About Ballards Online, Chartered Accountants

A London-based Chartered Accountants practice — five decades on.

Ballards Online, Chartered Accountants is the trading brand of Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited, an ICAEW-regulated London practice that has been established since the 1970s. We deliver fixed-fee, fully online filing for UK directors, landlords and sole traders — under the ownership of Krishna Prasad Dahal.

50+Years of heritage
1,000+UK filings handled
ICAEWChartered & regulated
£2,000,000PII cover
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Our story

A London chartered practice with five decades on the record.

Ballards Online traces back to a London chartered practice founded by Len Rickman and Robert Brooks in the mid-1970s as Rickman Brooks. Over the years partners joined, mergers happened, and the firm's name evolved — Bernie Fellman, Laurence Cohen, Frank Newman, Leon Perkin. In March 2007 the practice was reorganised as Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited, the legal entity that holds the firm today.

In June 2022 ownership passed to Krishna Prasad Dahal. Today the firm trades online as Ballards Online, Chartered Accountants, delivering UK accounts, Corporation Tax, VAT, Self Assessment, payroll and bookkeeping on a fixed-fee, fully online basis.

What we do is straightforward, and what we have always done: prepare accounts, file tax, run payroll and keep UK businesses compliant. The way we deliver has modernised — fixed fees, a secure online portal, MTD-ready software — and every filing is signed off by an ICAEW Chartered Accountant.

Five decades, one practice

The firm, year by year

A continuous London chartered practice — from a mid-1970s firm to a fully online, fixed-fee filing service today. Every milestone below is independently verifiable through Companies House and the ICAEW firm register.

  1. Mid-1970s

    Founded as Rickman Brooks

    Len Rickman and Robert Brooks set up an ICAEW Chartered Accountants practice in London — the original firm from which Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited descends.

  2. 1987

    Bernie Fellman joins; firm trades as "Ballards"

    Bernie Fellman joined as partner and the firm took the trading name Ballards.

  3. 1997 – 1998

    Cohen joins as partner; Muller joins as manager

    Laurence Cohen joined as partner in January 1997. Robert Muller joined as manager in 1998. Founding partner Len Rickman retired at 65; Robert Brooks and Laurence Cohen continued the practice.

  4. February 2001

    Merger with Frank Newman creates Ballards Newman Ltd

    The neighbouring practice of Frank Newman was acquired and merged in, and the firm was renamed Ballards Newman Ltd — the heritage carried by the present-day firm.

  5. August 2004

    Leon Perkin joins

    Leon Perkin joined the practice, which operated for a period as Ballards Perkin Lewis Ltd.

  6. March 2007

    Ballards Newman (Finchley) Ltd — the present legal entity

    Following the passing of founding partner Robert Brooks, the remaining partners reorganised the practice into Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited (Companies House no. 06165758) — the legal entity that holds the firm today.

  7. April 2020

    Passing of Leon Perkin

    Leon Perkin passed away in April 2020. Laurence Cohen and Robert Muller continued running the practice.

  8. June 2022

    New ownership — Krishna Prasad Dahal

    Krishna Prasad Dahal acquired the practice in June 2022, taking over a chartered firm with five decades of UK practice heritage. The ICAEW firm registration and the Companies House entity were unaffected by the change of ownership.

  9. Today

    Trading online as Ballards Online, Chartered Accountants

    The firm trades today as Ballards Online, Chartered Accountants — owned by Krishna Prasad Dahal and delivered fully online. Fixed-fee filings for UK limited companies, landlords and sole traders, signed off to an ICAEW Chartered Accountants standard.

Meet the principal

Krishna Prasad Dahal — owner & principal

The named, registered director of the firm. Publicly searchable on Companies House.

Owner, Principal & Director · Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited

Krishna Prasad Dahal acquired Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited in June 2022, taking on a Chartered Accountants practice with five decades of UK heritage. He owns the firm, leads its day-to-day direction and is the registered director at Companies House.

Day-to-day filings are delivered with the wider chartered team Krishna leads — preparing accounts, filing tax, running payroll and signing off every submission to an ICAEW Chartered Accountants standard.

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  • Role Owner & principal since June 2022
  • Based London (delivered online UK-wide)
  • Entity Ballards Online Limited · Companies House 04672391
  • Standard ICAEW Chartered Accountants sign-off on every filing

The wider chartered team

Every filing is prepared and signed off by an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. The team covers the full UK SME work — micro-entity accounts and CT600 Corporation Tax for limited companies, VAT and Self Assessment for landlords, contractors and sole traders, monthly payroll with RTI submissions, and cloud bookkeeping on Xero, QuickBooks or FreeAgent.

Why you can trust us

Regulated, insured, accountable

Your money, your HMRC record, your business. Here's how the firm is held to account — and how you can independently verify every claim on this page.

ICAEW regulated

Regulated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. Firm no. C005412891. Subject to ICAEW's Code of Ethics and practice assurance reviews.

Fully insured

Professional Indemnity Insurance of £2,000,000 held with Hiscox Insurance Company Ltd. Every engagement is covered.

AML supervised

Supervised for anti-money-laundering compliance by ICAEW. We carry out AML checks on every new client, as required by UK law.

Data-protection registered

Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ZA612347). Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Credentials & track record

Continuous ICAEW Chartered Accountants practice — verifiable, insured and on the record.

Accounts, Corporation Tax and VAT decisions affect your balance-sheet position, HMRC exposure and director liability. Every line on this page is independently verifiable on a public register, an insurer's schedule or an HMRC receipt.

Five decades of UK Chartered Accountancy practice

From Rickman Brooks in the mid-1970s to Ballards Newman (Finchley) Limited today — a continuous ICAEW Chartered Accountants practice in London. The current legal entity was incorporated in 2004 at Companies House under number 04672391, taking forward the regulated practice that preceded it.

Every filing signed off by an ICAEW Chartered Accountant

Membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales requires three years of structured training, the full ACA professional examinations and ongoing continuing professional development — audited by ICAEW every year. No filing leaves this firm without a Chartered Accountant's name on it.

Regulated by ICAEW · supervised for AML

The firm is regulated by ICAEW under firm number C005412891 and supervised for anti-money-laundering compliance by ICAEW. The registration is listed on the public ICAEW firm register — verify here.

Professional indemnity cover · fixed fees · named partner

Every engagement is covered by £2,000,000 of Professional Indemnity Insurance with Hiscox Insurance Company Ltd. Fees are quoted in writing before work starts — no hourly billing, fixed price as per quote. Any additional work is charged on an hourly rate, agreed in advance. One named ICAEW-qualified accountant owns your file end-to-end. If anything ever goes wrong, there is a published complaints procedure and an independent ICAEW escalation path.

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