Finance Expertise with Proven Results
A flexible approach to delivering accounting, taxation and financial expertise
Why Highfield Advisory?
At Highfield Advisory we offer accounting, taxation and financial expertise to support your business and to provide the information you need to manage growth and profitability in the short, medium and long term.
Experienced Professionals
Professionally qualified team, with over 40 years combined experience across a wide range of clients and business sectors
Personal Service
We take time to get to know you, in order to understand your business and the challenges that you face
Flexible Solutions
Our bespoke approach means we can tailor a solution to meet your unique requirements and within your budget
Market Leading Technology
We use a range of technological solutions to simplify your accounting processes for maximum cost efficiency
About Highfield Advisory
Highfield Advisory is a specialist consultancy business, providing accounting and taxation services combined with strategic advice to support start ups and small businesses.
We offer cost effective, high value, bespoke solutions to meet all of your business and financial needs.
In addition to traditional accounting and taxation services, we can also provide advice on how to improve and develop your business. Whether you need an integrated business strategy, access to corporate finance or specialist tax advice, we are here to help you achieve your goals.
Our objective is to provide first class support in the following areas:
- Business planning and strategy development
- Interim / Part-time Finance Director services
- Company Secretarial Services
- Preparation of Statutory Accounts
- Taxation Advice, including R&D Tax Credits
- Cash-flow management
- Payroll and Employee Incentive schemes
- Finance raising/commercial review of finance proposals
- Alternative finance, e.g. grant applications and incubator programmes
- Acquisition advice
- Exit planning
Our Expertise
Our services are tailored to the needs of your business, so we take time upfront to understand your business, your objectives and your key priorities. We can then provide you with an outline of what we can do to support your business and help you achieve your goals, providing a cost effective, high value solution to meet your business and financial needs.
Business Planning
Every business should plan ahead to ensure success but daily business pressures often conspire to delay the strategic planning process. Financial forecasts, including cashflow forecasts, are a crucial part of any business plan and we will work with you to ensure these are both meaningful and robust.
Corporate Finance
Drawing on our wealth of experience, we can support clients in dealing with financial institutions to raise the funds required for your business to grow.
We can also advise on potential acquisitions, and on exit planning to ensure your business is prepared for sale when you are ready to move onto the next challenge.
Finance Director Services
Not all businesses require a full time Finance Director for their day to day operations. Highfield Advisory are able to provide the commercial input you require to meet your objectives on a short term or ad-hoc basis, providing you with strategic advice you require when you need it.
Clients
With our wealth of experience across different types of business, in a wide variety of sectors, we provide invaluable advice and accounting services to small businesses, start-ups and the self-employed.
Highfield Advisory can help your business with a wide variety of accountancy and business expertise, all available from a team that knows and understands your business.
Start Ups
Most people starting up in business do so because they have a good business proposition and the enterprise and commitment to see it through. However, they may not be experts in the legal and financial aspects of setting up and running a business, and such matters often appear daunting. Fortunately you do not need to be an expert in these fields to make your business a success but you do need the support of people who are.
We can help you put everything in place to launch your new business, including:
- decide on the most suitable structure for your business
- prepare business plans, budgets, cashflow & trading forecasts;
- assess finance requirements, advise on best sources of finance and draw up necessary proposals;
- help establish a good working relationship with your bank;
- complete registrations with Companies House & HMRC;
- deal with company secretarial issues;
- set up a record system to comply with statutory requirements;
- help with the choice and installation of accountancy software;
- bookkeeping, VAT, payroll and other accounting requirements
- help with all aspects of business compliance & administration.
Small Business
For the established small business, we can provide:
- General accountancy
- Taxation advice
- Payroll services
- Bookkeeping
- Management information
- Business planning and forecasts
- VAT Returns
- Company Secretarial services
Testimonials
Martin Bacon, MD, Parachute IT (now Chess ICT
“I worked with Highfield Advisory for nearly 3 years with their assistance and guidance at Parachute IT. They brought immense value to the business with their wide range of knowledge of business as well as finance.With a broad spectrum of expertise they enabled us to successfully grow with input on the day to day elements as well as strategically assist with our budgets and business plan for our long term goals.
Their skills with managing the acquisition process of the business in 2014 were invaluable toward ensuring the necessary due diligence and information provision to the potential vendors. The finalisation of the acquisition and subsequent work required after this were managed seamlessly and he made everything run like clockwork.”
Crispin Beale, Group Chief Executive, Chime Insight & Engagement Group
“On taking responsibility for the Opinion Leader I asked Highfield Advisory to come in and review their operations to understand why such a long established and successful brand was forecast to make a loss of over half a million pounds.
Highfield undertook a comprehensive review across the business, liaising closely with the senior management team, and identified a range of factors that needed to be addressed. Pam worked closely with the senior team to ensure that they understood the issues which impacted their profitability and made numerous improvement suggestions; these added tangible value to the business. Pam also produced a new pricing model for the team to ensure that all costs were factored into their proposals upfront. This model was user friendly and transformed how the team approached their project costings.
I would thoroughly recommend Highfield Advisory for their breadth of experience, pragmatic approach and their focus in identifying and resolving key business issues. I found Highfield to be both highly effective and also an absolute pleasure to work with as a highly competent business partner who got the job done whilst also managing the organisational politics/sensitivities.”
David Cederholm, MD, Dipstix.co.uk
“I worked with Highfield for 2.5 years on the online based startup, Dipstix, they guided the business through 3 successful funding rounds involving both early stage angel investors as well as institutional investors, in which their experience and knowledge in structuring the investment meant we were successful at each round, even attracting additional investment over and above what we set out to raise. They was also able to help us build efficiencies in our operations in regards to invoicing of clients, credit control and our accounting.
In particular, Chris was a valued colleague, calming influence and mentor through what was a big challenge professionally and would strongly recommend him to any organisation as he would be sure to add huge value.."
Irshad KhanMD - Minicabster & Founder, Coachscanner
I worked with Highfield Advisory for over four years, initially at Minicabster and then at CoachScanner. They have provided invaluable advice and support throughout this time, whether on setting up or improving our accounting processes, raising funds, producing forecasts and business plans, realising operational efficiencies, prodiving tax advice and general commercial input. They have been a sounding board throughout the various stages of business growth, providing common sense guidance and pragmatic solutions to a selection of business challenges. The range of skills that they offer, combined with the quality of service, have made them a trusted and valued business adviser.
PROUD TO BE XERO CERTIFIED
Xero provides all the accountancy tools you’ll need for your business - and also allows you to share access with your team and your accountants, giving up-to-date management information to all the people who can help your business grow.
Our in-depth experience with Xero means we can quickly and effectively set up your Xero account, including bringing over information from other accounting software and creating the best structure for your accounts.
Once you are up and running, we can give you advice on how to use Xero and make the most of the wide range of benefits that using Xero brings such as:
- Connection to your bank accounts
- Simple reconciliation of invoices, bills and expenses
- Payroll management
- Expenses management
- Budgeting and reporting
- Access from anywhere online
