Les Bury, a partner of chartered accountants and business advisors Beever and Struthers, has been appointed deputy President of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants.
Les became a partner in the firm when Manchester-based Beever and Struthers merged with Blackburn based chartered accountants Waterworths in October 2009.
Prior to that in 2001, he purchased the Blackburn office of HLB Kidsons where he was managing partner and following its merger with Waterworths became a partner in that firm.
Before joining HLB Kidsons he was a partner in Bury Brothers which he joined when he left what was then Price Waterhouse.
Les specialises in providing business advisory services, strategic planning, advice relating to acquisitions and disposals, and is an acknowledged specialist in the setting up and use of trusts and the provision of tax advice.
He is a past chairman of the Lancashire Branch of the Institute of Directors, Round Table and Accrington Ex-Tablers Club. He is also treasurer of Clitheroe Golf Club.
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Notes to editors:
Beever and Struthers is a UK Top 50 accountancy and business advisory firm with offices in Manchester, Blackburn and London and the largest independent practice in Greater Manchester. The firm recently merged with Waterworths, an accountancy firm in Blackburn.
The enlarged firm has 26 partners and more than 150 staff providing a full service offering in areas including accountancy, audit, tax, corporate finance, fraud, grants consultancy, financial services and business assurance.
It specialises in sectors such as social housing (is currently a Top 4 provider of audit and assurance services in the UK to housing associations), charity, not for profit and sport.
