Quantum Chartered Accountants Ltd is a small, friendly team of professional accounting and taxation specialists based on Sir William Pickering Drive in Burnside, Christchurch. The practice offers a diverse range of services — from financial report preparation, tax returns and GST returns to family trusts, company accounting, rental properties, farm accounting, succession and estate planning, and small business accounting — tailored to each client's individual needs.
The firm's roots reach back to the 1900s, and it has operated under several names over the decades, most recently changing from Sothertons Chartered Accountants to Quantum Chartered Accountants in 2011. Its client relationships run remarkably deep: one client has been with the practice since 1914. Quantum's commitment is to provide excellent workmanship and advice at an affordable price, whatever stage of life or business a client is at.
The team works with a huge variety of clients, including small to medium sized business operators, family trusts, farmers, property investors, retailers and high wealth individuals. Directors Vicky Thornley and David Studholme, both accountants (CPP), lead the practice alongside accountant Kyra Guckert.
The firm's website also offers a full range of free, easy-to-use online resources — calculators, Tax Facts, Key Dates and internet links — to help clients keep across important deadlines and tax requirements between visits.
Quantum Chartered Accountants Ltd operates from Unit 4, 27 Sir William Pickering Drive in Burnside, Christchurch, where a small, friendly team of professional accounting and taxation specialists looks after a wonderfully varied client base. The practice offers wide-ranging expertise in business, taxation, investment planning, farming and wealth creation, and enjoys working with all sorts of clients — from small and medium sized business operators to family trusts, farmers and property investors. Whatever the requirement, the approach is the same: work with you to find a solution tailored to your individual needs.
Not many Christchurch accounting firms can match Quantum's pedigree. The practice can trace its roots back to the 1900s and has operated under several names over the decades, most recently changing from Sothertons Chartered Accountants in 2011. Its staying power shows in the loyalty of its clients, too — the firm counts one client who has been with it since 1914, a relationship spanning more than a hundred years.
That long view underpins the commitment Quantum makes to every client today: excellent workmanship and advice at an affordable price, and genuine support with your financial goals whatever stage of life or business you are at.
Quantum offers a diverse range of specialist accounting and financial services. On the compliance side, the team prepares financial reports, tax returns and GST returns. Businesses are well catered for through small business accounting and services for companies, while property investors have dedicated support for rental properties. Rural clients are covered by farm accounting, and the practice also advises on family trusts and on succession and estate planning — the longer-horizon decisions that shape a family's or a business's future.
The common thread across all of it is tailoring. Rather than a one-size-fits-all template, the team works with each client individually to provide services suited to their particular situation.
The firm is led by directors Vicky Thornley and David Studholme, both accountants (CPP). Vicky joined the practice in 1997 as a senior accountant and practice manager, having previously worked for a chartered accountancy practice in Timaru and spent several years at a provincial newspaper. She became a director when the firm took the Quantum name in 2011, and brings more than 25 years of accountancy experience to clients ranging from small and medium sized businesses and family trusts to property investors, high wealth individuals, farmers and retailers. Kyra Guckert completes the team as an accountant.
It is a deliberately compact team, which keeps the service personal and the advice consistent from one year to the next.
Quantum's website doubles as a resource hub, offering what the firm describes as a full range of free, easy-to-use online resources. The Key Dates section keeps clients across important deadlines, Tax Facts provides quick reference on tax requirements, and calculators and internet links help you work things out between visits. The aim, in the firm's own words, is to make better use of your time and keep you up to date on matters affecting your business and family life — or, put more simply, to let the team take care of the hard stuff.
Quantum Chartered Accountants welcomes enquiries by phone on 03-366 6955 or by email at [email protected]. The office is at Unit 4, 27 Sir William Pickering Drive, Burnside, Christchurch. Whether you are setting up a small business, managing a family trust, running a farm or building a property portfolio, the team invites you to get in touch and find the solution that fits.