Ascendant Partners Limited provide a full range of accountancy, management accounting, audit, tax, and consulting services to their clients
They’ve been open and operating for five years, and their experienced team strive to provide the best possible service to all their clients. They’re sharing how they’ve grown with ACCA apprenticeships, and why they think they’re important.
Before Ascendant Partners Limited was formed, we had a practice that had been operating for 25 years. For many years, we had taken on people to train as accountants, so the switch to apprenticeships seemed obvious. One of the main attractions was the saving in costs for training. Apprenticeships were originally 90% supported, but now it’s raised to 95%. We used to pay for training throughout their whole career, but what we pay now is a lot less.
Ascendant Partners Limited has a total of 10 employees, four of which are apprentices, so we’re fairly small. When you have high quality people, you can provide high quality services. But to do that, you need to nurture a culture, because that will help you to nurture your clients. With ACCA’s help, we’ve been able to find talented people to join us and provide a high level of service for our clients. This is perfect not just short term, but long term too. As a small business, structure is important to us. ACCA’s structured programmes give me the reassurance that the quality of training is high, and the tuition provider is the same. That’s why ACCA stood out among the rest – the qualification is set up in a more structured, efficient and flexible way.
ACCA were incredibly helpful throughout the whole process, and still are. Initially we sent out job ads to be featured on their job board. These job adverts were being seen by people from across the whole world – and they were applying too. We also have a direct contact at ACCA, who has helped us through every step, and calmed any concerns that have arisen. Their support and services have helped us see a sharp increase in success.
How easy and simple the process is. I thought apprenticeships were really complicated and tricky to manage, but with ACCA, it’s so simple. Their training is a much better defined monitored and controlled approach to my previous experiences.