About Haines Watts

Haines Watts already have a significant friendly, local presence in the Thames Valley with our five offices across as many counties, as well as offering the strength of a national firm. We want to recognise the wealth of young business talent in the Thames Valley and we are therefore delighted to launch our prestigious HW Young Entrepreneur Award 2012.

• Our attention to detail and pride in our accuracy is something that has become synonymous with our name.
• This is only achievable by keeping up with the times - not only the technology that supports it - but the endless changes to tax and accountancy legislation.
• The blueprint for our future and what our brand stands for, has taken years to perfect.

• Cyril Haines Watts qualified as an Accountant whilst acquiring his first clients.

• The first office was set up in a wooden shed, with a desk, two chairs, a filing cabinet and a shared phone.
• Within the first year, two members of staff were recruited and new, larger premises found.

• With no proactive sales drive, more and more clients came on board having heard 'word of mouth' about the customer-driven, one-stop shop accountancy practice.

• A second partner joined and the acquisitions began. New services were introduced including Tax and Mechanised Bookkeeping.

• Our business continued to grow due to new and more complex legislation.
• New premises were found and by the end of the decade we boasted eight offices in the Thames Valley area.

• We expanded our office network across the UK.
• Due to increased client demand we set up our own Financial Services business.

• We achieved tremendous organic growth and became one of the Top 20 largest firms of Chartered Accountants in the UK.
• We offered a true alternative to the then Big 5, with a comprehensive range of services and expertise in-house.
• Specialist Corporate Finance and Forensic Accountancy divisions were started and we became a leading advisor on Tax Planning.

• Our focus was on being geographically close to our clients and we opened many new offices.
• There was significant expansion of our additional non-core services to ensure we continued to offer the ultimate 'full service' for all existing and new clients.

• Our new brand was launched - created to strengthen and emphasise our core values set out over 80 years ago.