Craufurd Hale Audit Services Limited

Audit and assurance services

On this page you will find information about the audit and assurance services Craufurd Hale Audit Services Limited can provide.  You can contact Chris Krol or James Daniell by email or on 01628 626333 to find out more.

A well-structured audit can bring enormous benefits in terms of improved practices and controls, and we have lot of experience in providing just such services.  But not every private company is obliged to have an audit or even to appoint auditors and for those companies who may be exempt from audit we can provide a suitable assurance report.

Currently, companies with an annual turnover below £6.5m and a balance sheet total below £3.26m may be exempt from audit, provided they also qualify as "small" under the Companies Act but even they can benefit from the value an audit provides.

Companies which are members of groups can only be exempt from audit if the group as a whole is eligible.  If any member of the group is a plc, or if a member is otherwise obliged to have an audit, then the group itself must have an audit, regardless of size.  An eligible group with gross turnover not exceeding £7.8m (or £6.5m net of intra-group turnover) and whose balance sheet total is less than £3.9m gross (or £3.26m net of intra-group balances) can claim to be exempt from audit and need not appoint auditors. 

Solicitors, estate agents, travel agents and insurance brokers may require reports only a registered auditor such as Craufurd Hale can provide, and we have experience dealing with such businesses.

In all our work, we seek to gain an appropriate understanding of the way your business works and we will discuss and report on any significant weaknesses we find.  Throughout, we aim to provide added value in the audit process even for those companies that are no longer obliged to have an audit.

Craufurd Hale is a trading name of Craufurd Hale Audit Services Limited is a company registered in England & Wales, company number 6830224.

Craufurd Hale Audit Services Limited is registered to carry on audit work by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Details of the company's audit registration can be viewed at www.auditregister.org.uk, under reference C002244627.

Craufurd Hale Audit Services Limited assumed responsibility for audit and similarly regulated work previously conducted by Hale & Company on 1 July 2009.  

The company's registered office is 14 Craufurd Rise, Maidenhead, SL6 7LX.