A 'safe pair of hands'.
David Bowring - Managing Director, Bowring Transport
Bowring Transport has engaged the services of Shorts for over 20 years with our main point of contact being Chris Chambers.
From the annual accounts and audit to more strategic business planning, I can rely on Shorts for sound, no-nonsense business advice and I am confident they will always act in my best interests.
Our Company has grown significantly over the years, and Chris is always available for us to use as a financial and strategic sounding board for many of our key business decisions.
I look upon Shorts as a ‘safe pair of hands’ who provide me with advice that I can rely on. I would be happy to recommend their services and often do so.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.
What factors were the most important when you were looking to change advisers?
That they were not at a big firm! We’ve been with the big accountancy firms for quite some time but really, it didn’t work that well in practice and they started to price us out. We didn’t hit their sweet spot, we were in the bottom slice effectively and so the fees kept going up disproportionately. We felt we didn’t matter to them and we became sort of ‘peripheral’. We wanted to feel that we were a significant client for our advisers, so they would make sure they provided a good service.
The big firms started to price us out. We were in the bottom slice and the fees kept going up disproportionately.
So we decided it was a good time to refocus and look again at a more regional adviser; someone we could work with, somebody more akin to the ethos of Longcliffe. We looked around, saw that Shorts acted in this area, within this market, which was a good fit as we always try to source locally. All our people are within a very close circumference from the quarry, which helps us with planning, and everyone locally knows and understands what Longcliffe is all about.