History
2004
Our new website was launched.
We joined BKR International as an independent member firm, giving our clients access to business, financial and tax advice around the world.
2001
We established our
Corporate Finance Department to combine our existing transactions support and due diligence services with the specialist skills brought to the firm by a new corporate finance team who joined us from another firm.
2000
Our Financial Services Partner, Steven Greenwood, was Investment Adviser’s “Investment IFA of the Year”.
1999
In 1999 we became Sage TM authorised resellers and formed our Sage Department.
We changed our name from Casson Beckman to Cassons, balancing continuity with a statement of our individual identity as an independent North West firm.
1997
We achieved the Investors in People standard.
The London office of Casson Beckman merged with a larger national firm. We recognised that our strength lay with our client base of owner-managed businesses and professional firms and we chose to remain an independent regional firm. The national network broke up.
Some of the other Casson Beckman offices retained that name. The insolvency firm Casson Beckman & Partners became an independent firm, still separate from us, but still in the same building. It set up Casson Beckman Corporate Finance, but later closed that operation. (In 2002 Casson Beckman & Partners went out of business.)
1995
In the mid-1990s Casson Beckman took over Halpern & Woolf, a national network of accounting firms. The merged network practised as Casson Beckman. The three Halpern & Woolf offices in the North West did not join the new network. Instead, in 1995, J B Lever & Co became the North West arm of Casson Beckman, adopting Casson Beckman as its new name. The network was a loose structure and all the member firms remained legally separate.
Cassons Beckman, London, took over control of an insolvency firm, which became Casson Beckman & Partners. The Manchester office of that firm moved into the same building as our Manchester office. We had a working relationship with that firm, but we always remained separate firms.
We formed our Bar Department to streamline the service to our many barrister and judge clients.
1994
Our Forensic Accounting Department was established, offering litigation support and expert witness services across all legal disciplines.
1988
We founded our Financial Services Department, specialising in financial planning and portfolio management, pensions, life assurance and mortgages.
1987
J B Lever & Co formed an association with Casson Beckman, a major firm of London accountants.
1986
The firm took its present shape in 1986 with the merger of three firms:
- J B Lever & Co, with offices in Burnley and Manchester
- Mann Judd Downey, in Burnley
- Bowman Dawes & Co., in Manchester
Through these firms Cassons can trace its origins to early in the 20th century. The combined firm practised as J B Lever & Co.
J B Lever & Co provided the core services of accounts preparation and audit, tax compliance, payroll and company secretarial services, but it combined these with an active business advisory role, strong tax planning, transactions support and due diligence work.
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