Meet the Founder
Ali Tekagac — Managing Director.
Strategic finance adviser and modern accountant supporting founder-led businesses across the UK.
Founder · Managing Director
Ali Tekagac
Strategic finance adviser to founder-led businesses across hospitality, e-commerce, property and professional services.
Background
A practitioner first.
Ali's career has been built in UK practice — across bookkeeping, statutory accounts, tax and advisory work for owner-managed businesses. The thread throughout has been a simple question: how do good numbers turn into better decisions?
That practitioner background informs how Singletree works today. Compliance is treated as the floor, not the ceiling, and year-end is the start of the conversation rather than the end.
Why Singletree
Built for founders who deserve more.
Singletree was founded to bridge a gap Ali saw repeatedly in the market — between traditional accounting practices that file and forget, and modern businesses that need a partner who can think strategically about cash, profit and growth.
The result is a practice that pairs premium compliance with genuine CFO-style advisory — under one roof, led personally by the founder.
Specialism
Film, TV and the creative industries.
Ali leads Singletree's Film & TV finance and tax-credit support. That covers production accounting and cost reporting, Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit and Independent Film Tax Credit calculations, BFI cultural test preparation, and the audit-ready supporting schedules and evidence packs that claims depend on.
Where a claim requires an auditor's report, that report is completed by an appropriately registered independent statutory auditor. Singletree is not a registered statutory auditor and does not sign audit reports; our role is to prepare the numbers, schedules and evidence so the process runs cleanly.
More detail on this work is on our Film & TV accountants page.
Advisory philosophy
Compliance, clarity, growth — in that order.
Compliance, quietly handled
Accounts, tax, payroll and VAT delivered to a premium standard so the foundations are never the worry.
Clarity over complexity
Numbers translated into plain English — so founders can lead with confidence, not confusion.
Growth through discipline
Forecasts, KPIs and reviews that turn ambition into a measurable plan.
CFO-style support, on-tap
Senior finance thinking on every engagement, not just at year-end.
Industries supported
Sectors Ali and the team know deeply.
Depth over breadth. Singletree focuses on industries where founder-led businesses benefit most from a strategic finance partner.
Let's talk numbers
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