And how can we help you?
When you choose your accountants, what are you looking for? Someone who takes time to understand your business? Someone you can rely on to provide solutions, fast? Someone well-qualified with plenty of experience?
Philip Barnes and Co. are accountants in Tamworth, Staffordshire, who provide you with all this and more. Weve been supporting and advising successful local businesses for over 50 years. Our longevity is by design, not accident, and is built upon an unwavering commitment to understanding our clients needs and delivering practical, timely and often inspired business and accounting solutions.
We are a close knit team of qualified
bringing together many specialist skills and a broad spectrum of experience. For you, this means you have your own Philip Barnes accountant who gets to know your business inside out, and can call in specialist expertise from their colleagues whenever you need it.
If you need a reliable accountant and trusted business advisor,
We have paid a great deal of attention to developing the specialist support which many businesses require due to the nature of their operations. This often involves us acting in the wider role of business advisers.
Starting his career with a top twenty accountancy firm, Chris cut his accounting teeth in auditing, acquisitions and corporate finance. He joined Philip Barnes & Co. in 1987 and became a partner in 1990 at the tender age of 31. The move to a successful local firm has enabled Chris to work more closely with clients and to provide an all-round service to them.
Chris specialises in tax planning and auditing, and his sound commercial knowledge means he is able to discuss all aspects of his clients businesses with them. At Philip Barnes & Co. he has transformed the business systems and he is the go-to man for compliance, systems, IT and staff.
A partner and director, Faith started work at Philip Barnes & Co. as an 18 year old trainee accountant. She has lived in Tamworth for almost all her life and she has worked with local businesses and organisations of all sizes and in pretty much every sector. Her specialities include audits, tax planning and conflict resolution.
Faith acts as an invisible board member to most of her clients, having worked alongside owners and directors throughout the life of their business. Her in-depth understanding of her clients businesses means that she is a trusted advisor whether they are making big strategic decisions or dealing with day to day problems.
and thats what she helps her clients to do.
John specialises in tax planning, particularly for high wealth individuals and businesses. He is commercially astute and is used as a regular sounding board by his clients. He thrives on finding legitimate solutions to minimise tax and he has saved his clients £millions during his career at Philip Barnes & Co.
John is focussed, decisive and ambitious for his clients. He is driven by the success he achieves on their behalf and he sees Philip Barnes & Co. as a major facilitator and supporter of local business people.
“Ability is what you’re capable of doing, motivation determines what you do, attitude determines how well you do it”
New Business
At Philip Barnes & Co. Dean Ackrill is a chartered accountant with responsibility for introducing new clients, Dean has a strong commercial background and adds value in every sense of the word. Dean worked for 13 years as an accountant, helping SMEs to grow and prosper, before being approached by a telecoms firm to become their financial director at the youthful age of 32.
During his 11 year tenure he managed growth, restructure, process improvement and austerity, with spectacular results and multi-million pound savings. In 2002 the firm was recognised as one of Deloittes Top 50 Fastest Growing Businesses.
Dean is an endlessly helpful, open and trustworthy professional. A family man, when he’s not hard at work he’s to be found cooking curries (and eating them), playing golf or enjoying his family holidays. His favourite quote is:
Over our 50 years of serving clients in Tamworth and beyond we have built our reputation and our success around a core of enduring values which put our clients needs at the heart of our business:
The integrity of our people, the integrity of our work and the integrity of our relationships with our clients has been a guiding principle since we started in business 50 years ago. We are open in our dealings, professional in our approach and build long term client relationships
You need a curious mind when you are dealing with HMRC we’re always up to date on the latest rules, guidelines and laws. We interrogate information to uncover threats and discover opportunities and we like to find out what makes you tick as a business so that we can help you to achieve your goals
Well, we are accountants! But what we mean is acknowledging and assuming responsibility for our actions, products, decisions, and policies. At Philip Barnes & Co. each individual takes personal responsibility for providing a professional and diligent service to everybody we encounter in the course of our day to day business. In short, its high standards across the board
Our home is Tamworth, once the great capital of Mercia, and we are proud to be rooted in this fine community. Many well-known Tamworth businesses who continue to contribute to the region’s success can be counted among our clients, and in the broader community we support and sponsor local events, teams and charities throughout the year.
If your company could benefit from an approach to accounting that goes far beyond the basics, that is founded on strong values of quality and service and that puts your continued success at the heart of things,
