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Your business is our business
Your business is where your professional and personal lives meet. We meet you there. Our advice and services consider the complete picture, with support informed by a detailed understanding of you, as well as your business: Our professional services tailored to your personal circumstances.
We help clients grow their businesses to develop their legacy; manage its risks to protect their personal wealth; and plan their exit or succession to secure a future for themselves and their family.
At every turn of life and every stage of business, our experts help owners drive towards their commercial and personal goals.
Individual advice, industry informed
With S&W, business owners benefit from the scale and expertise of a top 10 UK accountancy firm and our complete commitment to each client’s success. We’re a big business, but we offer a unique, personal service with a lead expert as well as experienced partners and specialists on hand to provide guidance and insights.
With offices across the UK and 230 worldwide with CLA Global, we bring experience working with leading businesses across industries and countries. From real estate and renewables, finance, fintech and technology to non-profits and partnerships, our sector specialists share best practices, fresh thinking and the latest developments to impact your industry.
At home or abroad, our services help you navigate complexity, seize opportunities and build the future you want for yourself and your business.
Funding, finance and growth
We help owners build bigger businesses and sustainable scale. Our experts provide comprehensive support for growing businesses, from advice and strategies to boost sales and increase market share to growth funding and international expansion.
Our professionals partner with you to bring together industry experience, in-depth expertise and a deep understanding of your business and ambitions. Together, we can accelerate your growth and reach your goals quicker.
Outsourcing and efficiency
S&W outsourcing services enable business owners and their teams to focus on what they do best. Accounting, finance, payroll, compliance and company secretarial services deliver efficiencies, scale and expertise to free the business to pursue further growth.
We also bring efficiencies in-house. Our transformation and technology services help businesses identify and enhance their value drivers, manage change successfully and bring efficiencies across their processes and operations.
Compliance, risk and regulation
We cut through the complexity of tax, regulation and risk to help businesses comply confidently, improve efficiency and build resilience. Our support enables owners to cut costs and protect their investment and business value.
Whether it’s VAT, business rates, corporation or employment taxes, our tax team helps businesses make the most of reliefs, reduce the cost of compliance and minimise risks and liabilities. With assurance, risk advisory and cyber services, meanwhile, we help businesses build and strengthen organisational risk, controls and governance.
Sales and succession
We help owners with exits that achieve their financial objectives, realise their ambitions for their business and establish their legacy. Whether it’s an external sale, management buyout or internal succession, we help owners plan, prepare and implement exits that minimise risks and maximise values;
- Pre-sale planning to review exit options, develop strategies and get your business exit-ready to maximise the business value
- Sales support and execution to find the right buyer, take you through due diligence and avoid price deductions and delays
- Post sales support with tax and estate planning to protect your gains and secure your family’s future
