The Business Exchange Bath & Somerset Issue 2: Winter 2016/17 | Page 9

FINANCE The Milsted Langdon team. From left to right: Peter Groves, Rachel Verinder, Ian Lloyd and Dan Kenyon A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016 has been a busy and successful year for Queen Square based accountants, Milsted Langdon. Leading from the front, director Peter Groves and partner Ian Lloyd are ever keen to be part of the local business community, and the firm has been at the forefront of this year’s key issues. On the run up to the EU Referendum the firm staged a series of events chaired by their economic consultant, Kevin Butler. Kevin was former head of audit and regional director for the Bank of England In July Kevin wrote a column exclusively for The Business Exchange entitled ‘Life in a post Brexit world’. He urged all firms to reach out to their stakeholders with the message: “We Dan Kenyon (far right) with the Bath Young Professionals at Bath Racecourse want to carry on working with you for the long term and will find a way.” This summer the firm celebrated winning a major industry award. They were announced as winner of the Tolley’s Taxation Awards 2016 in the Best Tax Practice in a Regional Firm category. The award demonstrated Milsted Langdon’s consistently high quality of taxation services and technical strength, as they were just one of five UK accountancy practices shortlisted in the category. Dan Kenyon, general practice manager at the firm’s Bath office is an active member of the committee for the Bath Young Professionals group. Throughout 2016 Dan helped organise and represented Milsted Langdon at a number of events including one at Bath Racecourse. Dan said:“I enjoy finding new ways to help Bath’s young professionals to make contacts and engage with the city’s professional community, whilst still enjoying themselves.” In October, Jonathan Langdon, one of the founders of the firm attended a special celebration at Bath Abbey marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of Bath University. The Uni will always will be close to his heart as this is where he studied and met his business partner Simon Milsted. Jonthan said: “It was wonderful to attend such a great event alongside the great and good of Bath, including Royal visitor Price Edward. Bath is a special place and I’m proud to say it’s where I trained and chose to get married.” 2017 is set to be a full on year for Milsted Langdon, with a series of property tax seminars being planned alongside Peter Greatorex from The Apartment Company. They are also currently planning a business club dinner at The Pump Rooms in June. The firm who are shirt sponsors of Bath Rugby’s Jeff Williams, look forward to another year entertaining clients and professional contacts and forging strong relationships with the club. They will also be extending their programme of charity lunches, working with local law firms, helping local charities, schools and academies take control of their finances as Milsted Langdon specialise in this area. Milsted Langdon works across the South West helping businesses to grow and thrive alongside them. They have offices in Bath, Bristol, Taunton, Yeovil and London. For more info: www.milsted-langdon.co.uk [email protected] 01225 904940 (Left to Right) Henry Thomas - Bath Rugby, Dermot McNulty - Bath Spa Dentistry, Ian Lloyd Milsted Langdon and Jeff Williams - Bath Rugby. Launch of powerful new software for accountants A Chippenham-based firm have launched a pioneering piece of software they say is going to revolutionise the way accountants work. Jessica Pillow, owner of Pillow May Accountants has joined forces with two other partners Simon Goodyear and Ross Layton from the App Collective to release mTrio, a cloudbased solution that works on Salesforce, the world’s biggest CRM package. Jessica came up with the idea after becoming increasingly frustrated with the cloud-based solutions on offer. She found them repetitive, time-consuming and in places risky and thought there must be a better way of getting the job done. The end goal for Jessica was to create a system that was more efficient, freeing up her staff to concentrate on more meaningful work. One of mTrio’s first clients Della Hudson, of Hudson Business Accountants said: “After a year of searching, and not quite finding what I wanted, it was a relief to discover mTrio which will replace three existing systems and should allow me to step further away from the day to day running of the business.” To find out more about the software visit: www.mtrio.io THE BUSINESS EXCHANGE 2016 9