Case Study: Ward Williams Limited achieves reduced overheads and scalable growth with IRIS Software Group's OpenResourcing

Ward Williams grows its business not its overheads with IRIS OpenResourcing

Ward Williams Limited, a progressive firm of chartered accountants based in Weybridge and Uxbridge, needed to grow its client services—annual accounts preparation, bookkeeping, VAT and management accounts—without increasing headcount or overheads. To meet that challenge the firm became an early adopter in 2003 of IRIS Software Group’s IRIS OpenResourcing service.

Using IRIS OpenResourcing from IRIS Software Group, Ward Williams expanded use from around 200 hours over the first couple of years to roughly 200 hours per month by year nine, gaining consistent, UK‑trained resource and standardized working papers. The service delivers predictable pricing, frees in‑house staff for higher‑value work and saves the firm the equivalent cost of two employees (each earning about £20,000–£25,000 plus overheads), while maintaining high quality and operational consistency.

Ward Williams Limited

Phil Grainger

Managing Director