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Tara Askham​

Tara is a qualified lecturer and published author, with over twelve years’ experience as a trainer and over twenty years’ experience in the accountancy profession.

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Afterworking with multi-million-pound budgets across multiple sectors, Tara went on to co-find a multi-award-winning social enterprise, writing funding applications and securing funds from a range of charitable and government organisations. She wrote the first Accountancy Access to Higher Education Diploma in the country. With a passion for helping individuals and businesses understand the numbers, Tara has won numerous awards over the years.

Tara designs and delivers accounting/finance and spreadsheet training both face to face and online for global organisations and works with companies to provide bespoke learning solutions to enhance growth and enable managers/directors to think more strategically whilst considering the financial implications.

Tara is personable and approachable with the natural ability to put people at ease to ask questions and improve their confidence in making decisions based upon the numbers provided but also have the confidence to challenge financial data provided.

Tara is an educational consultant writing and moderating examination materials for some of the biggest accountancy publishers and awarding bodies around the world. She is an external quality assurer for the Association of Accounting Technicians inspecting colleges around the country, checking quality standards and a guest lecturer at Nottingham Trent University.

Tara’s Achievement:

  • Published author with three accountancy books published by Osborne Books
  • Appointed as a NatWest Social & Community Capital funding panel member
  • Business Mentor for UnLtd, Santander Women in Business Programme and Enterprise Nation Help To Grow Scheme
  • Listed as one of the top 55 social entrepreneurs in the UK in 2020
  • ACCA’s innovative online learning programme, ACCA-X won the Best eLearning and Online Education Award at the International and European Association Awards held in Berlin, Germany in 2016. Tara wrote two modules within this course

​Qualifications & Accreditations:

  • Fellow Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians
  • Level 5 Certificate in Education
  • Level 5 CMI Award in Leadership and Management
  • Level 4 Award in Understanding the External Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practice
  • Level 4 Award in Internal Quality Assurance of Assessment Processes and Practices

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