Audit and Assurance Services

Lovewell Blake is a member of HLB International. HLB International is a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms, comprising member firms in 158 countries. HLB International member firms offer audit, accounting, tax and business advisory services. HLB International is a leading mid-tier accounting network. Through our HLB sister firms, we have access to vast expertise all over the world and regularly work with these firms to provide a joined up, international strategy to many of our clients.

An audit is the external examination of a organisation's financial statements by someone independent, normally a Chartered or Certified Accountant and Registered Auditor.

By law, a company requires an audit when it has two of the following:

- Turnover in excess of £10.2m

- Gross assets in excess of £5.1m

- More than 50 employees

There may be other scenarios when a company requires an audit and transitional years are treated slightly differently.

Many organisations will opt for an audit even if they do not require one by law as a statutory audit provides a much higher level of scrutiny. If you would like to discuss your needs and our approach to audits please get in touch.

Our corporate tax team have vast experience is advising our clients through a plethora of tax challenges including:

- Company and group reorganisations including acquisitions and tax groups

- Property transfers, disposals and acquisitions

- R&D claims under both the SME scheme and the Expenditure Credit scheme

- International aspects such as expanding overseas or coming to the UK

Our corporate tax team is headed up by specialist tax partners with all the advisory work entirely independent of any audit work we also undertake.