Every one of our panel of chartered accountants follows a structured programme of continuing professional development each year, on top of the professional development they completed to reach professional qualification in the first place. New starters go through a proper training period before they ever touch a live client file, and every one of our team members holds current professional indemnity cover, which clients can check at any time.

Many of our panel of chartered accountants studied as students working towards their professional qualification while gaining supervised experience in public practice. Some joined as graduates straight from university, others joined after several years working for other accountancy employers, and all of them keep their ICAEW membership active throughout their career. Some of our panel of accountants are only a few years into their career, others have specialised for two decades, and clients get whichever mix suits the job. 

Our panel of accountants see themselves as members of the accountancy profession first and a business second, and that shows up in how they handle even the smallest query, wherever in the country they're based. Our panel are proud members of the wider accountancy profession; we hold professional indemnity cover as standard, and we take continuing education seriously.

If you are interested in how the chartered accountancy profession trains its people, we occasionally cover it on our podcast series, where our panel of chartered accountants talk plain English about tax, business and the accounting profession generally. It gives you a sense of the technical skills, the institute standards and the judgement behind the advice you would actually be paying for. Institute guidance shapes almost everything our panel of chartered accountants do, from the smallest bookkeeping task to a full statutory audit, and that technical guidance gets tested through a chartered accountants worldwide network, not just here. Understanding how chartered accountants work day to day, not just in theory, is part of what we try to explain to every new client.

Chartered accountants do far more than file a return once a year. Our services scale from simple bookkeeping right up to complex advisory work, and every service comes with a named chartered accountant you can actually call. Below is a quick look at the services our clients in Durham ask for most, alongside some of the more technical work our panel of chartered accountants undertake on their behalf.

Corporation Tax, VAT and Ongoing HMRC Compliance

We handle corporation tax, VAT, capital gains and inheritance tax planning for individuals and directors. We formulate strategies and taxation plans built around your business structure, not a generic template, and we deal directly with HMRC for you when tax issues come up. Our advisory services cover profit extraction, salary versus dividend planning and director remuneration too.

Business Growth, Finance and Financial Planning Support

We help with cash flow forecasting, management accounts and financial modelling so you can see where your business is actually heading. Good finance habits early on make everything else easier, and our panel of chartered accountants can help build those habits from day one. Our panel of chartered accountants will analyse your numbers, develop a clear financial plan with you, and give honest guidance on funding applications, expansion plans or a company turnaround. Financial planning is not a one-off exercise for us; it is something we revisit with clients regularly, and it applies whether you are in the public sector or private industry.

Business Structure, Audits and Buying or Selling a Business

Choosing between a sole trader setup, a partnership or a limited company changes your bill with HMRC and your risk exposure. Our panel advises on the right structure, prepare statutory accounts, and carry out both internal and external audit work to verify financial accuracy. Our panel also carry out audit reviews for charities and small pension schemes on request. Every audit our panel of chartered accountants undertake follows the technical standards set by the wider accountancy profession, and our panels audit process stays the same whether the client sits in the public sector or private practice. Working with an ICAEW chartered accountant means every figure gets checked against professional standards before it reaches you. When you are buying, selling or merging a business, we handle the due diligence and valuation work behind the scenes, including forensic accounting where a deal looks complicated.

Risk, Compliance and Governance for Growing Companies

We help organisations build financial controls that catch fraud and operational risk early, not after the damage is done. We work closely with whoever handles finance in your business, even if that is just you and a spreadsheet. We advise directors and board members on their legal responsibilities, flag insolvency warning signs before cash flow becomes a real risk, and support businesses through formal insolvency processes when needed, drawing on forensic accounting skills where records need untangling. Good governance reduces risk across the whole organisation, and no organisation is too small for us to take seriously. We treat every client's day-to-day finance as if it were our own.

We also provide support with:

• International tax, cross-border VAT and payroll for companies expanding overseas
• Payroll, pensions and profit extraction for owner-managed businesses
• Insolvency guidance and creditor management when cash flow gets tight

We start with a short call to understand your business, your industry, and what support you actually need. From there, we gather your financial information, agree on the process for how we will work together, and set a fixed price so there are no surprise invoices.

Once you join Vexo Accounting, you get ongoing guidance rather than a once-a-year scramble before a deadline, and that guidance gets written down, not just spoken over the phone. Financial education for clients matters to us too, so we explain the reasoning behind every recommendation, not just the recommendation itself. Every recommendation goes through a professional review before it reaches you. We flag issues before they become problems and explain technical points in plain English, with practical guidance at every stage. Our focus stays on being genuinely useful, not on billing extra hours for the sake of it, and our panel of chartered accountants give the same guidance to a sole trader as they would to a growing company.

We work with clients in Durham, and we deal with businesses in almost every industry. Whether you run a single premises or a group of companies with international subsidiaries, our organisation scales its support to match, and our panel of chartered accountants adjust their guidance to fit any organisation. As an accountancy firm in Durham, we provide the flexibility and expertise businesses need as they grow.

Our focus stays on owner-managed businesses, high-growth companies and everything in between. If you employ staff, our panel of chartered accountants can support your pensions and training needs, so your staff get paid correctly and build the skills the business needs. Membership of a properly regulated professional association gives you peace of mind, and government changes get tracked for you as standard.