Carters was established as an accounting practice in Glenrothes in 1964. As one of Scotland's "new towns" the 1960's and 1970's saw tremendous economic growth in the area with many new businesses starting up or relocating to the area.

This has given the practice the ethos of dealing with new and growing businesses to the extent we do not involve ourselves, for example, in receivership or liquidation work. We hope that our involvement with our clients will avoid that eventuality and indeed many of our clients have become very successful and we are now seeing a number of cases where we are dealing the next generation of business owners. This is very satisfying but to avoid complacency we always looking at new ways of delivering services and the range of proactive services we offer to our clients.

The firm has placed great emphasis on the use of information technology and continues to make significant investment in our in house systems. Many of our clients have similarly computerised and now reap the benefits from that investment.

We believe that there is a knowledge gap in many small and medium sized enterprises. They cannot afford full-time financial expertise but would really benefit and value someone answering their day-to-day problems. We can fill this gap by becoming a virtual Financial Director.