Education

Leading auditors and advisers to the education sector

We are a leading firm in auditing and advising the education sector, regularly recognised for our work and awarded numerous accolades, including the award for:

Large Innovation Firm of the Year at the British Accountancy Awards for our product KS Cohere. One of the unique products designed by our Digital Transformation team
Responsible Workplace of the Year at the West London Business Awards

And according to the data collated over the last 10 years from the Charity Finance’s Audit Survey our charity team has consistently ranked first for overall service among the top 10 charity specialist firms in England.

Our Education Sector Group work with over 200 organisations, with a focus on:

Independent schools
Academies and multi-academy trusts
Oxford colleges
Large international commercial groups

We are very involved with the main education sector groups and regulators for independent schools. These include the Independent Schools’ Bursars Association, Catholic Independent Schools’ Conference, Girls Schools Association and AGBIS; and we are on the executive committee of the Charity Law Association.

For Academies, we sit on the Education and Skills Funding auditor liaison group and regularly participate in forums and working parties; we sit on the ICAEW’s charity technical panel and chair the ICAEW annual academies conference.

Alongside our experience as education auditors and advisers, these relationships enable us to stay ahead of emerging issues and offer our clients advice on a wide range of topics. We regularly keep our clients up to date through our specialist hubs and through our newsletters Education Matters and Academies Plus (A+), expert insights, and webinars as well as speaking at a number of external events. Our annual conference for schools with expert speakers on current topics has become a firm fixture in the annual schools calendar.

Our wide range of value-added services to our education sector clients are designed to help them continually improve the efficiency of their organisation and take advantage of new opportunities. These include: