Are you looking for a Surrey based accountant that’s not only armed with all the knowledge and experience of the City’s leading accounting firms, but actually has a personality too? We have a refreshingly dynamic team that thankfully don’t epitomise the stereotypically dull accountant! We may love number crunching, but we are also quirky individuals with big personalities – making us completely approachable. Most importantly, we won’t blind you with science and use accounting jargon to complicate things – we will clearly explain everything you need to know and take care of the dull stuff that quite frankly, we love! Husband and wife team Ian and Gillian French met in their apprentice days at leading Accountants Ernst & Whinney (as it was then), in 1985. Having qualified as Chartered Accountants, they then followed different career paths at Ernst – Ian joined the corporate advisory department and Gillian specialised in personal taxation for small businesses – becoming a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. By 1994 the French family had expanded to include two children, but that certainly didn’t stop their ambition to launch their own accounting company. Ian moved to BG Exploration and Production in the Finance team and Gillian went to work for Andrew Nevill of Denyer Nevill in Epsom.
