Who we work with
Businesses, boards and finance teams
When the board needs a clear answer
A difficult policy, accounting or reporting question can have consequences well beyond the accounts.
It may affect reported financial strength, financing arrangements, or a decision that the board needs to take.
We can provide an independent view on an accounting treatment, challenge a significant judgement, review corporate reporting, assess the implications of regulatory change or brief the board on an unfamiliar issue.
Our focus is on giving decision-makers a clear answer, robust evidence and an understanding of the practical consequences.
Discuss an accounting or reporting issue
Trade associations and professional bodies
When policy change demands a clear position
A policy proposal may affect members differently. It may combine technical, commercial and political questions. It may not be the only way government or a regulator could achieve its objective.
We help clients establish what the change could mean, identify the issues that matter most, gather and test evidence and develop a position that is both credible and useful.
The work might support an internal decision, a consultation response or preparation for future regulatory change. We help you understand your stakeholder interests, so you can negotiate change with confidence.
The association retains ownership of its policy and relationships. Our focus is on strengthening the analysis and providing additional capacity where it is needed.
Accountancy firms and other advisers
When your client needs specialist depth
No firm needs every specialism permanently in-house.
We work alongside accountancy firms, lawyers, corporate finance advisers and public affairs teams where a particular matter requires additional accounting, reporting or regulatory expertise.
We help with reviewing an accounting treatment, researching an unusual technical issue, supporting a transaction, analysing regulatory consequences or providing specialist input into a dispute or wider client issues.
The existing adviser keeps the client relationship. We focus on rapidly resolving the specialist issue.
Businesses innovating in professional and regulated markets
When the market is ready for the idea, but the system isn’t
A good proposition does not always translate easily into adoption.
We’ve seen that in professional and regulated markets it is often governance, standards, or regulatory acceptability that slows or derails new product adoption.
We help clients understand what could prevent adoption, what evidence or safeguards decision-makers will need and how a proposition might move from opportunity to implementation.
The business frames the commercial opportunity. We focus on professional, regulatory or institutional acceptance.