Accountants in Derby - Alpha Accountancy Services

Legally anyone can call themselves an ‘accountant’ without any training or experience. To make the right financial decisions, you need the right advice.

You wouldn't visit a dentist that hadn't had the right training or didn't have any qualifications, so why let someone loose on your accounts and end of year returns that isn't qualified.

A qualified accountant will:

be a member of a professional accountancy body
have completed in-depth training
be committed to continuing professional development training every year to keep their knowledge and skills up-to-date
be bound by a Code of Ethics
hold a practicing certificate and professional indemnity insurance if they offer professional services to the public
be subject to review by their professional body thereby upholding and developing the highest professional standards.

When you see an accountant make sure you ask them:

Are you a qualified accountant?
Are you a member of a professional accountancy body?
Do you hold a practicing certificate?
Do you have professional indemnity insurance?
Do you offer the services and have the experience I need?
Are you authorised to do the work that I need?