Straightforward audits for growing companies
A senior partner who knows your business and picks up the phone. A fixed fee agreed before the work starts. The same team next year.
Every Straight Audit is carried out and signed by Anstey Bond LLP, registered auditor C002766607.
Sound familiar?
- We've grown, and now we need an audit.Your first audit →
- Our accountant says they can't do audits.When your accountant can't audit →
- Our auditor is retiring, or giving up audit work.Moving from a retiring auditor →
- Our fees keep going up and we never see the partner.Changing auditor →
- We're with a big firm and it isn't working for us.Straight Audit or a big firm? →
- Our parent company is overseas and needs a UK audit.Groups and overseas parents →
- We're a charity and the rules have changed.Charities →
- We're not sure we need an audit at all.Do we need an audit? →
How your audit runs
The same shape every year, so you always know what's coming next.
- A list of what we need, well before the work starts
Weeks ahead, so your team can pull it together around the day job.
- A planning meeting with your partner
What's changed in the business, where the risks are, and the dates.
- Early warning
If an issue comes up during the audit, you get a written note about it straight away.
- Close-down meetings
One with your finance team and one with the directors, before anything is signed.
- A note of improvements
Afterwards, what would make next year quicker and smoother for you.
Why not a Big Four or national firm?
They're built around the largest audits. The Big Four took 98% of FTSE 350 audit fees in 2024, and they've been reducing their smaller audits.
See the full comparison- Your partner, by nameNamed before you appoint us, at the planning and close-down meetings, and on the end of the phone.
- A fixed fee in writingAny change agreed with you in writing before the extra work is done.
- The same team next yearThe people who learned your business this year come back next year.
- The same standardsSigned by Anstey Bond LLP, a registered auditor approved to audit public interest entities.
Who signs your audit
Straight Audit audits are carried out and signed by Anstey Bond LLP, a firm of chartered accountants with offices in London and Guildford.
Sources: Register of Statutory Auditors · Anstey Bond transparency report 2026
- Registered auditor
- Registered with the ICAEW to carry out audit work in the UK, reference C002766607
- Listed companies
- Approved as a registered auditor of public interest entities in January 2023
- Partners
- Five, led by managing partner Colin Ellis
- Accounts
- UK GAAP (FRS 102) and IFRS
- Quality checks
- Independent reviewers check public company files before they're signed, and review private company files afterwards
audit firms gave up their audit registration in 2024. If your accountant or auditor has stopped doing audits, you're far from the only one.
Source: FRC, Key Facts and Trends 2025turnover is the new line for the small company audit exemption, for years starting on or after 6 April 2025. Grow past it, along with £7.5m of assets or 50 staff, and an audit usually follows.
Source: GOV.UKTell us what's going on
A few lines is plenty. We'll come back to you, usually with a couple of questions, and arrange a call with the partner who would run your audit.
- You speak to your partner before you decide anything.
- The fee is agreed in writing before any work starts.