Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 Edition

52 www.finance-monthly.com Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016 UNITED KINGDOM MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING FIRM OF THE YEAR Winner: Firm Profile Maple is a multi-disciplined team with a wealth of experience in helping owner-managed businesses as they grow and develop. Our team members’ different strengths range from professionals in taxation, accounts preparation, payroll, and management accounting. We work to ensure all Maple clients get a three dimensional view of their business and the key to achieving this is to have a relationship with our clients so that we know them in person as well as we know their business. Maple are providing the range and quality of service that is usually reserved for larger firms. Our aim is to be the best accountants for owner-managed business . We have concentrated on minimising our clients tax burden and feel we have succeeded by innovating and caring for each client. With our continued innovation and growth we have seen client retention unparalleled in our industry. We have attracted clients, mainly by recommendation, with a high proportion of repeat business. The tax industry has continued to be a place of uncertainty. HMRC have further reinforced their intention of pursuing tax payers who indulge in tax avoidance. Maple believes that there are still tax saving opportunities, but clients now need to ensure they are not seen as aggressively avoiding tax. Maple Mission Statement The positivity of our people and progressive team culture ensure that we provide a solid base for our clients to achieve their desired goals for their businesses and meet their personal aspiration. We are the first point of contact when the client has any professional issue and we have experts in all areas either in house or external that clients can trust to take care of their issues. We offer a positive and unique service to our clients. Our aim is to create success by utilising our technical and commercial expertise coupled with our fresh thinking and innovative approach. This is a partnership, our passion and our promise. Maple Your total business partner Contact Details Maple Accountancy 83 Friar Gate, Derby, DE1 1FL Tel: 01332 207336 | Fax: 01332 207338 Email: Info@Maple.uk.com Web: www.maple.uk.com Jenny Priestley Steve Baker UNITED KINGDOM MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRM OF THE YEAR Winner: Firm Profile Gate One is a niche management consultancy that specialises in helping businesses across multiple sectors and industries permanently change for the better. Gate One was founded in 2013 with a collective ambition to create a different kind of consulting firm; to make our client organisations’ better, by being the ‘difference on the things that make a difference’. Our mission is to make a pivotal difference to the success of our client’s most important transformation initiatives. We do this through a combination of leading the delivery ourselves, and simultaneously building our client’s capability. To achieve this, we provide small, highly experienced and innovative teams, embedded seamlessly alongside client personnel. All our consultants are seasoned programme delivery professionals with between 5 and 30 years’ experience. Each also has excellent consulting skills, gained through at least 3 years as an upper-quartile Big Four consultant. Uniquely, we operate an internal ‘incubator’ model in which all consultants can participate, invest and contribute their own business ideas in exchange for equity. Just 18 months after we started the business, we launched our first incubator business, seed-funded by Gate One and backed by owner- investors from the team. Contact Details Gate One Limited Tel: +44 (0)207 293 0893 Email: info@gateone.co.uk Web: www.gateone.co.uk