Azets advises on sale of Wescott Group to Coriant ift.tt/gR82UOf

Azets song ist doch älter als seins oder nicht.

Azets acquires Muldoon in first Northern Ireland deal - Private equity backed Azets expands into Northern Ireland with acquisition of Belfast-based accountancy and advisory firm Muldoon accountancydaily.co/azets-ac… via @accountancylive

Azets strengthens Kent business with new partner Nicola MacAulay ift.tt/4YVbMPE

Belfast-based accountancy & advisory firm Muldoon is joining Azets, the international accountancy and business advisory group. Continues the trend of independents being rolled up into bigger advisory networks.

Belfast accountancy firm joins Azets in next phase of its growth irishnews.com/news/business/…

Accountancy firm Azets welcomes new audit partner in Leeds trib.al/a9TyFU7

Jävsutredarna var jäviga. Hur bra blir inte utredningen då? "Företaget Azets anlitades för att genomföra en "oberoende" jävsutredning, men det har framkommit att de granskat sitt eget tidigare arbete, vilket kritiker beskriver som "farsartat" och inte oberoende. "

It's also interesting that the Sotheby's accounts show negative net assets of nearly £13m and are propped up by their parent company. When political donations are made from a company in a group,they often seem to donate from the loss making entity- no idea why this is! I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but they also have the same auditors that Reform/ the Brexit party used in 2019 and 2020 (Azets audit services).

A little bedtime reading live now. The Electoral Commission had the donor's name. The audited accounts didn't give it. A £990,000 donation from Richard Tice's company to the Brexit Party — named to the regulator, anonymised in the accounts certified as giving a true and fair view. Two firms. Azets, then CK Partnership. The same formula, year after year. NEW: The Donation That Was Hidden in the Accounts. theverifiedreceipts.substack…

The Formula That Followed the Party A new discovery raises a question that goes beyond any single auditor: who decided that the lender would never be named? Yesterday, The Receipts UK published findings showing that CK Partnership, the small London firm that has audited Reform UK's accounts since 2021, signed off anonymous loans across six consecutive sets of accounts without identifying the lender by name. Within hours, a reader flagged something worth investigating further. The Brexit Party, the immediate predecessor to Reform UK, led by Nigel Farage, filed its accounts for the year ended 31 December 2020 with a different auditor entirely. Azets Audit Services, a national firm based in Amersham, signed off those accounts in June 2021. The two firms share no directors, no partners, and no known personnel connections. They operate independently of one another. Yet in the related party note of the 2020 accounts, Azets used this language: "During the period, the Party received donations from a connected company with mutual director. During the period, the Party received loans from a connected company with mutual director." No name. No company number. No further detail. When CK Partnership took over as auditor the following year, they used this language: "During the period, the Party did not receive donations from a connected company with mutual director. During the period, the Party did not receive any loans from a connected company with mutual director." Word for word. The formula did not change when the auditor changed. The significance of this Under FRS 102 section 33, related party transactions must identify the nature of the relationship and provide sufficient detail for the reader to understand the transaction. Describing a lender only as a "connected company with mutual director" does not meet that standard, the identity of the connected party is the disclosure. Two independent firms accepted this formula without modification. This means one of two things: either both firms independently arrived at the same deficient approach, or the party itself determined how its financial relationships would be described, and the auditors accepted it. The 2023 accounts, audited by CK Partnership, provide a telling contrast. In the going concern note, the auditor names Richard Tice explicitly, the £1,083,000 net liabilities consist mainly of directors loans from Richard Tice. His name appears when going concern obligations require it. It does not appear in the related party note, where disclosure obligations also require it. The pattern The anonymisation formula first appears in accounts covering Nigel Farage's period as leader. It continues unchanged after his departure. It transcends the change of auditor. Across three political entities, UKIP, The Brexit Party, and Reform UK, and across two independent audit firms, the lender has never been named in a related party note. The question this raises is not principally about CK Partnership or Azets. It is about who decided that the connected company with mutual director would never be identified, and why both firms agreed. One name connects both audit relationships. M A'zami has been Reform UK's registered treasurer throughout, signing the treasurer's report under Azets in 2020 and under CK Partnership from 2021 onwards. The formula didn't change. The treasurer didn't either. CK Partnership was contacted for comment. No response was received by the time of publication.

A small update to today's piece. CK Partnership used "connected company with mutual director" to anonymise loans at UKIP from 2016 to 2018. When Azets took over in 2020, they used exactly the same formula. When CK Partnership returned in 2021, they continued it. The formula didn't follow the auditor. It followed the party. More to come.

A small update to today's piece. CK Partnership used "connected company with mutual director" to anonymise loans at UKIP from 2016 to 2018. When Azets took over in 2020, they used exactly the same formula. When CK Partnership returned in 2021, they continued it. The formula didn't follow the auditor. It followed the party. More to come.

Is mission creep hurting your Yorkshire business's cashflow? yorkshire.com/leeds/news/bus… Finance professional Matthew Grant from Azets shares 5 expert tips for SMEs to tackle this issue. #cashflow #business

@RobDorsettSky @JPercyTelegraph @GoldbergRadio @BuzagloToBalis @AliJones9 Hang on - the club had to borrow money BECAUSE Lai had literally stolen (I use that term without hesitation) money from the club with the Wisdom Smart “loan” that was made unlawfully by his stooge (then sole director of the club), Ke Xu, in blatant breach of his fiduciary duty to only act in the best interests of the company (being the football club) which that “loan” made to Wisdom Smart very clearly was not! I sent several emails to Ke Xu about this (I have copies), pointing out his blatant breach of fiduciary duty and demanding to know as a shareholder what he was doing to enforce repayment from Wisdom Smart. Every email was totally ignored. I also sent emails about it to the club’s auditors, Azets (I still have copies) who were obviously very interested. Crucially I sent an email to Rick Parry (Chairman) and Trevor Birch (Chief Executive Officer) of the EFL on 20th January 2023 about Lai’s “loan”, which led to two video calls with their “very interested” colleagues Mark Rowan (Chief Communications Officer) and Nick Craig (Chief Operating Officer) in May 2023 about all the shenanigans. I made them aware of facts regarding the Chinese ultimate beneficial ownership of the club which neither they nor the Premier League (who originally approved Lai as “fit and proper”) knew nothing about. Because of those illegal acts by Xu, as Lai’s puppet, money unlawfully disappeared from the club, leaving it days away from going into administration. If the club may potentially now suffer a points deduction some 3 years later directly because of the club having no option but to pay interest on expensive MSD loans taken out by Lai to literally keep the club in existence because he was unable to repay his own unlawful Wisdom Smart “loan”, then this would be a disgraceful gross injustice by the EFL and must be fully exposed and challenged. No sane person would deem that to a breach worthy of a points deduction. The EFL was made fully aware of the situation regarding that Wisdom Smart loan and if they cannot now locate their emails to refer to, I do still have them all. The EFL has had an absolute stinker here on multiple fronts (as did the Premier League before them) and they need to recognise that and immediately dismiss any charge against the club.

Greg Hogan appointed head of corporate finance at Azets Ireland businesspost.ie/article/greg…

Azets Ireland appoints Jennifer Kelly as payroll and outsourcing partner businesspost.ie/article/azet…

Ist nicht der Clubbesitzer der Vater von Azets Ex oder so? 😂

Azets makes strategic appointment in Wolverhampton trib.al/M2riD55

Huge thanks to the amazing team at Azets UK Kettering!! Animals In Need Northamptonshire was the charity for the year 2025, they did bake sales, climbed mountains & much more as well as volunteering with us at the rescue. They raised a fantastic £2,160 for the animals in our care