smaller world, it is important for our clients that we are able to access professional advice all over the world.

We are members of DFK International, a major worldwide association of independent accountancy firms and business advisers.

For more information please visit the DFK International website.