About Us
With over 20 years in accountancy and tax services, our aim is to ensure you understand all advice given regarding your business and tax positions as clearly as we do.
Services Menu
Why Choose Us
Our friendly and professional approach ensures that your queries are dealt with in a helpful manner, with as little jargon as possible. The advice we provide to our clients is tailor made to fit your individual needs as we are fully focused on what is best for you, our client.
We encourage our clients to pick up the phone and run their ideas past us or drop us an email if there’s anything they’d like to discuss. We will never charge you for just popping in to run something past us and will always let you know if any of the work needed as a result of the phone call/chats will incur a separate charge so you can agree it.
Although one of our book keeping staff might be your day to day contact, all final accounts and tax returns are reviewed and finalised by our director Katie Bladen, giving you peace of mind.
As we keep up to date with the latest legislation then we will contact you with anything which we feel is relevant to your business/sector e.g. as a result of any Budget announcements.
We also reach out to some of our professional partners from time to time, if we feel like you or your business could do with more help, as we’re not regulated to carry out certain aspects of financial advice, in particular surrounding pensions, financial investments or legal advice.
You’re under no obligation to work directly with them but we often find that the added services they can offer massively help our clients.
Our approach:
1. Initial meeting:
First up is what we call your discovery meeting, which is completely free of charge. This can be a face to face meeting (at our office or yours), a telephone call or a video call, whichever you prefer.
Even if you are not based in Newport, we are more than happy to travel to meet with you in person.
Our team will use this time to run through your situation, discuss what you are looking for and work out how we can help you. This call/meeting could cover anything right through from payroll and CIS to VAT and book keeping or to accounts and tax work.
Take this time to ask us as many questions as you like, whether that’s about us, our firm, or something more specific relating to your business. We will also use this time to ask you questions about your business and your personal taxes to ensure we know which services would help you before providing you with a bespoke, no obligation quotation.
2. No obligation quotation:
Following our discovery meeting, we will send over a no obligation quotation by email which will also list all the services we will be providing you with. If necessary, we will also provide details of other services which may be relevant to you in the future.
We are more than happy to provide you with a fixed fee quotation if it suits your business, and you can choose from monthly, quarterly or annual payment options to suit your needs.
This quotation will provide details about the next steps needed if you want to appoint us as agents, but please contact us if you have any queries.
Once the quotation has been accepted then it’s time for the next steps
3. Client set up and paperwork
Once you have accepted our quotation then you will be issued a letter of engagement which will also hold our terms and conditions (these can also be viewed here).
You’ll be provided with a login to your secure client portal where you can view any important information, upload any documents needed and view your welcome pack. This is also where any documents we need you to sign will be uploaded.
If necessary, we will manage the handover from your current accountant and provide step by step instructions about any paperwork which needs to be signed.
Quick Contact
Meet The Team
Courteney Penn
Admin
Courteney is often the first point of contact at Vaughans, and deals with all your Company Secretarial needs
Outside of work Courteney’s time is spent playing with her son as well as attempting to hit her reading goal each year. She’s also a fan of the Formula 1
3 things you’d take to a desert island?… Pillow, matches, a flask
Katie Bladen
FCA CTA
Director
Katie qualified as a Chartered Accountant with ICAEW in 2011 and has worked hard behind the scenes to build Vaughans Accountancy.
Every other weekend Katie can be found watching Newport County with her son and enjoys going to live music events with her husband
3 things you’d take to a desert island?… Blanket, torch, some sort of music!
Laura Fry
MAAT
Payroll / Accounts Assistant
Laura heads up our payroll department here at Vaughans as well as helping clients with their VAT and bookkeeping
When she’s not in the office, she enjoys watching musicals, spa visits and moonlighting as a chauffeur for her teenage daughter
3 things you’d take to a desert island?… Solar powered radio, Tolkien’s book collection and a camp bed
What Our Customers Say
Rating
Great service & they are very responsive to the various queries I have. I'd happily recommend Vaughans Accountancy Services, as they go that extra mile.
Katie and her team didn’t just provide the various accountancy / payroll / tax / self assessment services that our small business / we needed, ultimately they provided peace of mind. Over the 10 years we’d had a business relationship, it wasn’t just answering questions we asked, it was also observing where we hadn’t perhaps asked the right ones. Nothing ever seemed too much trouble. And frankly they were great value too.
Vaughans have looked after my business since I started the company over 4 years ago. Helping me navigate and understand my business and tax implications. They are super responsive, supportive and trustworthy. Highly knowledgeable and recommended 🤩
I’ve had a great experience with Vaughans Accountancy Services Limited. They’re not only professional and reliable, but also genuinely approachable and always happy to help. Nothing ever feels like too much trouble, and they explain everything clearly. First-class service all around—highly recommend
I have been working with Katie and the team for a number of years and would highly recommend. Assisting with company accounts and filings, payroll and reporting and accountancy advice, their warm, friendly and approachable style is exactly what we needed to keep things on track and never miss a deadline. I would absolutely recommend them for all of your accountancy needs.
Katie and staff highlight professionalism, responsiveness, and their ability to make complex financial matters easy to understand. Thank you
Excellant service, helpful staff would recommend. My experience with Vaughans is as freelance self employed worker and they have helped me understand the system and to prepare and provide what is needed in a timely manner.
I was recommended to Katie Bladen at Vaughans accountancy and have been very pleased with the service and cost. Katie takes time to explain the procedures and expands on details as required. She is easy to communicate with and responds to queries quickly and efficiently
Vaughans provide me with a very reliable service. In addition they have been there for me for a number of specialist (as far as I am concerned as one who runs a very small business) issues including late presentation of accounts due to death in the family and inheritance issues. I am a very happy client - Jim.
Hi. Vaughans Accountancy are very professional and offer a no nonsense prompt service. Thanks for all your help. God bless Dave
Katie has been my accountant for a number of years and has always provided an efficient and friendly service. Some years I even get a tax refund :-).
We have worked with Katie and the team at BDHC and now Vaughans for many years for both personal and corporate accounts. Always available, always friendly and willing. Always willing to provide responses to out of scope questions. Customer service at its best. Couldn't recommend them more highly.
Katie has been our accountant for both business and personal matters for many years, and we've been consistently impressed with her work. She's highly professional and diligent, and we appreciate her straightforward, no-nonsense approach. We value her expertise and consider her an essential part of our financial well-being
