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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OUR SUCCESS

“The first tranche of funding has allowed us to create new jobs, doubling our workforce and also expand the sales team to drive coverage nationally in the food service sector, developing long-term relationships and supply into the NHS, universities and contract caterers. Investment into marketing has seen an increase of 1300% in sales over the last month from an already growing base. UNW assisted in the development of the proposal, advising and testing the projections so that KPI’s would be met and ensuring that subsequent tranches are made available as growth develops further.”

Jay Croslegh

Chief Executive Officer

“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

Sunderland City Council regard Neville and his team at UNW as the leading adviser on funding and grants for inward investors, and we would always turn to them for support on any significant and strategically important inbound project.

Sunderland City Council

“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