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James Richardson

James worked for KPMG in London, UK, before moving to a commercial role, working in the transaction services and treasury teams for Aviva plc, a financial services company, in the City. James joined Metric in 2012. James specialises in helping our audit clients as well as providing compliance and tax advice.
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What Venture Capital Investors Expect from a UK Startup’s Finance Function and its Management Accounts

20 April 202620 April 2026 by James Richardson

Venture Capital (VC) firms and other sophisticated investors approach startup investment with a fundamentally analytical and risk-adjusted mindset. Their objective is not simply to back … Read more

Categories Blog, Start-ups

Tax Chaos: Developers Not Aware Of Video Games Tax Relief

8 October 202510 September 2014 by James Richardson

8 out of 10 Developers unaware of this recently introduced tax break You may have seen some of today’s press coverage of our recent survey, which highlights … Read more

Categories Tax Reliefs, Video Games Tags tech startup, Video Games Tax Relief

Congratulations to Metric’s “Business Of The Year 2014”

8 October 202518 June 2014 by James Richardson

Ai-Media is an innovative global group that uses breakthrough technology to deliver captioning for the disabled Ai-Media is an innovative global group that uses breakthrough … Read more

Categories Case Studies Tags tech startup

Salary sacrifice – what is it?

8 October 202531 October 2012 by James Richardson

Salary sacrifice can reduce your personal tax bill and save your business NI contributions. But the amount of tax that can be saved varies widely. How … Read more

Categories Accounts & Tax, Business Tax, Personal Tax

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