About

L. Hoppen & Co. (Chartered Certified Accountants) has developed from a multiplicity of disciplines as you will note from the services that we provide in the enclosed literature. We have a number of client service aims:-

A professional service. We have high ideals about our professional work and conduct. This transmits itself through to our clients who benefit from this approach.
A personal service, availability to deal with queries. We do not give much of this responsibility to trainees.
A comprehensive service. Our quality assurance demands that should we spot, or you request that you require extra services, we will be pleased to negotiate a fee for these.
Cross referrals. One of our targets is to help our client's businesses to grow. This is assisted by recommending business of one of our clients to another client who may require the service or product. If our clients expand, then we expand with them.
Informality. We are not aloof. We enjoy good relationships with our clients, but recognise that it is unprofessional to become too friendly.
Ideas. We are a practice brimming with futuristic ideas about how best to help our clients. Watch this space!
Personal:

Laurence Hoppen left school in 1963 and went straight into an accountancy practice. He began his accountancy training as a mature student on reaching the age of 21 and qualified as an ACCA in 1975. Much of the early background was in auditing and he held a Registered Audit certificate for 25 years, before concluding that it was not cost effective for small practices to continue auditing. After returning his audit certificate Mr. Hoppen has held an ACCA Practising Certificate (non-audit).

Mr. Hoppen's Accountancy background includes: Experience of private practice, commerce, industry, the charity sector and the educational sector gives a global range. Client experience has ranged from the small individual to dare we say, royalty. From the small sole trader, to partnerships, and from the limited company to the PLC. His most enjoyable project was while as a Financial Controller of a legal practice and spending 6 months on the computerisation of the practice. This entailed a notable recommendation, whereby a $50-70,000 computer system would provide a guaranteed cost benefit of £150,000 with a potential further saving of £250,000 per year.

In 1994 Laurence obtained a teaching qualification, which was updated and upgraded to a masters degree in 2015, hence the expertise in training and development. The degree entailed preparing a 5,000 document titled “Ethics within Accountancy". A book on Business Ethics is being prepared as is one on V.A.T. for small and medium sized businesses. Since Brexit, the book on V.A.T. is on hold, pending substantial hoped for changes, once Brexit has been completed.

Personal interests include a love of football, with a special interest in football finances