Company Overview
When Bill Johnston met John Carmichael in 1936, they turned a possible partnership into, what is now, a leading independent UK accountancy and business advisory firm. Johnston Carmichael is Scotland’s largest independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisers, operating across Scotland and from offices in London and Newcastle. As a firm, we audit more of Scotland’s top 100 private businesses, than any other firm, including the Big 4. We are a full service firm, offering businesses of all sizes core and specialist advisory services, including expert advice in the areas of tax, personal tax, specialist tax, audit, risk assurance, outsourced finance, digital advisory, corporate finance, international tax and much more.
As a firm, we are all about people. Building our own people to be their own leaders, as well as spending time to build proper relationships with our clients.
Branding or Mission Statement
Johnston Carmichael inspires sharp minds to think proactively and apply knowledge and experience to transform businesses and create success. We believe in remaining relevant, doing the right thing, leading our future and standing in other people’s shoes. People are key to everything we do. Developing our own people and working hand in hand with our clients to properly understand them and their business.
We commit the time required to properly understand our clients. This is the only way that we believe an effective advisory service can work.
Services Offered
Our services are wide ranging, providing all the support you need to start up, stay up, achieve growth plans or expand internationally. We offer the core services of audit, corporate tax and corporate finance. As a firm we audit more of Scotland’s top 100 private companies than any other firm. Our breadth of expertise also covers business advisory services, and an extensive range of specialist services, including innovation and entrepreneurial tax, digital advisory, outsourced finance, payroll, internal audit, private client tax, consultancy and much more. We’re here to understand your business, and help you grow and achieve what you want to achieve. Please find a full list of our services here:
Key Contacts
Jim Lockhart
Business Advisory Partner
+44 (0)7393 792091
Calum Purdie
Business Development Senior Manager
Involvement in the Space Sector
Johnston Carmichael is proud to have recently become a founding partner of Space Network, with the aim of supporting a growing cluster of space firms with their growth ambitions. We have a wide range of clients already working in the tech sector and manufacturing sector, with a number of clients operating specifically in the space sector. We have teams dedicated to supporting new sectors, new businesses, entrepreneurs and scale-ups and we can help businesses at every stage of growth, from start-up, right through to international expansion and beyond. We support clients with general business advice, as well as detailed specialist advice around R&D tax, EIS/SEIS schemes, international tax, fundraising and much more. We are passionate about helping to grow sectors and strengthen the communities businesses operate in.
Company Culture and Values
We have a clear purpose – to create enduring impact – not simply because we think it sounds good, but because the heart of Johnston Carmichael has stayed consistent for decades. We’re here for our communities, our people and our clients – for the long term. We’re proud of our ability to build proper relationships with our clients. One way we do this is by building our own people. Our business is one where everyone is a leader of their own career.
Success Stories or Case Studies
‘We chose to work with JC following a recommendation from a founder of another start-up. It’s clear they are used to working with high growth tech companies and bring real expertise into the team. JC provide us with payroll services, management accounting, R&D tax advice and have recently helped us set up our EMI Share Options pool. As well as all these key services they are always accessible and happy to jump on a call when needed. Suffice to say we’ve been delighted since we joined the JC stable: they’ve been amazing in guiding us over the various hurdles and I’m confident they will be able to continue to provide us with great service as we grow.’
Allan Cannon, CEO and Co-founder, Krucial (Formerly R3 IoT)
Future Collaboration with Space Network
Johnston Carmichael have great ambition to support the sector through this exciting phase, be that with well-established companies through to early-stage technology companies involved in. We also aim to help promote the sector through showcasing activity of the Space Network and its Partners’ and supporting initiatives as they arise.
We always adopt a collaborative approach and are open to hosting events, and expanding our networks further, whilst connecting our clients and wider stakeholders with others across the sector.
We also aspire to be the go-to firm for accountancy and business advisory support. We want to expand the success we’ve had with growing businesses across many other sectors and to do this, working together, listening and sharing is key for us.
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Website Links
Main Website: https://johnstoncarmichael.com/
Services Page: https://johnstoncarmichael.com/our-services/
Contact Page: https://johnstoncarmichael.com/contact/
Additional Information
Some of our other partnerships across other sectors but still of interest include:
Scottish EDGE - we have partnered with Scotland’s largest entrepreneurial funding competition for 10 years and engage fully with many of the businesses each year through our pitch practice panel sessions.
Glasgow Tech Fest – we have sponsored this growing ecosystem event since its inception.