What does the process of defining client/service offering look like?

Well, the starting point is to understand what your current client base is – and this is usually easier said than done…

Practices are finding it increasingly challenging to recruit, manage, develop and retain their employees. We discuss the key issues in getting the right people and managing HR…

One Paper Lane, a U.S.-based digital automation and collaboration platform, launches in the UK in collaboration with M&A and strategy consultants Foulger Underwood.

The Foulger Underwood team has advised Percy Gore & Co on its merger with MHA MacIntyre Hudson.

We’re extremely excited to not only be attending Accountex London, but to partner with One Paper Lane on their UK launch.

The partnership brings together the best in our practice consultancy and transformation expertise, with One Paper Lane’s process automation and streamlining technology.

Stephen Tucker joins Foulger Underwood as a senior consultant, bringing considerable experience in running and managing specialist financial services businesses, as well as time served in accountancy practices.

Foulger Underwood is delighted to have produced our first article, in a series, for the ACCA.

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Understanding the direction of travel of the institutes’ students and members could impact your recruitment strategy. Kevin Reed looks at the latest, rarely-publicised, statistics…

Foulger Underwood, acting as sell-side advisers, represented JP Integra, a Cayman-based fund administrator, on their recent sale to ZEDRA…

Equality of gender and ethnicity are hot topics, but there are many other ways in which people can be discriminated against in the workplace. What about equality of contribution, or achievement, from a remuneration and career perspective? Derek Smith discusses the criteria to take into account, and how to approach them.

As accounting tech continues to develop at apace, Foulger Underwood’s Kevin Reed considers how outsourcing and automation play an important part in the practice merger market.

There is much going on in the accountancy marketplace as far as consolidation is concerned. And we’re determined to help practices make the right decision for them, their staff and clients.

We’ve pulled together key questions for you to consider when thinking about consolidation as an option for your practice.

As the UK’s most trusted adviser to professional services firms, Foulger Underwood is delighted to launch a new service to help improve workflow and productivity.

Our new platform, developed in conjunction with One Paper Lane…

Understanding the intention of the investor will set a framework from which you can gauge the direction of travel of the consolidator, writes Kevin Reed…

Foulger Underwood is delighted to announce that our client, SH Landes LLP, has sold it’s corporate service business to the Hawksford Group; a corporate, private client and fund services provider. We wish them much success in the future.

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While managing the move towards MTD is a rigmarole for practices and clients, it is kickstarting the revolution that is finance information ‘on the go’. Clients will soon realise that filing services are low value, and the accountant will have to step up and become a true adviser - aided by all this up-to-date information at hand, writes Keith Underwood.

The appointment of a non-executive on a practice’s board shouldn’t be thought as of the preserve of the Big Four firms. Small practices can benefit from experience and views of an external appointee, writes Derek Smith…

Personality clashes, bad behaviour, money wranglings and differing ambitions can all derail a practice from achieving its goals. They are almost always difficult and painful to resolve. Derek Smith looks at the problems that occur, and how to avoid them, in this fascinating article…

Foulger Underwood’s Singapore managing director Tim Underwood reveals the current structure of the trust and corporate services market in Asia, and its direction of travel…

Despite the many tech options available to help practices transform, it’s frustrating that accountants aren’t putting in the planning time to consider what’s best for them. Our MD Keith Underwood discusses this further, having seen two exhausted accountants leaving the latest Accountex show…