Academies

Helping maximise your impact: Whatever your financial, governance or management needs, we can help.

We provide a complete range of specialist services from locations throughout the country – from advisory services or audit to tax and VAT – which help academies:
  • maximise their impact on pupils and the local community
  • comply with legal obligations.
  • with current sector issues
  • worried about developing your estates under the Building Schools for the Future programme
  • need to establish financial and internal controls in your start-up period
  • concerned that VAT is minimised on your development projects or worried about having to register due to ancillary income
  • keen to adopt governance best practice
  • anxious about raising funds tax efficiently
  • need assistance with Teachers Pensions and pension schemes for non-teachers including Local Government schemes
  • unsure of their tax status

We understand the issues and can help.
Substantial experience to make a real difference: With 20 academy clients and 120 independent school clients, we appreciate your challenges in managing and governing your school.

We are the number one auditor in the charity and education sector, acting for more charity clients than any other firm. Members of our team have also been bursars and governors.

Wider Not for Profit sector work: Our team acts for:

Our obligation to comply with Ethical Standards issued by the Auditing Practices Board means that we may not be able to provide some of the advertised services to audit clients of the firm. Your usual client services partner will be able to advise.

Recent publications

Charities and education newsletter - Winter 2008/09

Articles include: 2008 Governance Survey highlights; Public benefit reporting – where are we now?; and do you have effective trustee meetings?

Train to Gain - are colleges taxable?

We look the following questions: Colleges do not pay tax - do they? What are the tax issues involved? Is there a practical solution? Some traps for the unwary?

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