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A North Shields based, cloud accountancy firm with national clients, has taken home a prestigious award at this year’s Accounting Excellence Awards.
Blu Sky, were awarded Medium Firm of The Year, for outstanding work with clients, along with their expertise and dedication over the last year.
The firm has won over 10 awards in total, including two at this Year’s North East Accounting Awards, Rising Star Tax Adviser and Accountancy Firm of The Year under 50 employees.
Judges were impressed by the team’s dedication to enhancing and developing new services that give added value to new and existing clients. Alongside ongoing internal efforts to enhance culture and staff development opportunities.
Blu Sky are a Xero platinum partner and support clients to save time and money by using the latest financial tech. The firm goes above and beyond to cater for day to day accounting needs through to strategic support and advice. Other specialist areas include preparing for investment, tech scale-ups and research and development tax credit claims.
Blu Sky co-founder, Jon Dudgeon, said: “To be recognised for the work we’ve done is incredibly humbling. We’ve been very focused on enhancing the services we offer to clients, as well as internal progression and team building.
“Everyone in our team has contributed to, and engaged with, their career progression plans, and helped shape our business culture and values which has been incredible to experience.
“We want to continue doing what we’ve always done, to help businesses look ahead. Even more so after the huge changes and challenges companies have faced in recent years. There are many challenges still to come, so acting as a sounding board for our clients is more important than ever.”
Co-founder, Dave Gibson, added: “Over the last year, we’ve navigated life after lockdowns, got back to in-person events, and most importantly, worked incredibly hard to enhance the services we offer to our clients.
“Our focus is to look ahead, whether that be through gaining funding, creating forecasts, planning for business expansion, or even exit. All of this is possible using the latest financial tech to offer insights that help informed decision making, along with saving time and money.”
Blu Sky were also 2022 finalists for Xero’s Mid-Sized firm of the Year award, having previously won in 2018.
To find out more about Blu Sky, visit: www.blusky.co.uk.
