Fiona Howard

Business Services & Tax Manager

Fiona joined MHA MacIntyre Hudson in 2018 following the merger of her previous firm.

She has over 14 years’ experience working in the accounting industry and is both a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor, providing her with unique insight into helping Owner Managed Businesses and Entrepreneurs develop and grow their companies.  

Fiona has considerable experience helping her clients put in place cloud accounting systems and enabling them to utilise the information generated to make business decisions. As well as advising her clients on potential tax planning strategies that are relevant to them, including EIS scheme set ups, research and development, inheritance tax planning, and family investment companies, empowering Entrepreneurs to fulfil their business goals in the most tax efficient way possible.

Additionally, Fiona has extensive experience advising individuals and companies under HMRC investigation.

Fiona takes pride in helping local businesses connect and grow together and she is a proud winner of Kent Women in Business Award ‘Woman in Finance’ 2017.

In her spare time she enjoys time in the countryside or on the beach with her partner and two dogs.

James Dickman

Accounts Manager

James started with MHA MacIntyre Hudson in 2009 where he completed his training and has worked his way up to Accounts Manager. James is a specialist in the Healthcare sector and assist his clients with a variety of services, including:

• Partnership and sole trader accounts and tax returns
• VAT returns, including partial exemption calculations
• Preparing superannuation certificates for the NHS pension scheme
• Bookkeeping and management accounts
• Due diligence and reviews of GP practices for merger and profitability purposes, including for local CCGs
• Implementing, training and advising on cloud accounting solutions for all organisations nationally

James qualified as a chartered accountant in 2014 and is a part of the ICAEW Healthcare Sector Group. He looks after a large number of GP practices and a wide variety of medical consultants mainly in the Kent and London, but works with clients both nationally and internationally too.

James is a Xero certified advisor and a certified QuickBooks Online advisor which he uses as part of his nominated Digital Solutions contact role for the firm.

In James’ spare time he enjoys playing snooker and pool as well as a round of golf and watching the Formula 1.

Robert Kidson

Partner

Robert has been head of corporate finance at 3 top 20 accountancy firms and has 25 years of lead advisory experience having completed over 100 transactions across all industry sectors in his career.

Robert’s professional experience is a mixture of venture capital/private equity and investment banking/corporate finance. He has also served as a non executive director and audit committee chair of several  listed and unlisted companies and in addition a member of the audit committee of a university.

Robert specialises in advising owner managed companies on their strategic plans. He raises private equity and other forms of finance for such companies, advises them on mergers and acquisitions, flotations and general corporate matters. He also advise management teams on management buy outs.

Teresa Marshall

Tax Manager

Teresa joined MHA MacIntyre Hudson in 2019 following the merger of her previous firm. She is a Chartered Tax Advisor and has specialised in personal tax for over 25 years.

Teresa has considerable experience in dealing with the tax affairs of doctors, and advising on capital gains tax and inheritance tax.