About Us
 Dedicated to delivering a first class client service
Our Practice is well established acquiring the original Carmarthen Office in 1976. Our portfolio of clients has increased significantly in almost 30 years from predominately farming and retail clients to the wide spectrum of trade and professions currently serviced.
We rebranded following a demerger in 2004 clearly identifying that our client’s needs were best serviced by a local, personal and professional team of Accountants.
At Clay Shaw Butler we continue to build on our enviable reputation for providing excellent advice and first class service to our business and personal clients alike. We have many clients in the local community and service businesses, small and large, across many sectors including:
- Agriculture
- The Professions
- The Service Sector
- The Construction Industry
- Manufacturers
- Retailers
As well as general accountancy, audit and tax skills, our qualified and experienced staff have individual specialist skills which enable us to provide clients with a first class service as and when required. With our wealth of experience we pride ourselves on delivering an unparalleled service to all clients, what ever their size or sector.
In addition to traditional auditing, accounting and tax services we also provide advice on how to improve and develop your business. Whether you need an integrated business strategy, access to corporate finance or specialist tax advice we are here to help you achieve your goals.
We have a team of 21 professional staff who are encouraged at every opportunity to develop their full potential. We have received recognition of this in achieving the Investors in People Award in 2005.
Our staff are fully conversant with most accounting software packages and in particular we are full Sage Business Partners and have specialists who can assist all clients in providing support and with training needs.
Our team is made up of Qualified Chartered Accountants, Chartered Certified Accountants, Chartered Tax Advisors, experienced senior staff, Accounting Technicians, Trainee Accountants and a priceless administrative support team.
David Butler BSc. (Hons) FCA
David Butler is the leading Principal of the firm and has 25 years experience in general practice and tax. David attended Aston University in Birmingham achieving an Honours Degree in Administrative Science in 1978. He later undertook Articles with Singer & Partners and moved to Carmarthen in 1981 when he qualified as a Chartered Accountant becoming a Fellow Chartered Accountant in 1991.
He believes strongly in providing a personal service to clients of the Practice and more importantly the need for progress thus engaging newly qualified staff and focused Chartered and Chartered Certified students. He deals with a variety of clients providing a full accountancy and taxation service with his team at Clay Shaw Butler.
Chris Rees FCCA
Christine Rees is our leading Consultant and qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in October 1989, later becoming a Fellow of the Association in October 1994. Chris spent some time in Canada and has followed a varied career with experience fields of accountancy as well as computer programming. This background provides valuable concept in assisting a wide range of clients and also has helped her to progress the Practice by upgrading our IT systems and becoming a product specialist with Sage. Chris deals with a varied portfolio of clients from small/medium sized sole traders and partnerships through to large incorporated companies and group structures advising in a wide range of accountancy planning and tax issues.
“My objective has and always will be to provide all Clay Shaw Butler clients with a full personal accountancy, taxation and business advising service. I am pleased with the increasing number of clients and also non clients who attend our Sage Training Courses”
Ann Thomas FMAAT, ACCA
Ann qualified as an Accounts Technician in 1998 and joined us in November 2001, she is now becoming our senior manager. Her experience includes working for five years with a large accountancy Practice in the South of England. She qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant in June 2003. Whilst she plans the work for our team and supervises and coordinates a client portfolio, her particular forte is dealing with larger businesses and Management accounts, attending clients premises on a regular basis to aid their decision making. Her strengths include training staff and clients for Sage products and preparing business plans.
“I wish to continue to develop the Practice of Clay Shaw Butler to provide an excellent service to all our clients and to attract as many new ones as I can, such that I can progress even further with the firm.”
Caroline Gibbons MATT, CTA
Caroline joined the Practice in 1996 from an equestrian background qualifying as A.I. being a competent horse woman in many disciplines. She immediately joined our Tax Department and very quickly gained the qualification of a Tax Technician. Despite the pressures of dealing with Tax Returns for a large portfolio of clients and looking after her horses, she remained focused to qualify as a Chartered Taxation Advisor in January 2005.
Sarah Wynne MAAT, ACA
Sarah joined us in October 2001 and was our first student to fast track within two years from an Accounts Technician to passing her final examinations of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
She is developing a client portfolio as a Client Relationship Accountant. Working closely with a Banking and Finance Consultant she prepares business plans, cash flows and with a team of staff provides a full accountancy and consultancy service to clients. Sarah has an all round knowledge of SME business, Information Technology, VAT and Sage software and relishes a challenge.
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