Haines Watts Chartered Accountants Reading are business advisors serving clients who are primarily located in and around the Reading area. Our focus is on supporting the local business community with a full service offering including audit and accounting, tax, VAT planning, corporate finance, company secretarial, payroll and pensions advice. With over 80 year’s experience, we provide local expertise and knowledge, backed by the resources of a national firm, with over 50 offices and 800 staff around the UK and an International network.
We pride ourselves on taking a proactive and fresh thinking approach and as business owners ourselves we not only understand the numbers, but also the other challenges you face in running your business. Our primary goal is to make a significant impact on the profitability of your business whist providing excellent value for money.
We changed auditors from a Big Four firm to HW several years ago and since then the quality of service has been excellent. In particular their pro-activeness, year end planning and the fact that we deal with one partner for all aspects of our business who ensures the expert resources within his firm are utilised at the right time and just as importantly at the right price, which is a far cry from our previous Big Four advisers.
Our service to you is partner led, meaning you deal with just one of our partners who oversee all aspects of your affairs. They have access to the wider team’s extensive knowledge, so whatever issue you face Haines Watts Chartered Accountants Reading can help.
Why should businesses in Reading use us?
Quality: We are a top 20 accountancy firm providing all the benefits of a large firm, but
to SME businesses and multinationals. You get peace of mind knowing you are receiving top quality service from experienced business advisers.
Services: Haines Watts Reading provide all the standard accounting, audit, tax advice, payroll, and VAT services you'd expect. However, we also offer much more providing tailored business services such as business structuring, funding, specialist tax planning, advice on buying or selling a business, retirement planning, and pension planning.
Your Profitability: As a leading firm of accountants in Reading, our goal is to make a significant impact on the profitability of your business. We measure our success based on your success and your satisfaction with our service delivery.
Partner Expertise: Our service to you is single partner-led. All our partners are owners of their own business, meaning you get a high level of knowledge and personal involvement, helping you to achieve financial success.
Straightforward: Haines Watts Reading are open and approachable. We keep things
straightforward and highly visible so that there are no hidden surprises.
Our clients
We have a wide range of local clients whom we have been successfully advising for over 80
years. Take a look at what our clients say about us here.
Our people
Our people are the key to our quality of service: You'll have regular access and communication with our partners, tax advisers and other specialists from the day you appoint us. Why not meet the team?
How can we help?
Whatever your needs, Haines Watts Reading would welcome discussing them with you. It begins with an informal chat with a Reading partner, so that you can decide whether we are the right choice for your business.
Haines Watts Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013
Haines Watts' Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition 2013 in the Thames Valley has launched! Put simply, the competition is free to enter, is open to anyone who is 35 or under who runs any type of business in the Thames Valley region.
If this doesn’t apply to you, do you know someone – a friend, family member or contact – who would benefit from the opportunity?
For further details and to enter the 2013 competition, please visit: www.hwye.co.uk
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