vxpartners provides a significant cost-saving to businesses whe they outsource their accounting function. The managing director expects her staff to grow from 16 to over 100 in the next two years. While they do not do tax, preferring their clients to use the services of a tax accountant, she says that the reports they prepare for the tax accountant are much more user friendly. She likes to recruit undergraduates offering them part-time work while they are studying. No specific encouragement is given for them to remain with the firm for the long term but she says that they like people to saty until the end of their chartered accounting year and then she expects that many will leave and go to work for a big firm. Her aim is to target the individual staff member's needs, keping them happy.

From BRW Oct 6-12, 2005, pg 70