Our Underlying Approach Riverside Financial Consultancy Ltd based in Hammersmith West London, was established in 1988 to help owner-managed businesses and individuals with their accounting function and tax obligations. The prevalent attitude of most providers of accountancy services at the time was to provide an annual/ quarterly service with little or no useful information or forward tax/financial planning: and it is still very much the case. This rather narrow ‘compliance ‘ approach did not really cater for small businesses properly. Poor advice was very commonplace and good advice was expensive especially for small businesses. However by staying on top of financial results and with in-depth knowledge of customers and their businesses, Riverside provided a fully comprehensive accounting services for the same price or less than a normal compliance based one. The results were often significant cost and tax savings to customers. Small businesses which had never been able to afford a decent financial accountancy service were able to confidently feel they had ‘outsourced’ their accounting function successfully and actually saved money; enabling them to devote more time to what they do best -‘running their business’.