About us
About us
Our vision
We believe the only way to create exciting, entrepreneurial futures is to accept and face up to change as part of life. Work with MacIntyre Hudson and you'll have the benefit of the technical skills and expertise you would expect from chartered accountants combined with the commercial sense of business advisers to support you on your journey.
Like you, a lot of our time is spent dealing with the present, and clearing space to deal with the future takes a focused effort. So when we say: The future is what you make it, we are doing two things.
Firstly, we are challenging ourselves to be a confident, proactive organisation with a relationship with our clients that works like this: you are in control of your own affairs, but we are on hand to offer support and guidance.
Secondly, we are putting out a clear signal that we have brought our services closer to you, and restructured them to bring real value to your business.
MacIntyre Hudson not only offers a full range of services, our firm wide industry teams are committed to stay on top of what is happening in the market place to give you the best possible advice. They are industry experts who understand the dynamics of each sector well, who know the challenges you face and can see the bigger picture.
To do a good job we not only need to understand your business inside out, we want to know what makes you tick - what keeps you awake at night, what gives you a kick, even your personal aspirations. We'll then probe, comment, confront you with new ideas, propose changes, and sometimes recommend that you leave things as they are - as long as it is an informed choice. We earn your trust by achievements and results, and we want to turn that trust into a long-lasting, genuine and professional relationship.
But in the final analysis, it comes down to one of us face to face with you. You get to know and see the same Principal and team each year, providing essential continuity and allowing us to develop a deeper understanding of your business year on year. MacIntyre Hudson’s Principals also provide you with a gateway to our local and firm-wide expertise and international support when you need it.
Our history
The firm was founded in 1880 and was one of the 587 firms that joined together to form the original 'Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales'. Robert Hamilton MacIntyre and John Farrer Hudson became partners in the firm in the 1920's - their photographs remain in our archives.
As is common in our profession, we have opened offices, closed offices, merged and demerged many times since then. We even opened a Paris office in 1928 which remained until the sixties, when legislation made it no longer viable. Our most recent mergers were in 1998 with the nine partner practice, Hughes Allen, which re-established the name of MacIntyre Hudson in the City of London and brought us an office in Chelmsford, in 2007 when our Leicester office merged with Moore Stephens Leicester, doubling the firm’s business in the area, and most recently in London where our City office merged with the London office of MGI Midgley Snelling.
Since we were founded, we have worked with clients in almost all industry sectors, from cheese-cutter manufacturing to broadband broadcasting and transatlantic sailing. But most have one thing in common: they are owner-managed and entrepreneurial businesses like us.
Our structure
To support you MacIntyre Hudson has 52 Principals and 380 staff in nine offices in London and the South East, and across East Anglia and the Midlands, servicing the whole country. For clients that wish to venture overseas we have extended our service levels internationally via our membership of CPA Associates International Inc – a global association of independent accountancy and business advisory firms. We are also supported by other businesses in the MacIntyre Hudson Group.
MacIntyre Advisory Services Ltd
A business that grew out of our professional training department and set up as a separate company several years ago, it provides award winning training to the legal profession and technical services to other firms of accountants and the legal profession. It is also a major supplier of training to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. MAS is in charge of our own training making sure we keep up to date with legislative changes and ahead of the game.
MacIntyre Hudson Corporate Finance Ltd
Formed more recently, when a change in legislation required the investment-related aspects of this type of work to be separately authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Our Corporate Finance lead advisory team have extensive experience of acquisitions, disposals, MBOs and MBIs, raising finance, flotations, due diligence and valuations.
In addition we have links with:
CPA Associates International Inc
Our service levels are seamlessly extended overseas by our membership of CPA – a global association of independent professional accountancy and business advisory firms with members in most major cities in the US, South America, Africa, Australasia, Middle East, the Pacific Rim and Europe
Carrwood Maclntyre Ltd
Is an advisory firm, authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Through this association their Independent Financial Advisers offer support to our corporate clients and high net worth individuals, from advising on bonus schemes and effective employee benefits packages to wealth management and bespoke pension services.
