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Specialisms

Our Services for Quoted Companies

Wingrave Yeats focuses a significant part of its offering on supporting the future development of Quoted companies. We also specialise in AIM listings, for which see AIM.
Our client service team has many years of experience in coordinating multi-national services for listed clients, and we are active on the main market. Our services for Quoted Companies cover:


Strategic advice for Smaller Quoted Companies
Our commercial insight, combined with our extensive public company experience, means that we understand what our clients are trying to achieve and can focus on what matters to them. Our partners have acted as Finance Director for a number of clients during fund-raising, and provide a high-level input into the issues facing our clients.


Reporting accountants and transaction support, including fundraising
Our team has acted as Reporting Accountants on the whole range of transactions, including IPO's, rights issues, Class 1 circulars and public-to-private transactions, and this means that we can add value to any transaction from day one.


Audit and Corporation tax compliance
We always look ahead and try to anticipate tomorrow's problems today, and we therefore beleive that planning is critical to the successful delivery of our services. We therefore offer an integrated audit and tax compliance service, minimising disruption to our clients and avoiding duplication of effort.


Tax Planning
We can provide advice on a wide-range of tax matters, covering employee incentivisation, international transfer pricing, transaction structuring and VAT.


IFRS reviews
The implementation of IFRS is a critical issue facing public companies. We help guide clients through the specific standards which are relevant to them, highlighting alternative treatments and developing "pro-forma" templates for the presentation of future income statements and balance sheets.


Corporate governance and risk management
Public focus on corporate governance has never been greater, and although an audit provides some assurance, we can undertake additional work to provide additional comfort to the board. For example, we can undertake internal audit and system review assignments.


Outsourcing and conflict work
Many smaller listed companies do not find it economical to maintain a full accounts department, and we provide a range of outsourcing opportunities which provide flexible and cost-effective support for developing businesses. We also undertake work which our clients' auditors may not perform due to independence considerations, such as preparing sets of accounts for them to audit.


Conflict and Sarbanes Oxley
We undertake work which our clients' auditors may not perform due to independence considerations, such as preparing sets of accounts for them to audit and acting as an interface for the audit process between them and their clients.


Back Office Accounting Support
Many smaller quoted companies do not find it economical to maintain a full accounts department. We provide a range of outsourcing opportunities which provide flexible and cost-effective support for such developing businesses. This eases considerably the path and timescale towards IPO.


Management Reporting
The type of work we are involved in ranges from:

• Selecting and Installing accounting packages, developing a bespoke chart of accounts (for London Mining Plc)
  
• Creating a Mapping Model to the management reporting framework maintained on Excel
  
• Corporation tax and PAYE/ NIC registration and VAT returns
  
• Book keeping and production of monthly reporting packs for management and shareholders

Liaison with the Incumbent Auditor

• We prepare the reporting pack required for audit and liaison with the auditors during the process
  
• We prepare annual Statutory accounts for subsidiaries of large International Groups in the Hotel/Leisure Sector
  
  

Please contact Kathryn Moran if you would like to discuss our services for listed clients further.