Carter Backer Winter
Background Summary
Established in 1957, Carter Backer Winter (CBW) is a full-service accountancy firm based in London.
The group comprises 17 partners, as well as a team of over 165 professional and support staff. This makes it “small enough to care about you and your business, but big enough to create opportunities” for its clients.
CBW is led by Peter Winter, managing partner at the company, who supports and advises a number of the firm’s largest clients.
Andy White acts as the group’s chairman, advising national, international, personal, and corporate clients on their strategic affairs. He joined the group via a merger with Gordon Leighton in 2008 as a partner, before being elected as chairman in 2019.
CBW claims to provide a “powerful combination of business and financial insights” that can relate to effective wealth management, business start-ups and scales, investment in assets and innovation, overseas expansion, tax efficiencies, regulatory compliance, and profitable growth.
As a full-service accountancy firm, CBW offers a range of service lines, including audit and accounts, tax, financial planning, corporate recovery and insolvency, corporate finance, research and development, forensic and investigation, outsourcing, and HR consultancy.
The group’s key specialist sectors are split into property, start-ups, regulated businesses, and logistics.
Financials
Carter Backer Winter reported a turnover of £14.94m for the year ended 13 January 2024, which shows a rise of 4.47% year-on-year from the year before.