THE East Anglian Daily Times has teamed up with Larking Gowen Chartered Accountants to help conduct a survey of local business issues, with the results featured in the pages of BusinessEast next month.

THE East Anglian Daily Times has teamed up with Larking Gowen Chartered Accountants to help conduct a survey of local business issues, with the results featured in the pages of BusinessEast next month.

Larking Gowen is surveying around 500 local businesses - small, medium and large - to assess their opinions on topical issues.

The results of the survey, which is planned to become a regular feature, will be accompanied by comment from a panel of local experts.

Bob Rose, managing partner of Larking Gowen, said: “We our pleased to be working with our friends at the EADT to run this survey and it will be interesting to find the current health of businesses in the area.

“This is an exciting time for Larking Gowen as we now operate throughout Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, and we look forward to discovering views on the subjects raised.”

Duncan Brodie, business editor at the EADT, added: “We are delighted to have the expertise of Larking Gowen in conducting this new survey which we believe will provide a valuable insight into the health of the local economy and its prospects.”

Survey forms are being distributed this week and BusinessEast invites all business owners and senior managers to have their say.

For your chance to take part, please complete the survey on-line on Larking Gowen's website www.larking-gowen.co.uk by June 16.

All completed questionnaires will be entered into a prize draw and the winning entry form will receive a bottle of champagne.