Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs)

If you are interested in finding out more please download our Definitive Guide here.

This guide brings together the technical essentials with the human realities. It’s designed to help you understand the EOT model in clear, practical terms, and to give you confidence as you explore whether it’s right for you, your people, and your legacy.

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CBSL Accountants: for you and your business

We are based on the outskirts of Shrewsbury with easy access from the M54 – and South & North Shropshire – on Shrewsbury Business Park. We exist to support our clients - local, national and international - in establishing, running and growing their businesses. Our comprehensive range of services go far beyond those expected from a firm of Chartered Accountants, Business and Tax Advisors because of our core values which are pervasive through everything we do.

Our clients trust us to look after their needs, their family interests and their businesses.

We believe that we are a very different professional firm. Our website illustrates some of the people that work with us, and what they are passionate about. Our team are experienced and qualified individuals, all of whom are bought into our firm’s values. We care about our staff and our clients.

Please contact us to arrange a free meeting to discuss you and your business and how we can work with you.

We are Friendly & Approachable

We have a particular interest
working with

Families in business

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Affability
Availability
Friendly
Professional but informal
These are just some of the values which define us.

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Your accountant is one of your most trusted business advisors. We will provide you and your family with the audit assurance that you need for your financial statements

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Adrian's Blog

No Desks. No Script. No Idea What Was Coming.

We took the tables out of the room. That was the first clue our latest CBSL Onyx morning wasn’t going to be a normal one. No desks. No slides. No rows to hide behind - just a circle of chairs and a room full of company directors wondering what they’d signed up for.

Leadership Through Values

One Dilemma. Four Sets of Values. Four Very Different Businesses.

By Adrian Barker, Chair of CBSL Onyx

Who’s Your Money on for the Next Chancellor? And Why It Barely Matters.

Technically, as a Chartered Accountant rather than a Turf Accountant, I may not be qualified to ask the following questions, but let’s run with it anyway!

What Are You Really Charging For?

I do a lot of work with professional firms who charge by the hour. Solicitors, Architects and even the occasional Accountancy firm. A lot of my thinking comes from that experience, but also David Maister who wrote about managing the professional service firm, and Ron Baker, who wrote about Value Pricing.

My copies are over 20 years old, well thumbed, yellowed with age.

Based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire

We are based on the outskirts of Shrewsbury with easy access from the M54 – and South & North Shropshire – on Shrewsbury Business Park.

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We are very experienced at looking after all of the needs of UK subsidiaries of overseas groups and companies that have international aspects to their business, often acting as the single point of contact in the UK

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