Significant expansion for innovative payroll and bookkeeping specialist
A Five Valley’s headquartered firm has grown its customer base by ‘several hundred’ after completing an exciting deal with a business from Essex - adding six staff to its 70-strong team.
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Gloucestershire-based BookCheck has revealed it has bought the payroll client base of the Essex firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors, Rickard Luckin, and is on the lookout for similar opportunities.
The Essex-based business operates throughout the South East with offices in Basildon, Chelmsford and Southend-on-Sea, and six of its staff will move to BookCheck as part of the deal.
James Wetherall, managing director of BookCheck, which is based near Stroud, said the firm’s core strategy is to “expand its payroll client base significantly, both through organic growth and acquisition”.
“We do anticipate carrying out more acquisitions of this nature in the future, so would encourage directors or partners in accountancy firms that want to focus on their core services and find a new home for their payroll clients, to get in touch us,” said Wetherall.
“We are also very interested in hearing from firms who want to refer any future payroll clients to us, as we have a highly scalable model in place”.
Steve Revill, managing director of Rickard Luckin, said the deal with BookCheck was the “best way” forward for its clients and would provide them with a “long-term, sustainable and scalable payroll service”.
Wetherall said the deal delivered “a significant increase in the number of companies' payrolls that BookCheck will now manage”.
BookCheck was started in 1994 by Anthony Pilkington. Today its services include payroll and Xero or Sage book-keeping together with management accounts - thoroughly checked and issued personally by a qualified accountant.
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