A WIDE RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE You may need people with a range of skills or a particular specialisation; we can almost certainly deliver. Our experienced and qualified individuals who are available for secondment or project support are drawn from across our teams, so they may have extensive knowledge of sectors such as: Business Services Construction & Property Consumer Markets Energy Family Businesses Industrial Public Sector & Not for Profit Technology Their skillsets will reflect our core services: Audit & Assurance Business Advisory Corporate Finance Payroll & Employment Tax Taxes Wealth Management
A GOOD FIT FOR YOUR BUSINESS All our people are quick to assimilate and adapt to evolving situations; that’s one of the qualities that’s brought them to AAB. When they transfer to you, they’ll soon expand their knowledge of your company, your challenges and objectives and your people’s roles and responsibilities. Naturally you’ll have your own way of working – just as we do. Our people are adaptable and will quickly adopt your methods, whilst sharing some of the best practices they’ve developed with us. So as well as fulfilling a need, you also benefit from a fresh point of view and some ideas which you might like enough to adopt as your own.
AFFORDABLE & ETHICAL Being ‘lean’ and only hiring full-time employees for essential roles allows you to be financially efficient, but leaves you with little ‘wiggle room’. By arranging a secondment or project support with us, you gain in flexibility without making a major commitment. As you may be aware, from 15 March 2020 the FRC’s Ethical Standard prohibited loan staff arrangements from your statutory auditor, even on a short-term basis. If you wish to retain your relationship with your existing external auditor, you must look elsewhere. Assuming we don’t provide that service to you, we can quickly deploy suitably experienced staff to suit your requirements.
THERE’S NO SUBSTITUTE FOR EXPERIENCE Some businesses arrange secondments with students who are part way through their training or individuals who are only recently qualified, as this can often be an inexpensive solution. We’re all for students or recently qualified accountants having the opportunity to learn more in a different environment – it can be a very good move for their careers. However, it’s true that there’s no substitute for experience, so if you are looking to secondment because you are seriously under pressure, that may be asking more of students or newly-qualified accountants than they can reasonably provide. All the AAB people available for secondments or project placements are knowledgeable, experienced and very capable. As well as supporting you, they are ambassadors for AAB which means they are already highly regarded.
AAB have invested time in knowing us and as a result have been able to support us in improving our processes and systems. The team are always incredibly proactive in responding, price the offering fairly and deliver work that exceeds expectations.Julia Rank, St Mungo’s Community Housing Association
The work AAB provided on our auto enrolment was excellent. Timely and pragmatic work delivered to high professional standards, whilst remaining personable and efficient throughout. Well done!Richard Smeaton, PD&MS Group
I cannot recommend AAB highly enough from my extensive experiences of their services which has included dissolving a partnership, becoming a sole trader and then subsequently incorporating the business, tax and general accountancy service and advice.Stephen Bonsor, The Dental Practice
Having AAB as our business partners gives me peace of mind as they listen, participate and work with us to ensure our goals are achieved.Gillian Irvine, NorDan