Brief History Chris Smethurst spent 19 years with a leading firm of accountants, Ernst and Young, followed by senior management roles with Begbies Traynor and Kroll (now Zolfo Cooper). He has experience of high achieving businesses and  entrepreneurs as well as those less fortunate struggling with seemingly insurmountable problems.  Chris has been successfully advising small one man businesses and consumers up to multi national corporations for 30+ years. Aside from traditional accounting services, Chris has been involved in hands on trading, several turnaround assignments, multi million pound business sales, bank investigations, and successful substantial litigation cases. Recently Chris has been running Circs, his own lifestyle local business, that concentrates on core accounting and bookkeeping services with friendly knowledge sharing business consultancy. “Whilst experience and knowledge is a great thing, it is nothing if you don’t pass it on, and in so doing honour those who honour you.”