ABOUT BASSLINE
Driving Success Through Collaboration
Empowering businesses to navigate complexity & achieve their goals
We believe success comes not just through technical expertise or encyclopaedic knowledge but through fostering genuine relationships and working in partnership, not just as a service provider
Our team has worked with businesses of all shapes and sizes and every time it begins with asking “What do you want to talk about?” – this allows us to listen, truly understand the business’ needs, and then create a fully tailored package that sees them fully supported in the exact way they want
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Highly regarded and trusted accountants and business partners
Providing the Foundation for Clients to Grow
Our mission is to raise the bar for what clients can, and should, expect from their accountants and to develop the trust needed for them to see us as the foundation on which they can thrive
Resetting the
Bassline
From speaking to people across multiple industries, from North to South, East to West, and with businesses from those just starting out to those already established one thing was abundantly clear – many were not happy with the level of service received and also didn’t feel confident discussing the finances of their business.
We took this and ran with it, thinking hard about how best to support people and came up with this:
- Business – truly understanding what their business does and what it’s aims are
- Advice – what level of advice is needed and how best can we deliver it to you?
- Solutions – how can we achieve the goals that you have set?
- Services – based on all of this what do you actually need from us?
A Team With Proven Expertise and Excellence
DAN BRIER
Director
Dan is one of the co-founders of BassLine, bringing over 25 years of diverse experience across global business and elite sports.
Dans career spans roles as a junior national athlete, police officer, olympic ski and snowboard coach, sports agent, director of sports performance, marketing professional and a business owner in various product and service based sectors both in the UK and Worldwide.
Dan’s unique background bridges high-performance sport, entrepreneurial leadership and specialised roles and responsibilities. Dan has designed and led elite national sports programs supporting olympic athletes; as a sports agent he successfully negotiated multi-year partnerships with some of the world’s leading brands and his business acumen has driven the launch and growth of several ventures operating both in domestic and international markets.
From the strategic planning required to prepare athletes for the Olympic stage to the detailed execution involved in building sustainable businesses, Dan draws on a deep well of expertise and passion. His journey reflects a consistent drive to perform at the highest level, whether in sport or enterprise—an ethos that underpins everything at BassLine.
IAN BURNS
Director
Ian Burns is the co-founder of Bassline Business Advisors & Chartered Accountants bringing 15 years of accounting, taxation, and finance experience including 10 year within audit.
Working with clients in such varied sectors as printing, manufacturing, and breweries through to investment property and property development, and also hospitality and even theatre production this gave a really solid grounding and an ability to understand a business’ needs quickly regardless of what they do.
Ian began the road to launching Bassline by partnering with a variety of new enterprises as they were launching, providing much needed close support in those early days and helping their leaders grow and develop both themselves and the business. From there things bloomed and now he partners with people from all walks of life, at all stages of their business growth, both across the UK and abroad.