About Crouch Chapman

Crouch Chapman is a firm of Chartered Accountants established in 1892 in the City of London. The firm has seven partners and forty staff. These are divided between audit, taxation and corporate recovery.

Our audit department service a wide variety of clients with turnovers ranging from £50,000 to over £30 million. It has developed techniques and procedures to ensure compliance with the latest audit and reporting regulations. These are combined with audit programmes tailored to meet the needs of individual clients. It is our aim to undertake audit work that enables us not only to form an audit opinion but also to provide the maximum benefit for the client. This is particularly important as clients expand and move between size categories which determine levels of disclosure and format of accounts.

Taxation advice and planning is an important part of the firm’s general practice and we have assembled a partner-led team of specialists in UK and overseas taxation matters. The tax department handles all aspects of personal, trust and corporate tax and we specialise in giving advice on complex international taxation issues when necessary. Clients receive annual budget brief and seasonal tax newsletters. We also act for executors in dealing with Probate and inheritance tax returns.

Corporate recovery is handled with our London office under the trading name of Benedict Mackenzie.

It is our belief that there must be significant partner involvement with all our clients. This ensures that we are able to give personal service and make available advice and assistance when we perceive a need. We appreciate that this need may arise at any time during the year and we seek to develop long-term relationships so that the clients are confident in approaching partners and audit managers at any time. The engagement partner would seek regular contact to help build a good working relationship and ensure that they get to know your company and the people in it.

This enables us to identify your requirements at an early stage and allow meaningful and timely advice to be given to you to maximise the potential of your business.

We believe one of the most important factors in considering your selection of a firm of accountants and auditors is the people with whom you will be working.

We are confident that the partners and staff in our team will be knowledgeable, accessible and prepared to render professional advice promptly and on a friendly basis. Details of the partners in the general practice are provided below.

Kevin Foster		Kevin qualified as a chartered accountant with Crouch Chapman in 1996 and became a partner in 2000. His main area of expertise is auditing and accounting for small to medium size enterprises, including corporate and personal taxation advice. More recently Kevin has gained substantial experience in acquisitions, particularly in the nursing and residential home sector. kfoster@crouchchapman.co.uk


Nick Heath		Nick is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years experience in dealing with charities. He is also a Chartered Tax Advisor and therefore able to offer advice on the tax issues facing any organisation. He works closely with the firm’s tax department and with outside experts, particularly in the field of VAT, when he assesses that more specialist advice is required. Personally he maintains his knowledge with participation in such events as the Charity Investment Forum and participation in the discussion process on the new SORP. As the National Treasurer of the Huntington’s Disease Association, he is well aware of the pressures of acting as a charity trustee and appreciates the need for professional advisers to be pro-active in providing advice and support on accounting and tax matters. nheath@crouchchapman.co.uk


Keith Chapman		Keith qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1970 and became a partner with WH Cork Gully & Co in 1973. Following several mergers, he left to set up his own practice in 1982 which merged with the old established firm of Crouch Chapman & Co in 1988 to form Crouch Chapman. Keith has substantial experience in most areas of professional practice but now specialises in taxation and corporate services. kchapman@crouchchapman.co.uk


Robert Howard		Robert trained with Grant Thornton and having completed his training contract moved to a predecessor firm of Crouch Chapman. He qualified in 1986 and became a Partner of the firm in July 1990. He specialises not only in audit and information technology, but also has had experience in Inland Revenue investigations including those under Code of Practice 9. He has also been involved in fund raising exercises for clients including the preparation of complicated forecasting models. Even with his work and more importantly his family commitments he holds a couple of directorships and so is aware of the day to day problems of companies whether cash flow or red tape. rhoward@crouchchapman.co.uk