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My passions are playing squash and spending time with my young family

Phil works with a mixture of owner-managed businesses, property landlords, partnerships and sole traders dealing with personal tax compliance matters such as completion of self-assessment tax returns and completion of P11d forms.  He and his team also provide tax advice on income extraction forms for limited companies, capital gains tax and inheritance tax.

If I wasn’t an accountant, I would have been a midwife

Stacy is part of our Evolve team working across multiple offices, her role involves providing owner-managed businesses with not only compliance services but day-to-day support for their finance function to ensure timely and accurate information is available. She believes that in order to provide a proactive and cost-effective service, understanding the business and the people behind it is crucial.

My passion is my children and my family

Amanda works closely with the Partners and colleagues to ensure owner-managed businesses are given the support they need, tailoring the approach to each client depending on their specific needs and requests. Amanda believes that understanding each client and their values is key to maintaining a good client relationship and providing the best results.

My favourite film is “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” – Jaws

Adam is responsible for growing and managing the commercial service offering in the Staffordshire region. Adam has a varied portfolio of clients including agricultural, manufacturing, retail and engineering businesses.

My passion is Luton Town Football Club and anything with an engine!

Tom started in the world of accountancy, just as Making Tax Digital for VAT was becoming slightly more than a rumour. As a result, cloud accounting is almost all he’s ever known. Tom has achieved certifications in a mammoth range of cloud accounting software platforms and is passionate to maintain the certifications by continuing to gain a further detailed working knowledge of the software platforms and their connected apps & systems.

Tom has attended various accounting software conferences which have given him the exposure to speak first hand to many software and app developers about the needs of clients, and how the software systems can cater to those needs.

My passion is dancing, interior design & cooking (not all at once!)

Since starting Dains in 2018, Jessica has spent time expanding her knowledge on a range of cloud accounting software platforms. Jessica really enjoys learning more about the platforms and maintains software certifications to guarantee the best service when engaging with and helping clients with queries they may have.

With help from the Cloud Accounting team, Jessica has experience with specifically targeting common problem areas and helps address these areas with clients during informative sessions. Jessica is passionate about working with clients to make their internal processes more efficient by embracing the software’s capabilities and ultimately producing clean data on which informed decisions can be based upon.

I am fascinated by Crime Scene Investigation.

Laura started her accounting career with Dains back in 2012 as an apprentice within Commercial Services. Over the years Laura has put her hand to most area’s of accounting such as compliance, payroll, tax returns etc, but soon realised that cloud accounting was the route she wanted to pursue. By obtaining and maintaining various software certifications, Laura can see how cloud accounting software can transform the efficiency of your bookkeeping, streamline your finances and provide real-time information on your numbers.

Laura has experience working with a large number of businesses on converting and integrating them onto a wide range of cloud accounting software platforms in many different industries. The innovation of cloud accounting has allowed her to advise businesses further by collating and interpreting data to create meaningful insights into how the business is truly performing.