Audit & Assurance

Audit & Assurance

In an ever-changing financial landscape, organisations face more challenges than ever before. UNW’s partner-led audit and assurance service provides consistently high quality and trusted support that enables our clients to improve performance and achieve their goals.

Our client portfolio is varied and ever-expanding, including entrepreneurial and private equity backed companies as well as national and international groups. We also provide cost effective, tailored services to charitable organisations, not-for-profit entities, academies and housing associations.

UNW’s audit and assurance team includes home-grown talented graduates right through to managers and partners with vast ‘big 4’ and industry experience. Offering statutory, non-statutory, internal and grant audit services, as well as tailored and informative financial reports, our proactive approach ensures that potential issues and risks are identified quickly enabling them to be dealt with decisively. We take a collaborative approach with our client base to ensure that deadlines and expectations are met.

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LATEST NEWS

Welcome news for the construction industry as HMRC delays the implementation of ‘reverse charge’ VAT accounting for 12 months

HMRC has announced that the introduction of significant amendments to the VAT rules for construction services, known as ‘domestic reverse charge’ accounting, have been delayed for 12 months until 1 October 2020.

The Alnwick Garden spreads its roots with help from UNW

Newcastle-based chartered accountancy and financial advisory firm UNW has provided support to The Alnwick Garden across a wide range of services. Most recently, this has been during the development of their Lilidorei Play Village, a project which will see the organisation launch the world’s biggest wooden play structure. We spoke with Mark Brassell, Director of The Alnwick Garden, about their Lilidorei project, as well as the organisation’s involvement with UNW.

SJOG appoints brand new executive team with help from UNW

SJOG Hospitaller Services has enjoyed growth over the past nine months following the appointment of an entirely new executive team,

Advisory fuel rates for September 2019 announced by HMRC

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published the latest advisory fuel rates, to apply from 1 September 2019. The new

OUR SUCCESS

We engaged the Strategic Talent team at UNW to identify an experienced Non-Executive Director who could help us implement a formal board structure and discipline as well as provide independent, objective oversight and support the development of our senior team. Having taken the time to truly understand our business and the dynamics of the key stakeholders, the team swiftly gave us a high-quality shortlist of candidates from which we were able to make a successful appointment to our board.

Beth Crosier

Finance Director - Bede Gaming Limited

I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for the help of the dental team at UNW. From tirelessly running the numbers on numerous practices to helping us find the right one to buy, in addition to constant advice on maintaining and growing the practice, the support i’ve received has been absolutely first-rate.

Seb Pearey

Practice Owner

I got the opportunity to buy Glebe Street Practice in 2014, and knew I wanted Alan Suggett and the team at UNW on board during the process. They undertook a forecast of the practice, ensuring the acquisition of this practice was feasible for me. After the purchase, I wanted the UNW dental team to become the practice accountant, and have found them to be extremely professional, knowledgeable and, most of all, very approachable.

Sameet Hinchonda

Principal Dentist

After our German parent company allowed us to engage auditors outside of the big 4, we moved to UNW after a short tender process. UNW took the time at partner level to understand our business and the transition was simple with no disruption, despite the short timescale. The audit team conducted the first-year-end in a professional manner and we were able to sign the annual financial statements several months faster than in previous years. The advice received from audit and tax has been excellent and timely. In addition, the fees are at a much more appropriate level than with the previous firm.

David Atkinson

Secretary