What makes Cresswells different?
We want to help you to succeed. We want to make a real difference to your business.
Our experience enables us to offer you strategic business advice as well as accounting and auditing services. And by using systems integration, networks and now cloud computing to maximise efficiency, we can support clients literally anywhere in the world.
We refuse to let the grass to grow under our own feet, and we assume you feel the same way. Our strategy has always been to get better, not necessarily bigger. We keep ourselves at the optimum size for affordability and close client relationships, while delivering the services and capability of a much larger firm.
Graham Roper BA FCA
Graham qualified as a chartered accountant in 1985. Soon after that he joined BDO Binder Hamlyn, where he audited listed companies and set up a regional Business Service Department. Wanting more independence, he joined Cresswells in 1996 and became a partner two years later. He leads our audit and accountancy services and specialises in business advice to owner managed businesses.
When ‘off-duty’, Graham is an avid classic scooter enthusiast, taking to the wide open roads – once he’s finished bashing his knuckles with the spanners.
Paul Vine MA(Oxon) FCA CTA
Paul became a chartered accountant after graduating in mathematics in 1984. He spent six years in the tax department of Ernst & Young, where he added chartered tax adviser to his qualifications. He then joined the National & Provincial Building Society, specialising in tax compliance and planning. He joined Cresswells and became a partner in 1998 and now heads up our tax department.
In short, a good accountant should be a key asset to your business. A trusted member of your team. Does all that sound unfamiliar? If so, you need to talk to us. Probably right now.
John Dakin BSc FCA
Chartered accountant since 1991. Joined Cresswells from Horwath Clark Whitehill in 2005. Specialises in start-ups and growing businesses and also has wide experience of the charitable and not-for-profit sectors.
‘There’s a new entrepreneurialism in the SME sector, and we’re more in tune with that than many traditional accountants. There are lots of buzzing small businesses out there who don’t want just to be told how much tax to pay. They want help to develop the business and make it more profitable, and that’s why they come to us.’