Chartered Accountants Ireland has agreed a 3-year strategic partnership with GRID Finance, Ireland’s leading independent lender for small and medium businesses. This partnership will deliver a biennial GRID Finance SME Business Sentiment Survey co-created with Chartered Accountants Ireland in support of its strategic focus on the SME/SMP sector.
GRID will also become a sponsor of the Institute’s schools Bootcamp “Be The Boss” Challenge, a highly engaging, interactive business simulation for students signing up to the Bootcamp programme. This aligns with both GRID’s and the Institute’s ethos of educating future business leaders and promoting financial literacy from a young age, as well as giving back to the community.
Finally, GRID will sponsor ‘Going into Practice’ days, an essential day of training for practitioners who are taking the first steps into running their own practice or being admitted as partners in small and medium sized practices in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Eoin Christian, CEO, GRID Finance, “We are thrilled to be part of this exciting new partnership between GRID Finance and Chartered Accountants Ireland. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in supporting and educating businesses of all shapes and sizes across Ireland by combining GRID Finance's innovative funding solutions with the trusted expertise of Chartered Accountants Ireland”.
Barry Doyle, President Chartered Accountants Ireland, “This partnership is an excellent fit at an important time. As President, my commitment is to support and advocate for businesses, most particularly SMEs, the backbone of our economies. While the economy is performing strongly, businesses are facing turbulence, none more so than SMEs.
“By virtue of their size, they often lack the ability to remain resilient against external shocks, of which there is potential in the global economy this year. Our partnership with GRID will allow us to map SME sentiment, understand and respond to it, while also investing in the education of our future business leaders and promoting financial literacy.”
About GRID Finance
GRID was founded in 2013 with a belief and a passion. Our belief is that small and medium sized businesses are the economy’s real powerhouses. And since they are so important, we’re passionate about keeping them open for business. GRID’s total focus is on providing quick and easy access to the capital, advice and tools small businesses need to grow and thrive.
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