AN ACCOUNTANCY firm with a Swindon office recorded a second consecutive year of double-digit growth.

HAINES Watts' newest financial results has taken it to a £96m turnover group.

The firm's nine offices in the south west make up £8.34m of its turnover - these teams have seen 20 per cent growth on last year.

The firm has nine offices in the South West which make up £8.34m of the company turnover and these teams have seen 20% growth on last year.

Swindon managing partner Mike Lloyd said: “With the addition of new businesses to our group, we are steadily expanding our offering which is leading to a rounder advisory service with existing clients and generating new fee income. We are now able to advise wider on complex tax matters and private client work; we are fully able to provide business owners advisory support in today’s challenging climate.”

Following a 16 per cent group revenue growth last year, the nationwide accountancy firm had predicted a slower growth rate in the second half of the financial year because of Brexit but then achieved a 13 per cent leap in overall revenues from both organic growth and an active acquisition strategy.

The group's managing partner Michael Davidson said: “We have spent 2019 looking at where every region is in their business cycle and have benchmarked best practice levels. Effectively, we’ve been getting our ducks in a row which will now leverage our organic growth opportunity. We intend to recruit further across all our service lines and functional support to facilitate regional growth further in 2019/20.”