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Manufacturing

We help you handle and respond to your own operational challenges from a position of secure financial standing. The manufacturing industry faces a variety of pressures and it is our role to oversee your accounting and taxation processes, giving you the opportunity to focus on managing your business.

Our team offers best practice advice throughout the business life cycle, including strategies for startups through to Management Buy-Outs (MBOs) and succession planning.

How We Add Value

  • Helping you create a clear accounting and taxation strategy that enables you to respond to your own operational challenges
  • Identifying opportunities for efficiencies within your business and recognising and responding to any supply chain weaknesses
  • Ideas on maximising tax benefits, including Research & Development (R&D) reliefs and helping you to select the appropriate VAT scheme
  • Advice for all sizes of operation, at any stage of the business lifecycle
  • Specialist help with buying and selling a business and effective exit strategy
  • Guidance on raising business finance to assist with future growth

Our
Experts

Mary-Anne Sargeant
Partner
BIO
Mary-Anne joined M+A Partners in 2003 and was made a Partner in the firm in 2006. Mary-Anne and her team are based in our Attleborough office and provide professional accountancy and tax advice for a wide range of clients, from brand new start-ups to well-established family and owner-managed businesses and from private individuals to sole traders, partnerships and corporate clients.

Mary-Anne is a Chartered Tax Adviser and Chartered Accountant and was placed top in the UK when she undertook her Chartered Institute of Tax exams. She is committed to building lasting relationships with clients, based on gaining a clear understanding of their current and future business needs and taxation issues.

With over 20 years’ experience within the profession, Mary-Anne has the knowledge and experience to provide a portfolio of accountancy and taxation services that support the establishment and ongoing development of a business. Working closely with clients to understand their immediate and long-term requirements, she gives knowledgeable advice that caters to each unique set of circumstances.

Mary-Anne provides guidance on all aspects of accountancy and tax, from deciding on the best business structure; making the move to self-employment; setting up a limited company and guiding clients on both how they work as well as their pitfalls; optimising personal and business tax reliefs; assisting with tax planning for private individuals and companies; to of course dealing with the preparation of accounts, tax returns and VAT returns.
EXPERTISE
  • Accounting Services
  • Business Services and Support
  • Business Startups
  • Corporate Taxation
  • Personal Taxation and Private Client
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Chris Dugdale
Partner
BIO
Chris has been with M+A Partners since 1992, becoming a partner in 1994. He trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Moore Stephens in London, winning a national prize for his results in the professional examinations.

Chris is proud of the way the firm has managed to move with the times without losing its focus on a partner-led, professional service. "My partners and I have regular face-to-face meeting with our clients and we invite them to give us a call if they have any concerns between meetings. It's only by knowing our clients well that we can advise them well."

Chris is also:

Trustee of The Assembly House Trust; Trustee of Priscilla Bacon Lodge Support Group; Member of Norwich Cathedral Trust Committee; Treasurer of Blakeney and District Wildfowlers Association
EXPERTISE
  • Accounting Services
  • Personal Taxation and Private Client
CONTACT
OUR TEAM
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WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY

It really helps to know that us entrepreneurs can get on with our business knowing that there are first-class professionals at close hand to fully support our endeavours.

Our tax affairs, both business and private, have been well managed by M+A Partners for more than ten years and we very much appreciate the help and excellent advice available. Queries are quickly answered by e-mail or telephone by any of the team dealing with taxation matters whom we find efficient, knowledgeable, helpful and friendly. We also think that M+A offer a good reliable value for money service.

Our company is situated in the health sector which can be very difficult to understand but you and your team at M+A have always shown great insight in this area. I am really delighted to have moved to M+A as our accountants and having you as our dedicated partner has made it as smooth as possible a transition. I look forward to many more years working with M+A.

Having worked with Martyn Page and his tax team at M+A Partners, I remain consistently impressed with their ability to give clear, pragmatic and understandable advice in what is a very complex area. I have recommended the tax team at M+A Partners to clients for both personal and business matters and the feedback I have received has always been extremely positive.

Our taxation affairs are reasonably complex involving family trusts, tax planning and our annual tax returns. We enjoy a close and productive relationship with M+A and we particularly value the pro active nature of this relationship where potential issues are highlighted early so that appropriate planning can be made in good time.