Testimonials

Armstrong Watson provided a highly professional and collaborative audit service throughout what was a significant transitional year for Blyth Harbour Commission. The audit team integrated well with our finance function and approached the process in a pragmatic, responsive and solutions-focused manner from start to finish.

What could have been a particularly challenging audit was made far more straightforward through the support, communication and professionalism demonstrated by the team. The engagement was well managed throughout, with clear lines of communication, timely responses and a proactive approach to resolving issues as they arose.

The audit team were a real credit to Armstrong Watson and developed strong working relationships across the business during the engagement. Feedback from both management and the Audit Committee was extremely positive, particularly around the team’s collaborative approach and ability to work constructively with us to achieve timely sign-off of both the Blyth Harbour Commission and Transped accounts.

Overall, our experience of working with Armstrong Watson has been extremely positive and we look forward to continuing to build on the relationship going forward.

Thanks to everyone involved for the exceptional effort and careful attention to detail, including multiple thorough reviews of the documentation. Andy’s team also went above and beyond in coordinating with the bank to achieve a very favourable outcome.

From the initial funding options presented to us, Lee fully explained and advised. Lee guided us through the whole process from start to finish and was always on hand to answer any queries or concerns.

Andy and his team were consummate professionals from the outset. Throughout my dealings with them all my enquiries, and those from my legal team, were dealt with very promptly. Following receipt of an initial favourable advice, Andy was instructed to proceed and prepare a detailed valuation for presentation to the appointed expert pursuant to the terms of the Shareholders Agreement. This was a very detailed and meticulous piece of work. It could not fail to impress. The other parties produced a very slip shod valuation by comparison, and then some fanciful counter arguments by way of response to Andy’s report. These were dealt with in very short order in Andy’s supplemental report. When the expert’s fair price valuation of my shareholding came through it was within 4% of Andy’s valuation figure. Quality always shines through and the quality of the work produced by Andy and his team really shone through. Sincere thanks once again to Andy and his team at Armstrong Watson.

One of the challenges in a law firm is getting everyone to understand the business and approach things from a commercial perspective. Lawyers are focussed (rightly so) on client service and often don’t appreciate the value of the support they provide. The training we had with Armstrong Watson really helped us to focus the team’s minds on the value they were creating and as a result we now have an effective pricing policy that provides clients with choice and certainty whilst recognising the value that we create through our services. The training was delivered in a way that everyone understood and could relate to by Andy who is a true expert in professional services management and finance. We all came away feeling like we’d had a morning well spent.

"The session was really useful and thought provoking. Some courses simply flag issues to us and tell us what we should avoid doing. Andy's approach means not only were we made aware of potential pitfalls with things such as billing and fee quoting but he gave us solid guidance on what we can do to not only avoid the pitfalls but to turn those potential pitfalls into positive experiences for us and the clients.

Andy's knowledge and delivery inspires confidence in his recommendations."

"I found the introduction and objectives really helpful and it was good to meet Helen and Emily on the first module and understand their aims for the course as well as their thoughts on partnership and the impact of the pandemic on them and their business. The discussion with regards to partnership taxation was also helpful albeit we operate as a limited company. Andy was excellent and adaptable presenter and took on board comments and the request to adapt the partnership taxation to those in a limited company."

"In Module two the discussions regarding benchmarks and indicators of financial instability were really useful but I was particularly enthused as well as assisted by the KPI's and Benchmarks and the impact assessment - especially impact and getting my brain working with what differences could be applied. What was of particular use to me was understanding the KPI's and not needing to be awash with information to understand the direction and profitability of the business. The Key Indicators and suggestions were a reassuring endorsement of the direction our firm has been taking coming out of Covid and helped me understand the impact as well as reasoning behind our 3 monthly cashflow projections and our use of the pipeline procedure."

The specialist legal sector team at Armstrong Watson has been engaged by Lawfront on several transactions during the past few years.  This has covered financial and tax due diligence as well as introducing potential acquisitions to us.

We have always found them to be responsive and supportive, and their advice has always utilised their existing knowledge of the legal sector to provide targeted commercial and technical advice.  We would be very happy to recommend Armstrong Watson.

The team at Armstrong Watson has come to understand our family dynamic, culture and drivers over the period we have dealt with them, pulling us closer to them and introducing us to the wider service lines as and when necessary. We value them as a trusted advisor, always on the end of a phone and being a great sounding board for us.

Lynx Precast had not been getting the required service levels from previous Auditors. Having made the decision to find new Auditors, the transition to Armstrong Watson was seamless and straightforward and we didn’t encounter any issues in moving across.

From the outset we were impressed Armstrong Watson’s professionalism, knowledge and efficiency. With partner led involvement from Michael Morris from day one, they made us feel important and a valued client. Their methodical approach and prompt responses gave us complete confidence in their audit services.

AW audit approach was very thorough (which we expected) and the on-site audit team carried out their work in an effective and professional manner. We were able to build a good relationship with them and they enabled us to achieve our prompt audit completion and accounts filing targets. We would highly recommend their services to others.