Jonathan Askew
Jonathan is an audit partner in the Wimbledon office of Hartley Fowler, technical partner for the firm and leads the firm’s specialist charities and not for profit team. He divides his time between advising clients on a variety of subjects, providing support to the whole firm overseeing high level accounting and auditing issues and for professional compliance matters, training and mentoring of team members.
Jonathan’s clients come from a wide range of sectors that include technology, property, venture capital, and a number of international groups. He works closely with owner managers and family run businesses delivering professional advice that helps them manage, run and grow their organisations. By obtaining an in depth understanding of his clients and their affairs, he is able to provide solutions that balance the needs of the business with those of the founder and family behind it.
With an extensive client portfolio of charity and not for profit organisations Jonathan is able to draw upon more than 20 years of experience to provide the expert advice vital in this sector. Running a charity is a complex and exacting operation, ensuring compliance with an increasing range of financial reporting, legal, taxation and VAT issues.
Jonathan graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in 1995 and joined Hartley Fowler shortly after, completing his ACA qualification with the firm. Now an FCA he became a partner in 2009.
Jonathan is married with 2 children and in his spare time he enjoys spending time with family and friends and, when the time permits, travelling somewhere warm for scuba diving.