Howard Hackney

Howard Hackney LLP

Partner

Firscroft, Firs Lane, Appleton, Warrington, WA4 5LD

www.howardhackney.co.uk

Contact: Howard Hackney

Company description

Howard Hackney LLP is a new advisory practice of Chartered Accountants focussed on Privately Owned and Family Businesses, High net worth individuals and Professional Practices. We provide and implement practical solutions to their issues. We are creative and imaginative and consider the client in the round from the perspective of a number of disciplines (corporate finance, tax, financial planning, strategic planning, and business advice) to help clients achieve their objectives.

About the expert

In October 2008 Howard left Grant Thornton UK LLP, where he had been a partner for over 25 years, to establish his own boutique practice. In an increasingly specialised profession Howard saw the market opportunity to provide an all round advisory service to mid market businesses and professional practices who wished to have the personal advice and support of “their accountant” and to provide that service free of the restrictions necessarily imposed by a large professional firm. During his time at Grant Thornton he has had a variety of roles although his first love has always been client service where he feels he can really “make a difference. He joined Grant Thornton in Liverpool in 1974 before moving to London for 3 years. He returned to the North West to lead the acquisition and integration of a practice in Warrington and returned to his native Liverpool in 1992. He was a member of the firms partner selection panel and the North West Regional Marketing partner and during the last four years he has led the Special Projects team in Liverpool during a period of double digit compound growth. He has been, for the last two years, Head of Family Business for the firm. In 2002 he won the CBI's national award as "Best Business Adviser" having been short listed in 2001. He appears regularly in the broadcast and print media and speaks regularly at seminars and conferences.