About

A firm built on long relationships.

Administration Services Limited is a UK chartered accountancy and business advisory firm. We bring audit, tax, advisory and outsourcing under one roof — and we run every engagement with a partner in the room from the first conversation.

  • 30+

    Years advising UK businesses

  • 2

    Offices — London and York

  • 100%

    Partner-led engagements

  • ICAEW

    Registered audit firm

Our story

A practice, not a production line.

We were founded on a simple idea: that the best accountancy advice comes from senior people who stay close to the work. Three decades on, that idea still shapes how we hire, how we organise our teams and how we price.

Our clients are owner-managed businesses, professional partnerships, charities and the individuals who lead them. They stay with us for a long time — through funding rounds, acquisitions, succession and the quieter years in between — because the partner who started the conversation is still the one finishing it.

We're members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and registered to carry out audit work. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of independence, ethics and professional judgement.

What we value

Four principles, applied without exception.

  • Plain-spoken

    Technical answers, translated. If you can't act on it, we haven't finished explaining it.

  • Connected

    Audit, tax and advisory speak to each other on every engagement. One coherent answer.

  • Long-horizon

    We plan against the five- and ten-year horizon you actually run the business on.

  • Quiet competence

    Careful work, delivered on time, without theatre. The result is the marketing.

Milestones

Three decades, one direction.

  1. 1994

    Founded

    Established in North Yorkshire as a chartered practice serving owner-managed businesses.

  2. 2006

    Audit-registered

    Registered to carry out statutory audit work under the Companies Act.

  3. 2014

    London office

    Opened a trading office in Belgravia to support clients across the South East.

  4. Today

    Six service lines

    Audit, tax, advisory, outsourcing, corporate finance and wealth planning under one roof.

Work with us

Tell us about your business. We'll bring the right partner to the first meeting.

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