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

The team that completed the Management Buyout

UNW advises on perfect MBO

UNW has recently advised Perfect Image, a long-established and trusted end-to-end IT solutions provider, on a Management Buyout (MBO) that completed in May 2019. Chiltern Capital, a London-based private equity firm, provided financial support.

UNW advises Samuel Knight International through major investment

Samuel Knight International, a global recruitment and project man-power specialist headquartered in Newcastle, was founded by Steve Rawlingson in 2014 with the ambition of shaking up the recruitment industry. Initially tackling an acute skills shortage in the energy and rail sector, it has demonstrated an impressive level of growth since its inception.

UNW advises Receptive Software on its sale to US business software firm Pendo

Newcastle-based chartered accountancy and business advisory firm UNW has advised Receptive Software Limited on its sale to business software firm, Pendo, which is headquartered in the United States.

HMRC offers further guidance for ‘Reverse Charge’ Accounting

Following on from our previous article, HMRC have announced an updated guidance for those who are going to be affected by the significant amendment to the VAT rules for construction services known as ‘domestic reverse charge’ accounting.

OUR SUCCESS

“UNW are proactive in working alongside the S and B team to not only prepare and submit our R&D claims, but also increase our understanding of the areas of our business and resulting expenditure which are qualifying projects. The resulting cash repayments not only assist cashflow but increase our focus on being innovative and keeping ahead of our competition.”

Darren Smith

Managing Director

“The four years running up to the tribunal were extremely stressful for Tyne Valley, and it is a real shame that honest and hard-working businesses such as ours can be subject to such a long, drawn-out process. The costs would have severely limited our growth aspirations. Thankfully, common sense prevailed in the end, and I can’t thank the VAT team at UNW enough for their meticulous and dedicated approach to the tribunal. They were extremely supportive throughout the process, and I would recommend them to anyone else that found themselves in a similar position to ours.”

Jonathan Bell

Partner

“UNW was appointed as our auditor in 2016 and we’ve just signed off on our second set of accounts working with them, and the team has expressed their pleasure at the fact that the audit fieldwork has been far more detailed and thorough since Anne and her team have been working with us. I like the fact we can’t be complacent and it has fed through to strong internal procedures. We have also done a great deal on changing the presentation of the group accounts and revising a number of accounting policies relating to our assets, particularly the centre and collection. It’s been a lengthy process but I feel we’ve worked well with UNW and it’s great to get high quality advice throughout.”

Jon Riley

Chief Operating Officer

I have been a client of the UNW Dental Business Unit for around 10 years and have also found that they have treated me with the utmost respect throughout our journey. They have a real in-depth knowledge of personal tax, as well as business tax and accounting affairs. They have guided my practice both smoothly and efficiently and I believe their reputation throughout the country is second to none, with Alan Suggett’s close association working alongside NHS Pensions and The British Dental Association.

Graeme Tattersfield

Practice Principal