Graham Patrick Spellman was born in Farnham Common, near Slough in 1947 and, after attending Slough Grammar School he gained a B.Soc.Sc.(Honours) specialising in Economics, Politics & Sociology from the University of Birmingham in 1968.

That year he joined EMI Electronics as a contracts officer handling military contracts. He undertook his professional qualification and was elected a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in June 1971.

In 1970 he joined Spillers Foods as assistant to the Chief Production Accountant and swiftly moved on to become the Company Accountant for three companies in the Meat Division. In 1974 he took on the role of Group Accountant to the whole Meat Division which role he retained until 1980. During his time with Spillers, the total turnover for which he was responsible rose to in excess of £40M.

In 1981 he left to start his own commercial management accountancy practice where he has become an integral part of many of his clients’ operations. In 1986 he extended his interests to an accounting software/hardware sale and support operation, although he now only takes a “back seat” interest in this business.

The reason for this was that he concentrated his wide range of accounting, management, taxation and planning skills into the Accounting Centre which he founded in 1993 and which was superceded in 2002 by the Accounting & Taxation Centre Ltd.

During his career Graham has developed and honed his skills, not only in the expected areas of accounting, audit, taxation and company secretarial duties, but has also provided his wide range of clients (approximately 150) with support in the areas of business strategy, financial planning, project preparation and management, process analysis, negotiation and management reviews. He also has expertise in the area of staff management and reviews.

Together with Krzysz Zablocki, he believes that the Accounting & Taxation Centre Ltd is well placed to meet the demands of his target client market.