Publisher's Synopsis
Doctor Brian Apthorp, assisted by accountant Graeme Jack, and solicitor Tim Brears, takes a critical look at professional partnerships and the problems associated with setting them up, joining, running and leaving them. The tone is initially light, anecdotal and amusing, but the angst of the many professionals interviewed is apparent. Along with a range of issues and situations experienced and noted by Brian Apthorp during his professional life, there are specialist chapters. Graeme Jack takes the reader through the development of accounting practices to gigantic proportions and the testing times such as the demise of Andersen. Tim Brears' legal package includes 'de facto' partnerships, agreements and the concepts of partnership, benefits, obligations and dangers. This book should be read by anyone involved in a profession, be it medicine, law, accountancy, dentistry, quantity surveying, architecture, stockbroking or estate agency. Solo practitioners, assistants (with or without a partnership), salarled partners and equity partners will all find something of interest.
