Boyd, who graduated from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, already has a portfolio of clients on the west coast of Scotland, ranging as far north as Oban, and predicts his new move will see current turnover of £500,000 increased by £250,000 within 12 to 18 months of launch. He employs 12 people in Belfast and expects that number to be matched in the Glasgow office within a few years.

At the moment, some 60% of his business is in Ireland, both north and south, and the rest is divided equally between Scotland and England. He believes that, having set up the firm in 2009 during the toughest part of the recession in Northern Ireland, it is well equipped to bring a new kind of accountancy offering to Scotland. 

Boyd said: ‘A lot of accountancy firms in Scotland are have been around for many years and are still adapting to modern, business led advice and technologically up-to-date practices.

‘We aim to give clients a modern, informed, service backed by the latest advances in technology and there is room in the margin created by the Scottish market to allow us to do that while still competing on quality.

‘We already deal with Top 500 enterprises in Scotland on a project basis providing a range of specialist transaction services, but SMEs are the ones who have been most impacted hit by changes to audit and changes to technology and we are offering them a bundled service that makes the clients lives easier enabling them to gain increased profits.’

Report by Pat Sweet