Paul Chapman

Whitesails Associates is an accountancy practice based in Plymouth which operates across the entire South West peninsula and has clients as far afield as Cambridgeshire. Paul Chapman, the owner and Director of Whitesails, is an experienced management accountant who set up Whitesails as a local friendly accountancy practice to provide advice and business services to small and medium-sized businesses. Paul qualified as a management accountant whilst serving in the RAF - just one of 6 management accountants in uniform. As well as looking after the finances for large overseas operations, Paul headed up several of the RAF's finance organisations and was renowned for making finance and accountancy understandable to those in uniform and promoting financial sustainability. After leaving the RAF Paul worked in industry for 7 years, most notably as the Head of Corporate Services and Financial Management for the Forensic Science Service, before starting his own accountancy practice, Whitesails Associates, in his home city of Plymouth.