Oakes Accounting

Oakes Accounting

Accounting Firm in Wirral, Merseyside, CH60 1UT

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About the Business

Chris Oakes

Chris started his career working initially for Guild Appleton & co., liaising with the clients and collating their business accounts. Having gained an invaluable amount of experience within the small business industry Chris moved on to work for KPMG Accountants in their Liverpool office. Within this particular firm he extended his working knowledge to include insolvency.

With this additional field of experience he followed promotion to Price, Waterhouse, Coopers, where he was responsible for managing a team of staff and leading the Insolvency Unit. This entailed turning flailing companies around, and eventually selling them as a going concern. It gave Chris an invaluable insight into some of the pitfalls that small businesses may encounter, and could draw on his many years of experience of how to avoid this unsatisfactory and distressing conclusion to a business.

With the small business trader focusing Chris’ attention he decided to gain direct experience within that field, and accepted a job working as Financial Controller for a restaurant chain. Whilst there, Chris and his team worked hard to expand the business rapidly, and eventually it was sold to a London based PLC which is still trading today. Chris feels privileged to have been part of this success story, and of how his input was so valued by his employers.
Prior to making the leap into becoming self- employed in 2010, Chris worked as the Financial Controller for a service and repair business in Knutsford. Under his guidance the company soon raised its profile, and the annual audit results were greatly improved.

Fiona Oakes

Fiona is married to Chris and lives in Heswall with their two teenage children. She attended West Kirby Grammar School. After leaving school she worked in the financial services industry for 22 years and moved around the region following promotions within the Customer Services and Sales areas. Successfully passed the Financial Services Compliance and Banking examinations. Always customer focused, with a friendly and sunny disposition, making her popular with clients and consequently successful in her field of expertise.

Fiona left the Financial Services industry and studied Accountancy at The Wirral Metropolitan and Carlett Park Colleges, leaving with an AAT Level 2 National Vocational Qualification in Accounting. In addition she also passed the OCR Certificate in Bookkeeping for both manual and computerised records.

In 2003 Fiona changed her career direction totally and attended a course on Childhood Studies at the Twelve Quays College. She enjoyed it so much it convinced her to follow a career involving children. Fiona went on to qualify as an Early Years Educator. She was inundated with clients as soon as she opened the doors of her business, and is still very busy working actively in this line of work today.

She passed the Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce, demonstrating her commitment to her job and the children who she cares for. Fiona is dedicated to developing and educating all children under the age of six years old, and was thrilled when she was awarded an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted grading during her formal inspection in March 2015.

Fiona now combines her accountancy and expertise in childcare practice by working with Chris as his Office Manager at Oakes Accounting, on a part-time basis.
Business Services
Accountancy

Accountancy

The year end accounts provide invaluable information about your business, and are particularly useful if for example you wish to make a mortgage application or raise finance. We can advise you on how to strengthen your record keeping procedures which in turn will help you to run your business more effectively. Having accurate and timely management information can assist you in managing your stock levels, your customer balances owed, your supplier balances due and your cash flow.

Your accounts will be prepared in accordance with accounting standards and we will check that you are claiming everything that you are entitled to.

Whether you are a sole trader, partnership or limited company we can relieve you of what can be an extremely stressful and time consuming process.

And many more.
Location & Hours

37 Meadowcroft

Wirral, CH60 1UT
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