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YOUR SAY REVIEWS

“We always manage to hit deadlines for audit, Accounts and returns but only just and I know the Board would welcome more time to review accounts prior to agreement. Audit adjustments are not always clear and communication on reasons is sometimes very slow. At one school, there is a background conversion between our PSF nominals and your audit ones so a mapping exercise so that we can see exactly which of our nominals you are referring to in your groups is critical in us understanding and looking at differences in order to answer questions on the accounts. Communication can be quite slow. The Inflo tool is amazing and works really well for all of our schools.”

“1) Done well: Audit of the 2020-21 financial statements completed on time, including the submission of both the financial statements and the AAR to the ESFA by the set deadlines! We really enjoyed welcoming back the audit team on site (20% of fieldwork time), as it greatly facilitates the audit process and helps to answer audit queries efficiently. We value the fact that the Audit Director is very knowledgeable about our SAT. We very much appreciate how friendly and approachable the Cooper Parry Team are. 2) How to improve: This year, due to the long-term absence of the Audit Manager (communicated to us fairly late), the whole audit process was stretched to the 11th hour, causing added stress to both the Finance Team and our Governors (including the Accounting Officer). From our perspective, it often felt like we were a small SAT for Cooper Parry, perhaps a long way behind larger MATs in terms of priorities. Next year, we are looking forward to completing earlier submissions to the ESFA with the support of Cooper Parry. On another note, we liked working with Inflo (a big improvement on the year before), except that all Finance Team members experienced cases of missed notifications from Inflo.”

“Audit process with no central BST team was vexing, as I kept being asked for things I knew nothing about and was sure my CFO had already sent before leaving the academy trust. Due to the workload of the CP team there can sometimes be a delay in responding to urgent queries. Apart from that, we love you!”

“Approachable, helpful – been able to engage with others at Cooper Parry (not only audit team). Minor thing to note: on the audit some of the junior staff were repeating very basic questions (expected i know) but can be very time consuming for us. This was relayed to the team and they will make changes next year, so no concerns.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash will allow us to grow the business. Results were as we expected. Efficient communication and logical processes.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash may be used to pay for additional staff training. The results compared perfectly to our expectations.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash has allowed us to re-invest into our facility and broaden our product range. The results achieved met our expectations.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash has allowed us to reduce our overdraft. The results were slightly higher than expected”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash has allowed us to pay down debt. The result was above and beyond as always. The team is great to work with.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash has allowed us to invest in £500k of new plant & machinery being delivered in March. We had high expectations that were achieved.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash has allowed us to cut borrowings! The results achieved were very good.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash has allowed us to bolster our bank account as we are debt free and well invested. Rather disappointed that because of the size of the Fila Group as a listed Group in Italy we are constrained by the quantity of R&D relief which we appreciate does not fall within the responsibility of Cooper Parry. The relief obtained is much appreciated but simply below expectation as we did not appreciate the rules.”

“R&D Claim: The additional cash allows us to reduce our next bill. I wasn’t expecting there to be anything on this particular R&D claim, so anything was a win”

“R&D Claim: Additional cash will put some working capital into the business which is much needed, especially as Aerospace is still waking up from Covid. It far exceeded what I thought we could claim for significantly.”

“Very professional service and helpful and knowledgeable staff”

“I think the service from Cooper Parry has been excellent.”