We believe the following makes Pitcher Partners the leading firm of advisors to professional services firms:

• Our ability to efficiently and cost effectively provide relevant and timely financial information to assist business owners with their decision making
• The strategic taxation advice we provide is critical to the effective structuring of both professional services firms and their owners.  This advice underpins growth strategies, taxation planning, asset protection and wealth management
• Our skills in working through financing issues to underpin growth or release profit earned for the benefit of the firm’s owners
• Our commitment to providing regular and ready access to practical advice delivered by a Pitcher Partners partner
• Our focus on key industry segments from which we have gained significant knowledge and industry experience
• Our ability to work alongside private business owners and assist them to develop and implement business plans and strategies and to challenge them on strategic matters
• Our value for money. Our philosophy is to provide access to experienced partners and senior staff at value for money rates.

Our Understanding of Professional Services

Across the firm, Pitcher Partners provides a range of services to private businesses and individuals. In particular, we have gained extensive experience working with a large number of professional service firms including lawyers, engineers, architects, recruitment, advertising, marketing and media professionals.

Pitcher Partners are well positioned to provide strong strategic and commercial advice on a wide range of business issues, including:

• Reporting on trading performance and profitability including performance against budgets
• Benchmarking of performance against industry standards
• Client profitability and contribution
• Divisional analysis and reporting
• Cash flow management, including the release of profit to owners
• Taxation planning and strategy
• Governance, asset protection and wealth management strategies.

Services We Provide to Professional Firms

• Outsourced Financial Controller
• Management Reporting and Business Advisory
• Tax Consulting
• Audit and Assurance
• Superannuation
• Insolvency 
• Investment Advice
• Transaction Services
• IT Consulting
• Succession Planning
• Structuring

Critical Point Network

The Pitcher Partners Critical Point Network is a support network to assist professional advisors by providing you with access to:

• Specialist skills to help you meet your clients’ expectations in areas that are outside your immediate field of expertise or experience
• Technical updates, public practitioner seminars, briefings, conferences, discussion forums, quarterly newsletters and regular bulletins to help keep your technical skills up to date and provide you with ideas to improve your own work practice
• Networking functions which provide you with the opportunity to keep abreast of current issues and share ideas with fellow members

Click here to read more about Pitcher Partners Critical Point Network.

Professional Services Internationally

Pitcher Partners has strong links with professional services firms internationally through Baker Tilly International. Our associated firm Baker Tilly UK Group LLP has a strong professional services team and is currently conducting a longitudinal study to gauge the attitudes and actions of legal firms in response to the Legal Services Act which comes into effect in 2011.  
 
Click here to see the emerging results of the study.