Azets acquires £2.5m turnover Inspire Accountants in Poole
- Azets has acquired award-winning business and tax advisory firm Inspire Accountants, an independent firm based in Poole
- The acquisition strengthens Azets’ established presence in the South
Azets, the UK’s largest accountancy firm and business advisor to SMEs, today announces the acquisition of Inspire Accountants - an award-winning independent business and tax advisory firm based in Poole.
It marks the third acquisition in three months as Azets continues to deliver on its ambitious growth plans across the UK.
Inspire Accountants was established in 2004 and has an office in Poole with 30 employees providing services to around 1,000 clients across Bournemouth, Poole and the wider Solent region.
The acquisition takes Azets’ regional network to over 85 offices across the UK and enhances the UK Top 10 accounting firm’s key service lines to entrepreneurial and growing businesses in Poole and its surrounding area.
Inspire Accountants is a niche practice specialising in providing advisory and strategic advice to entrepreneurial and growing businesses and also provides an on-call Financial Director service, known as FD on Demand, which provides clients with the experience and expertise of a full-time FD for the times that they need it. Inspire Accountants’ clients will benefit from Azets’ current and future investment in technology,helping to provide smarter delivery of client services to help them grow, as well as access to more specialist advisory services such as banking and finance, data analytics, cyber security, forensics and restructuring.
Acquiring Inspire Accountants adds 30 people in business support and client-facing roles to the Azets team, including 11 Partners.
William Payne, London and South East Regional CEO at Azets, said:
“We’re excited to welcome Inspire Accountants to the Azets family; this firm has a reputation for high-quality people providing high-quality client service. The acquisition is another significant step on our growth journey to increase revenue by 50% in the next five years, following quickly on from our recent acquisition of Garbutt+Elliott in Yorkshire. Inspire Accountants is established among the leading accounting and business advisory firms across the Bournemouth, Poole and wider Solent area, with a broad capability across accountancy and business advisory services.
“Azets offers trusted, business critical advice, compliance and outsourcing services to ambitious companies and business owners. Inspire Accountants is a logical and valuable add on as we work to provide our clients with more advice that will improve their businesses and their lives.
“We believe strongly in the local delivery of personalised client services, whilst giving businesses in the South the opportunity to benefit from our breadth, depth, and experience as an SME focused international accounting, tax, audit, advisory and business services group. Inspired Accountants has a strong regional reputation for its personable approach and specialist expertise which, combined with Azets’ local and international reach, opens up a wealth of opportunities for our clients.”
Warren Munson, Founder and Managing Director of Inspire Accountants, said:
“This is a wonderful opportunity for Inspire Accountants and our clients, and the acquisition demonstrates our commitment to the continued growth of our business, as we enter the next phase of our long and successful journey as part of the UK’s newest Top 10 accounting firm. Azets is a business which shares our clear focus on people and clients – it is the perfect fit both strategically and culturally.
“Inspired Accountants has a hard-earned reputation for delivering service excellence to businesses across Bournemouth, Poole and the wider Solent region. As part of Azets, existing and new SME clients will benefit from an even broader set of specialist expertise, as they continue to drive forward the UK’s economic recovery.”
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Notes to editors
- William Payne and Warren Munson are available for interviews.
Media contact
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About Azets
Azets is an SME focused international accounting, tax, audit, advisory and business services group, with 160 offices across the UK and Europe, over 6,500 employees and 600 Partners. In the UK, Azets is the largest regional accountancy and business advisor to SMEs and the 9th largest accountancy business. Blick Rothenberg, the award winning international corporate and private tax and accounting brand is also a part of Azets Group.
The Azets client experience is based on delivering a highly personalised service, through its local office network and its proprietary digital workplace technology, “Azets CoZone”. A unique cloud-based portal, Azets CoZone offers SMEs a market leading digital solution, with instant access to information about their business that simplifies workflows, increases operational productivity, and supports a more productive client relationship.
Across its network of offices, Azets supports c.120,000 clients across the UK and Europe. Clients include enterprises, SMEs, large scale business, public sector, and private clients, across multiple sectors.