Julie and her husband, David, moved from Sheffield to Oxford when David was offered a job at Oxford Brookes.

Julie and her husband, David, moved from Sheffield to Oxford when David was offered a job at Oxford Brookes. “I decided to go to university to study Business & Accounting and Statistics. I achieved a 1st Class Honours Degree and was awarded a prize for coming top of the year in statistics.” Julie continued her studies and was awarded CIMA Higher Diploma whilst working for The Orders of St John Care Trust.

“Today I am all set up to begin my new adventure and I am looking forward to working with Rosemary and being very busy with bookkeeping.”

How Julie got involved with Rosemary Bookkeeping

“I began looking for a change of career in the summer of 2011, with the unstable environment at work and in terms of restructuring and threat of redundancies it was a good time for change.

“I was very keen to run my own business but wanted the security in terms of the support and having work colleagues to discuss any problems and feel part of a team, so the franchise business was ideal for my needs. The Rosemary Bookkeeping website attracted me whilst I was searching the British Franchise Association website. It portrayed a friendly and professional way of running your own business with help and support both technically and with marketing the business. I visited the Franchise Exhibition in Birmingham and met the Rosemary team as well as another franchise partner.”

Julie’s secrets to success…

“I aim to offer friendly, personal and efficient service to my clients and be available for any queries they may have. Over the next year, I plan to grow the business and hopefully either employ or subcontract some work in order to maximise turnover and build a successful business.”

What Joanna Dennis, Franchise Development Director of Rosemary Bookkeeping says:
“Highly experienced and totally proficient, Julie intelligently processes the bookkeeping work and always ensures that the reports she prepares are useful, add value and make sense.”

About Rosemary Bookkeeping

Rosemary Bookkeeping is a British Franchise Association accredited franchise, based on a successful business which was established in 2002 and offers a unique bookkeeping system which is built around charging clients per transaction rather than per hour.

The Founding Partners have over 60 years of business and bookkeeping experience between them in the essential business disciplines of accounting, operations, sales and marketing.

According to the Federation of Small Businesses, over 4 million customers NEED this service. By law, all businesses in the UK are required to keep records of their transactions which later are used by an accountant to file for tax and often VAT. Managing these transactions through bookkeeping is often the biggest headache to the small business owner and a task that is left at the bottom of the pile.

There is a growing network of established Franchise Partners in the UK either running their franchise as a management business with bookkeepers undertaking the work for them or working on client accounts themselves.