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PARTNERS PROFILE

Kevin Dickens
Kevin trained and qualified with the practice and was appointed as a partner in 1975. He specialises in tax and business planning for family owned businesses and claims to have seen every problem under the sun and found solutions for most of them.  
He is a member of both the Executive Committee and Quality Assurance Committee of the UK200Group.
As well as working closely with the local Chambers of Commerce and other business support organisations, Kevin is a regular speaker on tax and financial issues.

Mike Doherty
Mike trained and qualified with Howard Worth and became a partner in 1992. Mike heads our South Cheshire office in Nantwich and has overseen the growth of the practice in South Cheshire and the Potteries.
He has a diverse portfolio of growing businesses and specialises in the leisure industry and in property taxation, particularly for buy to let investors. He is also a qualified Independent Financial Advisor (IFA) and heads Howard Worth Financial Services.

Richard Barnett
Richard became the practices first specialist farming partner in 1995, further developing and consolidating our expertise in this field.
His energy and efforts have made Howard Worth one of the leading financial and taxation specialists in agriculture. 
Richard has a wealth of experience in practical farming, accountancy, taxation matters, financial planning and business management. He is the Chairman of  The UK200Group Agricultural Committee.

Chris Swallow
Chris trained and qualified with Price Waterhouse,
before joining Howard Worth in September 2000.

Chris is the firm's Senior Audit Compliance Partner and
has extensive experience in advising and co-ordinating
the audits of larger private companies and groups.
He also specialises in public sector audit work.

In addition Chris also has a wide portfolio of non audit limited companies, in particular, specialising in IT Contractors and Consultants.

Rose Rowland
Rose joined Howard Worth where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant.   Following her appointment as a partner in April 2002, she now acts as a Specialist Farming and Rural Business Accounts and Taxation Partner.
Rose solves taxation problems and is experienced in all aspects of taxation work for landowners, farmers and tenants as well as diversified businesses.
Rose also runs the successful Rural Business Women networking group.

Andrew Hague
Andrew, an engineering graduate, qualified in 2001
and became a partner at our South Cheshire office
in 2004. As well as managing client audits and
providing general accountancy advice, he specialises
in growing businesses.

Andrew is renowned for devising pragmatic solutions to resolve difficult situations and is a member of the UK200 Group Solicitors committee.

Mike Donnan
Mike joined Howard Worth as a partner in October 2007,
having previously worked with the firm as a consultant.

Mike trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers and specialised
in taxation on qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1988.
During eleven years with that firm, he took a lead tax role
on a wide range of clients, from publically quoted companies to high net work individuals, as well as spending a period seconded to National Technical Training in London. Following a couple of years as Tax Director with an independent Cheshire firm, Mike established his own tax consultancy and accountancy practice in 1998 specialising in effective tax planning for family businesses.

Julie Whalley
Julie Whalley trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Howard Worth and wasappointed as a partner in January 2000.  
Julie acts for a wide variety of clients and also undertakes specialist assignments such as due diligence, management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, profit advising and regulated audits.
Julie also runs the successful Warrington and Northwich Women in Business networkinggroups.

Chris Smith
Chris gained his Chartered Tax Advisor qualification in 1999 before joining Howard Worth in 2000, he became Partner in April 2007. He is also a qualified Trust and Estate Practitioner.
Chris works closely with our clients and is experienced in all aspects of personal tax, trusts and inheritance tax planning as well as capital gains tax matters.
Chris is an experienced accountant, dealing with sole traders, partnerships and non-audit limited companies.

Brad Ehlen, Associate
Brad joined Howard Worth in 1997 where he qualified as a Certified Accountant in 2000. He became an Associate of the Practice in July 2007.

Brad is an experienced accountant and is an expert in the field of the new Construction Industry Scheme Rules he has extensive experience dealing with all types of construction and also haulage clients.