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We are a 'one-stop-shop' for all small and medium size enterprise businesses Why choose us?HW Associates, business advisors and accountants.
HW Associates is an independent firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors providing a wide range of advisory and compliance services to small and medium sized entrepreneurial owner managed businesses in a wide range of industries.
We aim to build a strong working relationship with our clients and to provide practical, high quality, relevant advice.
We add value by helping each client to make the right decisions for their business.
Our Services
For Businesses
Our reputation is for helping businesses from conception through to sale or succession. We will be very pleased to help yours.
For Personal
We deal efficiently with all aspects of your tax compliance so that you meet your legal obligations on time without the stress of doing it yourself.
For Charities & Not-For-Profit
Our aim is to assist you as Trustees to manage your charity as efficiently as possible and to avoid the minefield of reporting regulations facing you.
Our People
Whilst technical competence is paramount equal weighting is given to the importance of empathy, approachability and free thinking in our staff.
Our culture understands the stresses that business owners face and strives to achieve positive outcomes on their behalf.
Blog
Making Tax Digital – Still a Mystery to SME’s ?
The 1st April has gone, Making Tax Digital is up and running and the sun still shines! Although MTD applies to VAT periods starting after the 1st April it is estimated that in excess of 50% of SME’s either know nothing or little about it .Of those that are aware some...
read moreGet ahead of the game: Plan for your 2018/19 Self Assessment Return
Have you filed your 2017/18 self-assessment return yet? Time is fast running out if you are to meet the 31st January deadline and avoid a fine. Smart tax payers are already planning their 2018/19 returns for completion as soon as possible after April .These must be...
read moreOutsourced Management Accounts Information = Good Management
Hitchin based Chartered Accountants and SME Advisors HW Associates recognises that the last thing that any business wants is unexpected surprises. The adage that what can be measured can be managed is as relevant today as ever. Whilst it is not entirely true that what...
read moreWe can help
We work with you and for you, not against you.
Our experience, expertise and practicality will complement your own skills and can only enhance your business.