Andrew Band (Accountants March)

Having been raised in March, Andrew returned to his home town after graduating from De Montfort University, Leicester, in 1994. Training with the firm in their March office, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1998 and he is now a resident partner. Andrew has developed a diverse portfolio of clients, although his area of expertise is primarily in dealing with owner managed businesses. Andrew also advises many of our agri related clients, including not only farming businesses but some larger businesses in the agriculture supply chain, due him being an audit partner in the firm. Andrew has a young family but also manages to spend some time pursuing interests outside of work and enjoys spending time in the countryside.
My Latest Blogs
27th March 2017 Whitings’ Annual Farming Seminar

Invitation: Prospects for UK Agriculture. Once again agriculture is facing many changes and challenges. In order for us all to try and understand the many factors affecting us we have again engaged Andersons, the Farm Business Consultants, to present to us their “Prospects for UK Agriculture” Seminar, on Wednesday 26 April 2017. We are pleased,…

4th October 2016 Post BREXIT Exchange Rates

BREXIT: Initially a silver lining for farmers? Since the BREXIT vote the value of Sterling has weakened, such that the average exchange rate for the Basic Payment Scheme has been set at €1 : £0.85228. For those farm enterprises electing to receive this in Sterling, this is some 16% better than last year. Given the…

18th April 2016 Future for Agriculture

Whitings’ 5th Annual  Agri-Seminar: “No” to Brexit We have just held our 5th annual Prospects for UK Agriculture seminar. Once again our guest speakers from Andersons expertly presented the current topics impacting on UK farming businesses. It was great to also have as many guests join us to listen to what the speakers had to…

26th August 2015 Centre of Excellence

Fenland Office: Plans announced to create ‘Centre of Excellence’. We are pleased to announce plans to create a newly constructed super-office on the southern edge of March. This will enable us to create, under one roof, the teams of specialist advisers that modern day clients require to service their compliance, out-sourcing and advisory requirements. Blog…

6th February 2012 Accounts Preparation

Accounts preparation, for internal and external reporting purposes, is our core disclipline. This process can begin from bringing in a bag of invoices and bank statements, or granting us access to a fully reconciled cloud hosted computerised book-keeping data set, or anywhere in between. Although the primary aim of statutory accounts is to report the…