ADDING UP THE YEARS
Two gems from the Grantham branch of Duncan and Toplis -– Managing Partner Peter Townsend and Barbara Armstrong – have received ruby and gold pin badges to celebrate 40 years with the firm.
The East Midlands based firm of chartered accountants marked the milestone by taking both to Crown Hotel in Stamford for a celebratory lunch along with two other firm colleagues celebrating the same milestone - Catherine Smith based at the Spalding office and Dennis Lowe from the Melton Mowbray office.
Duncan and Toplis Deputy Managing Partner Adrian Reynolds said he was delighted to be celebrating these achievements.
“The firm prides itself on maintaining colleague satisfaction, and the fact that we have four colleagues who have grown with the firm during the past four decades is testament to our success in this area,” he said.
Peter Townsend said he had seen many changes since starting with the firm, when there were few staff and no computers. Dennis Lowe also said one of the biggest changes was the introduction of computers. Barbara Armstrong recalled spending Saturday mornings in the office checking additions.
“The first analysis machine was like an old cash register producing a till roll of totals which were summarised on a manual set of accounts. This was later replaced by a much larger analysis machine which entered details of the accounts on to pre-printed sheets,” she said.
“Additions still had to be checked, but by now though we were lucky enough to have adding machines – cumbersome things that nearly fell off the end of the desk if, like me, you tapped the keys too quickly!”
“Decimalisation was a huge relief (although at the time it seemed to be quite a task to convert the manual ledgers from pounds, shillings and pence to decimal currency) as this now meant that we no longer had to remember it was 12 pence to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound.”
Notes to editors
Duncan & Toplis was established in 1925 and has since grown into one of the largest independent firms of chartered accountants.
The firm has 10 offices throughout the East Midlands: in Grantham, Boston, Lincoln, Louth, Melton Mowbray, Newark, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding and Stamford.
Duncan & Toplis offers a wide range of services to small to large-sized family businesses, from accountancy, audit and tax to payroll, human resources and computer services.
The business employs around 370 staff, of whom 85 are currently engaged in professional training.
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