About Abacus Partners
Decades of hands-on HMRC experience, brought to East London's small businesses and freelancers.
Nur Ahmed Chowdhury, FCCA
Founder & Senior Chartered Accountant
Nur Ahmed Chowdhury is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and an experienced audit and tax professional with over 25 years of experience in public practice.
As the firm's Responsible Individual (RI), Nur has extensive experience in statutory audit, corporate and personal taxation, financial reporting and regulatory matters. He has acted for a broad range of businesses and organisations, providing practical, commercially focused advice to owner-managed businesses, companies, charities and other organisations.
Nur has particular expertise in corporate audits, corporation tax, HMRC enquiries and investigations, VAT and PAYE matters. His approach combines strong technical knowledge with a hands-on understanding of the challenges faced by business owners and management teams.
Iqbal Chowdhury, FCCA
Partner
Iqbal graduated from the London School of Economics in 2006. Thereafter his first job was in the audit department at PKF Littlejohn, where a broad range of experiences gave him exposure to both FCA and charity sector compliance. His commercial and management accounting experience varies across manufacturing, retail, and wholesale industries. He has also worked as an analyst for the EMEA Equity Derivatives trading floor, at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
In his current practice, he focuses on delivering both statutory and specialised audits.
Tim Curran
Financial Crime, Safeguarding and Compliance Advisory
Tim is a highly experienced Financial Crime and AML professional with a career spanning more than four decades across UK law enforcement, HM Customs & Excise (now HMRC), NCIS (now the NCA), and major international financial institutions.
His extensive experience includes AML/CFT, sanctions, safeguarding, fraud, financial intelligence, investigations, regulatory liaison, SARs, transaction monitoring and law-enforcement engagement, making him particularly well positioned to support organisations dealing with HMRC, NCA and FCA financial crime requirements.
What We Believe
Plain-English advice
No jargon left unexplained. If you don't understand something, we haven't finished explaining it.
Tailored to you
A sole trader and a limited company need different things. We build a plan around your business, not a template.
Available when it matters
You can reach your accountant directly, especially in the run-up to a deadline.
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