We are not a Big Four practice and do not want to be. Our clients are companies where the owner still reads the accounts.
Calder was founded in 2014 by two auditors who had spent long enough in large firms to know what owner-managed companies actually need — which is a phone call answered, not a partner appearing twice a year.
We audit around ninety companies a year, mostly between five and fifty million in revenue. Below that we usually tell people they do not need us yet.
Inventory, credit control and the VAT treatment of exports. Around a third of the practice.
Work-in-progress, retentions and revenue recognition on long contracts — the area where audits most often find problems.
Agencies, clinics and consultancies. Usually simple books and complicated owner arrangements.
Restaurants and small hotel groups. Cash controls, staff costs and the seasonality nobody budgets for.
Groups with a free zone holding company and mainland operating entities, which corporate tax made considerably more interesting.
Listed companies, banks and insurers. Those need a firm with a specialist regulated practice and we will say so.
