In these uncertain times, we wanted to reach out to all our clients to provide you with an update.
Cleland & Co is working hard to ensure we can provide our clients with an undisrupted service wherever possible. Please note we have scheduled a remote working test for the full office this Wednesday morning (18th March) between 8 30am and 11 30am.
Outside of this test, our office will currently remain open but we have sought to reduce physical client contact in the following ways:
- We will work from our offices rather than onsite at your premises;
- Where documents can be shared electronically with clients, we will look to do so; and
- We will reduce physical meetings and either postpone them or hold conference calls with you.
We kindly ask that you all consider the necessity to visit our offices. We will arrange contact-free document exchange and will be in touch directly as needs be.
At the moment, it is business as usual and we will continue to complete your accounts, audits and tax returns in a timely manner.
Please find below links to some useful updates recently shared locally:
GFSC – regarding the submission of regulatory returns: https://www.gfsc.gg/news/article/coronavirus-update
States of Guernsey – regarding preparing your business: https://gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=123531&p=0
Finally, here is a quick action plan to help focus your thoughts:
- Keep an eye on Government advice: https://www.gov.gg/coronavirus
- A key priority is to protect the health of yourself, your employees and your customers and then reduce the risk of the financial impact to your business. So you need to take action now.
- Hold a team meeting to inform your employees of how your business will look to get through the next few months; and
- Talk to us – we are all in this together after all. If you and your team are working remotely and/or struggling to keep your records straight then please let us know. We can assist with other tasks, for example if you can scan and email documents to us, we can help in posting them for you.