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Accountants for Chester businesses
Chartered. Local. ICAEW-regulated.
Opus is a Chester-based chartered accountancy firm.
Founded in the city. Working with Chester businesses every day. The office is at Bretton House in Pulford — CH4, just outside the city walls. From there we serve clients across Chester, the wider CH catchment, north Wales and along the M56 into Frodsham and Warrington.
About the firm
Renee Shepherd is an ICAEW chartered accountant. That matters more than it sounds like it should. There are plenty of competent accountants in Chester — far fewer chartered firms. The difference shows up in the things you only notice when something has gone wrong: regulated practice, mandatory CPD, professional indemnity at the level larger clients expect, technical work that holds up under HMRC scrutiny.
If a job goes to court, an HMRC tribunal or a due diligence room, you want a chartered firm behind it.
The Chester businesses we work with
Independent companies across the city and the wider catchment. Some examples of the kinds of clients on our books:
- Owner-managed businesses around Chester Business Park and Sealand Road
- Hospitality operators in the centre, around the Rows and out towards Hoole
- Construction firms working CIS across north Wales and the north-west
- Professional services firms — solicitors, architects, consultancies
- Family businesses in the wider CH catchment, often second or third generation
- Retailers and wholesalers, increasingly with cross-border complications post-Brexit
What most of them have in common is straightforward: they don't want to be a billing line at a national firm, and they don't want a high-street outfit that can't do the technical work when it matters. Renee is ICAEW chartered, which puts the firm in a particular category of UK accountancy. That distinction is most of why people choose us.
What we do for Chester clients
Everything you'd expect from a chartered firm, and none of the things you wouldn't.
Accounting and Compliance from £275/month. Statutory accounts. Corporation tax returns. VAT under MTD. Payroll. CIS. Self-assessment for directors. Director-level advisory where it's needed — tax planning, cash-flow modelling, structure reviews, succession.
We do R&D claims for clients who genuinely qualify (and tell people who don't, because most of the firms aggressively selling R&D are about to find out HMRC's view of weak claims). We handle cross-border VAT and corporation tax. We write management accounts you'll actually read.
What we don't do: financial advice, mortgages, regulated investments, audit. We refer those out to people we trust.
For larger or growth-stage businesses, our Opus Counsel — On-Demand Finance Director service is the next step up.
Visit the office
Most months you won't need to. The work happens through Xero, email and the phone. When a face-to-face meeting genuinely helps — a year-end signing, a board review, a tricky onboarding — we'll either host you at the office or come to you, whichever makes the day easier.
Bretton HouseBell Meadow Business Park
Pulford
Chester CH4 9EP
Phone: 01244 44 55 99 · Email: [email protected]
If you're a Chester business looking for a chartered accountant — or thinking about moving from one that's stopped feeling like the right fit — book a conversation.