BISHOP FLEMING REACHES GOLD PARTNER STATUS WITH XERO

MID TIER ACCOUNTANTS AWARDED GOLD

Top 40 UK accountancy firm Bishop Fleming has achieved Gold Partner status with Xero, the global leader in cloud-based accounting software.

As part of their strategic direction to offer a cloud based accounting solution, Bishop Fleming chose to partner with Xero to provide its cloud platform. With intuitive real-time, integrated software, the firm's clients have been taking advantage of the flexibility and benefits that cloud accounting provides and this has enabled the firm to become a Xero Gold Partner.

Bishop Fleming partner, Hazel Tucker said: "We have been driving forward our accounting service with the intention of running this from the cloud to provide our clients with maximum flexibility. Reaching Gold Partner status with Xero is an important milestone along the way. Having teamed up with Xero, we have seen the tangible benefits our clients reap through embracing the latest technology which will no doubt future-proof them against the government's forthcoming digital tax revolution."

Hazel added: "The functionality, efficiency and flexibility of Xero works very well for a large range of businesses."

Bishop Fleming was recently shortlisted as one of the best ‘Top 50 Tax Teams' in the UK at the British Accountancy Awards and was also highly commended as ‘Mid-Tier Firm of the Year'. The firm's professional services include tax, accounting and payroll to a large number of owner managed businesses.

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PHOTOGRAPH:Hazel Tucker, Bishop Fleming partner

FURTHER INFORMATION:

• Hazel Tucker:htucker@bishopfleming.co.ukor 01803 291100

• Julian Cramp:jcramp@bishopfleming.co.ukor 01392 448800

NOTES TO EDITOR:

• Bishop Fleming is a UK Top 40 firm of accountants with offices in Worcester, Bristol, Bath, Exeter, Torquay, Plymouth and Truro.

• Bishop Fleming has been listed in the Sunday Times Top 100 Employers in the UK.

• Bishop Fleming was shortlisted for "Top 50 Tax Team of the Year" in the British Accountancy Awards 2015.

• Bishop Fleming was highly commended for the "Mid-Tier firm of the Year" in the British Accountancy Awards 2015.

• Bishop Fleming won accreditation as an "Outstanding Investor in Clients" (Investors in Customers) in 2015.

• Bishop Fleming was listed as one of the 4 "Best Employers" by Accountancy Age in 2013.

• Bishop Fleming was the first UK accountancy firm to win "Investors in People" accreditation (and has secured re-accreditation ever since).

• Bishop Fleming is a member of Kreston International, a network of independent accounting firms in more than 100 countries.

• The firm focuses on serving and championing owner managed businesses and has sector teams specialising in:

• Academy Schools

• Charities, Schools, and not-for-profit

• Healthcare including Care Homes, Dentists and doctors

• Hotels, Leisure & Tourism

• Manufacturing Technology and Innovation

• Renewable energy

• Property & Construction

• Media & Creative

• Professional Practices.

• Bishop Fleming is unusual in having:

• A full-service payroll operation

• An independent financial advisory service (IFA)

• Tax Partners with international experience

• A VAT Director and a Technical Tax Manager.