Education Sector Accountancy Services

We offer a fully comprehensive accountancy service to a wide range of educational organisations in Scotland, including independent schools, universities and their subsidiaries, colleges and student representative bodies. Offices in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

We provide external and internal audit, grant and assurance work, as well as tax advice, helping our clients to tackle their challenges and gain peace of mind over regulatory compliance.

We understand the highly regulated environment of independent schools and work closely with our clients across Scotland to provide them with all the support they need to meet their regulatory requirements.

Government funding and fees is a key issue for Universities and their related activities in subsidiaries and student bodies. Furthermore, the college sector is currently going through an unprecedented period of change as the Scottish Government’s merger programme continues.

Many of these organisations face financial challenges and are attempting to diversify funding in order to move away from current models, thereby allowing further ‘self sustainability’ and less reliance of former funding sources.

Funding, however, will generally remain an issue, as will the academic challenges from overseas, notably the Far East. Many institutions have already identified this issue and, in response, have started to set up campuses overseas. By providing support and insight from experience and by connecting clients to advisers with the right skills and experience to meet their needs – in the UK and overseas – we support our clients via our UK and international network of accountancy and professional advisers.

Accounting, Audit & Tax Advice for the Education Sector

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Meet our Education Team

Alan Davis

Alan Davis

Partner & Head of VAT

I am a Partner at Henderson Loggie and lead our award-winning VAT team. I cover all four offices providing specialist advice on technical VAT compliance and advisory, training and development. Having spent 16 years with…
Diana Penny

Diana Penny

Partner & Head of Audit

I am Head of Audit at Henderson Loggie, providing audit services to a variety of clients ranging from owner-managed businesses to large multi-national groups. I also work with a number of clients in the not-for-profit…
Keith Macpherson

Keith Macpherson

Partner

My main interest is in working with charities, universities and not-for-profit organisations, principally through the delivery of audit and assurance services. I joined Henderson Loggie in April 2022 with a focus on cementing our position…
David Archibald

David Archibald

Partner

I head up our public sector and internal audit team. I have over 25 years of audit and performance improvement experience, which is complimented by my experience in risk management, fraud prevention and programme management….
David Taylor

David Taylor

Partner

I lead our dedicated Grants Department and have over 30 years grant, audit, and accounts experience spanning universities, colleges, public sector bodies, charities, and commercial entities. I have worked with a range of clients in…