Your auditor should have a genuine interest in what your business does now and what your plans are for the future, and they should invest their time and knowledge toward helping you achieve those goals.
Shorts give their customers an excellent personal service. They are always at the end of the phone and willing to help whenever the need arises. Nick Grayson - Director, Pinelog Group Limited
Shorts give their customers an excellent personal service. They are always at the end of the phone and willing to help whenever the need arises.
An audit is a review and examination of your company’s financial information, records, and operations, which provides an independent assessment of their accuracy and reliability.
The main purpose of an audit is to give confidence to your company’s stakeholders, such as shareholders, investors, lenders, and the public. The financial statements and information presented by your company must be trustworthy and reflect its true financial position.
An independent audit from Shorts helps you ensure transparency, accountability, and integrity in your financial reporting.
The relationship between your business and its auditors should be a long-term partnership built on trust, support, and collaboration.
Your auditor should have a genuine interest in what your business does now and what your plans are for the future; and they should invest their time and knowledge toward helping you achieve those goals. And the reason we know this? – because we’ve been doing it for decades.
The Shorts Audit Promise is built around seven key principles, which summarise how we believe an audit should be and, indeed, how every one of our audit engagements is managed.
Audits are a legal requirement for organisations that meet the qualifying criteria, but it is more than just a legal obligation. It is also an opportunity to drive real improvements in finance and operations.
The Shorts team can also help audit the UK subsidiaries of international companies.
An audit is not just a box-checking exercise, but a real strategic business opportunity for companies that choose to use it to its full potential.
Thanks to the joined-up ethos of the wider Shorts team, your audit can reveal greater opportunities in areas such as tax planning and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, management accounts, R&D tax reliefs, and even the personal taxes of the company owners.
"If you're looking for speed of response and advisers willing to get to know your business so that answers are tailored to you, then make the change. Because otherwise you're just a little fish in a big pond with everybody else."
Longcliffe discuss their experience transitioning from large international advisers to a regional firm, emphasising the high costs and lack of personal attention from the larger firm. They wanted a more local, value-for-money adviser that aligned with their company’s ethos.
"Shorts have been with us since 1969 when the business was founded by my stepfather. Throughout this period, they have been a valued member of our wider management team, offering well thought through strategic advice."
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