What is the Difference Between a Chartered Accountant and an Accountant?
Put simply, a chartered accountant is an accountant who has professionally been accredited with ‘chartered status’.
This status indicates a high level of experience, training, and qualifications alongside membership of a professional body such as the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
To achieve chartered accountant status an individual must undergo years of training and pass a number of examinations designed to demonstrate a high level of expertise.
The term ‘accountant’ is not a protected one, meaning that anyone can use it, even if they lack the knowledge, training, or expertise to provide accurate financial advice.
They do still need to abide by certain rules, such as the FRCs Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes, but there is no guarantee of expertise.
Great accounting services can hugely benefit you or your business, but poor ones can have devastating consequences and could land you in very serious legal trouble, not to mention losing you a whole lot of money.
At the end of the day, if you are the subject of a statutory Audit or HMRC inspection, the risks are pretty high and you don’t want the fate of your business in the hands of anyone except the very best.
For this reason, you should only ever take financial advice or use the financial services of a fully fledge chartered accountant such as Accountants Plus.
Chartered Accountancy With a Difference
At Accountants Plus we pride ourselves on our exceptional commitment to training, extensive experience, and fantastic track record of helping businesses and individuals make their wealth to go further and grow larger.
Unlike some other chartered accountants in Glasgow, we don’t simply provide services such as compiling accounts and filing tax returns (although we certainly do these things) we also work with you to adapt your practices based on the details of said accounts and make accurate and incredibly useful future predictions using techniques such as cash flow forecasting and tax planning.
These predictions can then be used to inform future decision-making and help your company to achieve the growth you are looking for, and much more besides.
Our Glasgow team offer a personal touch that is hard to find in the business world and the coaching advice they provide to our business clients on a daily basis has already helped hundreds of businesses in and around Glasgow to thrive.
Smart Accounting for businesses and individual
As Glasgow’s leading firm of expert chartered accountants, we offer a huge selection of accounting and taxation services to our clients.
From tax planning to book keeping you will always receive the very same professional service and excellent knowledge when you use our Glasgow accountants. We specialise in providing accountancy services to small and medium sized businesses in Glasgow but also work with individuals to grow their personal wealth and get their affairs in order.
The personal service and support offered by each of our 30+ strong team sets us apart from other accountants based in the Glasgow area and has firmly established Accountants Plus as the number one choice for businesses and sole traders in the region.
