Association of Business Recovery Professionals
R3 members have helped to save many businesses, large and small, across most industry sectors. They also advise on personal insolvency.
The Insolvency Service operates under a statutory framework – mainly the Insolvency Acts 1986 and 2000, the Company Directors Disqualifications Act 1986 and the Employment Rights Act 1996. As of 1st April 2006 Companies Investigation Branch of DTI transferred to The Service and is based in offices in both London and Manchester.
ACCA
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the largest and fastest-growing international accountancy body with 240,000 students and 105,000 members in 179 countries. Our mission is to be the leading global professional accountancy body by reputation, influence and size, offering the first choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.
Business Link
Business Link provides the information, advice and support you need to start, maintain and grow a business. It provides information and advice to help customers make the most of their opportunities. Rather than providing all the advice and help itself, it fast-tracks customers to the expert help they need. The Business Link service is a crucial part of the government’s campaign to promote enterprise and to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business.
Companies House
The foundation of company information exchange in the UK: helping business, informing the public and benefiting the economy.
Federation of Small Businesses
The FSB is the largest campaigning pressure group promoting and protecting the interests of the self-employed and owners of small firms. Formed in 1974, it now has over 205,000 members across 33 regions and 230 branches. On the member benefits side, it offers assistance and support 24 hours a day, while its lobbying arm – led by the Westminster Press and Parliamentary office – applies pressure on MPs, Government and Whitehall, lobbies politicians in their constituencies and puts the FSB viewpoint over to the media.
HM Revenue & Customs
HMRC is responsible for collecting the bulk of tax revenue, as well as paying Tax Credits and Child Benefits, and strengthening the UK’s frontiers.
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales is the largest and most influential accountancy body in Europe with 128,000 members running and advising businesses of all sizes across the entire span of economic activity.
In addition to having practitioners on virtually every high street, approximately 60% of members work outside traditional practice in a variety of business roles including the majority of FTSE 100 Finance Directors. By drawing on the collective expertise of members, the ICAEW acts as an authoritative voice on business issues at regional, national and international levels.
Insolvency Practitioners Association
I.P.A (Insolvency Practitioners Association) is a recognised professional body whose purpose is to inform and regulate Insolvency Practitioners within the UK and Ireland.
The Association was formed in 1961 as a discussion group of accountants specialising in insolvency. The Association’s members, in the main, act as trustees in bankruptcy, nominees and supervisors of voluntary arrangements, liquidators, administrators and administrative receivers of companies
The Chartered Institute of Taxation
The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) is the leading professional body in the United Kingdom concerned solely with taxation. One of its key aims is to achieve a better, more efficient, tax system for all affected by it – taxpayers, advisors and the authorities.
The Institute was established in 1930 and received its Royal Charter in 1994. It enjoys a high international standing in taxation affairs and is a UK member body on the Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE), the umbrella body for 150,000 tax advisers in Europe.
The CIOT has a strong committee structure which carries out original work on such subjects as the study of tax legislation, international relations in the taxation field and tax training.
As part of its charitable activities, the CIOT also sponsors the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group which works to improve and simplify the tax system so as to make it more responsive to the needs of those who cannot afford to pay for tax advice.
