Top 10 advice needs
Tax planning advice - general (Personal Advice)
Self assessment advice (Personal Advice)
Accounts preparation (Business advice)
General business tax advice (Business advice)
Pension arrangements (Personal Advice)
Company formation (Business advice)
Bookkeeping (Business advice)
Inheritance (Personal Advice)
Expatriate (Personal Advice)
Payroll services and advice (Business advice)
| Accountant selection criteria | Jun-11 | Jul-11 | Aug-11 | Sep-11 | Oct-11 | Nov-11 | Dec-11 | Jan-12 | Feb-12 | Mar-12 | Apr-12 | Average** |
| Tax planning advice - general (Personal Advice) | 3% | 58% | 34% | 38% | 26% | 25% | 65% | 39% | 48% | 44% | 53% | 39% |
| Self assessment advice (Personal Advice) | 15% | 13% | 26% | 36% | 5% | 21% | 43% | 36% | 39% | 20% | 51% | 28% |
| Accounts preparation (Business advice) | 33% | 24% | 25% | 17% | 11% | 37% | 22% | 20% | 14% | 10% | 5% | 20% |
| General business tax advice (Business advice) | 3% | 24% | 12% | 10% | 11% | 10% | 17% | 23% | 20% | 10% | 6% | 13% |
| Pension arrangements (Personal Advice) | 6% | 21% | 16% | 6% | 5% | 8% | 17% | 6% | 19% | 9% | 16% | 12% |
| Company formation (Business advice) | 0% | 8% | 5% | 11% | 26% | 13% | 0% | 11% | 15% | 15% | 7% | 10% |
| Bookkeeping (Business advice) | 9% | 0% | 9% | 11% | 16% | 15% | 0% | 6% | 11% | 8% | 2% | 8% |
| Inheritance (Personal Advice) | 15% | 16% | 9% | 4% | 0% | 2% | 13% | 8% | 9% | 7% | 12% | 9% |
| Expatriate (Personal Advice) | 9% | 0% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 35% | 3% | 6% | 13% | 12% | 8% |
| Payroll services and advice (Business advice) | 6% | 13% | 3% | 13% | 11% | 6% | 0% | 8% | 2% | 3% | 2% | 6% |
* Launch of Unbiased.co.uk, the professional advice website's portal. From February 2009 consumers visiting Unbiased.co.uk have had the choice to find a mortgage IFA through the 'find an IFA' search and find a whole market mortgage adviser through the 'find a mortgage adviser' search. To view the 'find a mortgage adviser' advice drivers please click the following link: 'find a mortgage adviser' advice drivers.
** Average percentage is based on statistics since December 2006.
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