Achieve your goals with MGI Midgley Snelling LLP
Starting your own business can be very rewarding, both personally and financially. But it can also be a massive challenge and involve a lot of hard work, so it is best to seek expert advice as soon as possible.
At MGI Midgley Snelling LLP, we offer a range of services to help you achieve your business goals, including:
- Helping you decide on the most suitable structure for your business, whether that is a sole trader, partnership, limited liability partnership or limited company
- Considering your business’s financial requirements, the best sources of finance and assisting with preparing business plans, cash flow projects, budgets and trading forecasts
- Ensuring a good working relationship with your bank or other financiers
- Dealing with registration procedures at Companies House and with HM Revenue & Customs
- Acting as your company secretary and dealing with company secretarial issues
- Setting up your internal recording systems to comply with statutory requirements
- Providing detailed management information and financial reporting information
- Advising on the set up of an EIS and the completion of statutory documentation
If you would like to know more about our start-up services, please contact us.
Meet our experts
Partner
Sarah Squires
Sarah works with a wide range of clients and has a wealth of experience of small and medium-sized businesses here in the UK, but also includes auditing international groups of companies. Sarah’s focus is to assist her clients in defining and achieving their goals. By her close involvement she is able to identify and tackle the challenges facing these businesses as well as dealing with their statutory duties with regards to accounting, auditing and tax.
Where Sarah works closely with her clients she is in an ideal position to provide advice on matters that are important to them including planning for the future, how to do their management accounting, tax planning and providing VAT support and assistance.
In addition to Sarah being a Chartered Accountant and Registered Auditor, Sarah is experienced in the regulated areas of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Accounts Rules and Charities, which are specialist areas for the firm and require her detailed knowledge in these areas.
Sarah’s involvement with her clients and her relationships with other professional contacts has given her the opportunity to work on various due diligence assignments involving small and medium-sized companies, providing reports and advice based on her findings.
Outside of work Sarah likes to keep fit, although socialising with friends and family does take priority.
Partner
Tracey Wickens
Tracey advises on our UK corporate clients, from start up entrepreneurial companies, OMBs, UK subsidiaries of international groups and parents of large international groups.
Being both a qualified Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser, Tracey is ideally placed to provide guidance for UK companies as they start and grow through to maturity. As a result of over 25 years’ experience in working with UK companies, Tracey has become the firm’s technical resource for Audit & Assurance matters, with knowledge spanning across many different industries and business activities.
Tracey works with her clients by developing growth strategies and tax planning for effective management of costs and profitability. This is facilitated by attending management meetings with clients, as required, to help develop their strategies and providing advice by phone and email.
Tracey has responsibility for the firm’s forensic work, which includes both business valuations and due diligence work. This includes work on business acquisitions, valuation for matrimonial matters and where there has been fraud suspected within a company.
Outside of work, Tracey is a qualified rugby referee. She also manages and coaches youth netball and plays herself. In addition, she has been known to do a bit of running too.
