Top Academy school auditor secures 200th client

Bishop Fleming, the UK’s top auditor of Academy schools, has signed the Dartmoor Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) continuing a period of strong growth for the advisory firm.

The firm, which delivers audit, accounting, tax, corporate restructuring and advisory services to academies and businesses, says that its 200 MAT clients represent over 500 individual schools across the UK.

This milestone reflects the success Bishop Fleming has had by positioning itself as the UK’s leading provider of professional services to academy schools.

Speaking about the appointment of the firm as the trusts new auditors, Susanne Kiff, Chief Financial Officer at the Dartmoor MAT, Susanne, said: “We undertook a rigorous process to appoint accountants to support the management of the financial affairs of the Trust. From the initial contact with Bishop Fleming, when Pam Tuckett came along to meet our School Governors, to the ongoing support, the Trust has found Bishop Fleming to be both professional and responsive thus enabling the conversion process to run smoothly at a demanding time for the school and Governors.”

“Bishop Fleming continue to be supportive and pro-active, for example in the provision of topical training seminars”, Susanne added.

On signing up the firm’s latest academy client, Bishop Fleming’s Head of Academies, Pam Tuckett, commented: “We continue to grow our Academy team, and provide Academies and MATs with the very best service that they can obtain anywhere in the UK. Schools that join us are joining a real family of clients who benefit from round-the-year service, including regular seminars, networking events, tailored information from blogs and newsletters, as well as a first class compliance service.”

Bishop Fleming are the main authors of the annual Kreston-sponsored Academies Benchmark Report, the leading independent report on the financial state of the country’s academy schools, and which was published earlier this month.

You can find a copy of the report here: http://bishopfleming.co.uk/sector/kreston-academies-benchmark-report/.