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BP SURVEY
Accountants
insolvency, and online accounting
expertise. Business development
over the past year has been
focused on owner-managed
businesses, startups, foreign
businesses in Ireland, credit
unions, professional practices and
insolvency services.
OTHER ACCOUNTANCY
FIRMS FEATURED IN
THIS SURVEY
Friel Stafford Corporate
Recovery
www.liquidation.ie
Partners: Jim Stafford, Tom
Murray
The firm provides the full range of
corporate recovery and insolvency
services, including liquidation,
receivership and examinership. Friel
Stafford also has extensive
experience of cross-border
insolvencies. A dedicated forensic
accounting team, with extensive
experience in carrying out
investigations and providing expert
witness reports, forms part of its
service.
Anne Brady McQuillans
DFK
www.annebrady.ie
Managing Partner: Anne Brady
A member of the DFK
International network, the practice
provides accounting, taxation and
related services to a client base
that includes multinational
corporations, public sector clients,
owner-managed companies,
partnerships and sole traders. The
firm was named DFK Firm of the
Year for the EMEA region in 2011.
An enthusiastic adopter of cloud
computing, the firm says it is
constantly trying to drive costs
down so that savings can be
passed on to clients. The firm
provides clients free extra-value
services such as regular seminars
on topical subjects.
Cooney Carey
www.cooneycarey.ie
Managing Partner: Tony Carey
Established in 1983, initially as an
advisory and corporate recovery
practice, Cooney Carey has since
grown to offer auditing, taxation,
company secretarial and general
business advisory services. Over
the last three years the firm has
provided recovery and
restructuring services in relation to
over €20 billion in debt. To meet
new needs, staff have earned
qualifications in mediation and
forensic accounting. According to
managing partner Tony Carey:
“We have focused on outsourcing
payroll and company secretarial
and we are now investing
significant funds in further
technology to make us more
efficient and better value for
money.”
FMB Chartered
Accountants
www.fmb.ie
Managing Partner: Tom
Fitzpatrick
FMB’s primary service areas are
audit and accounts, taxation,
corporate finance, management
services such as preparation of
business plans, insolvency, and
company secretarial. With a broad
client base across a great variety
of sectors, the firm works
particularly closely with
professionals and legal practices,
distribution, hotel, travel industries
and credit unions. Says the firm:
“Whatever way you look at it,
these indeed are taxing times and
at FMB we are dedicated to
making business less taxing.”
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