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Double Celebration for EuraAudit UK
Firm celebrates its 70th Anniversary and Chairman, Barrie Price, Celebrates 50 Years as a Chartered Accountant
Ripon August 23, 2009 - There was cause for a double celebration at the Ripon headquarters of leading accountancy and business advisory firm EuraAudit UK recently.
Not only has the company just turned 70 years old but its Chairman, Barrie Price, has also completed 50 years as a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
The firm has put off celebrations in order to focus all its energies on providing personal guidance to clients of all offices during the recession. Barrie Price, who was a local councillor for 23 years and Mayor of Ripon in 1980, said: “Our staff and colleagues today are taking care of the businesses affairs of the children and grandchildren of former clients who we have successfully guided through previous recessions. For me personally, it’s been great being a chartered accountant for half a century - It seems like just yesterday I was qualifying as a 21 year old in Bradford!”
The firm, which also has offices in Harrogate, Knaresborough, Northallerton and Tadcaster, now has 10 offices in all spread across Yorkshire and employs 64 staff.
It was founded in 1939 by Kenneth Lishman and the company underwent various mergers through the decades, with Barrie Price joining as a partner in 1962.
The company traded as ‘Lishman, Sidwell, Campbell and Price’ for four decades before renaming and relaunching itself as EuraAudit UK in 2005 and joining EuraAudit International, a network of small and medium-sized accountancy firms spread throughout Europe and North Africa.
Their mission today remains pretty much the same as it was 70 years ago: to help their clients make more money, keep more of what they make and invest the remainder to maximum benefit.
About EuraAuditUK
EuraAudit UK offers the full range of accounting services, specializing in VAT and tax planning, compliance and bookkeeping and business advice in areas including succession planning, exit strategy and businesses purchase and sale. Clients range from high-worth individuals and investors to large SMEs.