For over 20 years, Val has worked with accountancy practices, helping them to develop their businesses and remain compliant.

She is the author and co-author of a number of technical guides and work programmes including the CCH Industry Audit and Accounting Guide on Clubs and Associations, the Practice Society Anti-Money Laundering Procedures and Training Manual and the ACCA Audit Programmes and International Audit Programmes.

She enjoys helping firms to develop, advising on training and staffing policy and all aspects of practice management.She also lectures widely on auditing, management skills and assurance services.We aim to provide a flexible, value for money service that meets the specific needs of our clients. 

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After spending a couple of years in this family business, Jeremy entered the world of taxation. He started with Coopers & Lybrand and for the next 15 years was in three of the “Big Four” accountancy firms.

He ended up as a Senior Manager with Deloitte & Touche, having worked issues such as profit related pay, share schemes, expatriate tax, tax investigations, reward management, US taxation, transfer pricing and corporate tax. He was attracted by the opportunity to go in-house in 2001.

From 2013, Jeremy set up his own consultancy and lecturing business.

Away from work, Jeremy likes cricket history, skiing, tennis and gardening. He gives lectures on history which helps keep his presentation skills fresh.

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Dr Hill is a leading expert who has spoken at conferences and run courses in the UK, Europe, United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, United States and SE Asia aimed at both corporate and regulatory sectors in the areas of open source intelligence, cyber security, data protection and counter fraud awareness.

He has trained UK and European police forces (including Operation Podium in the buildup to the 2012 Olympics and the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorist Group SO15), Home Office, the Lithuania Government Cyber Crime Unit, Abu Dhabi Accountability Authority and the National Crime Agency spending two years training their National Cyber Crime Unit (NCCU) on level 2/3 open source intelligence.

Over the last 10 years he has worked closely with private-sector fraud units, not-for-profit organisations, major world banks, telecommunication companies and international retailers.

Prior to setting up Hill Bingham Ltd Stephen spent over 11 years working for a top international firm of chartered accountants heading the Fraud and Forensic Group, leading an expert body advising clients on prevention, detection and recovery of fraudulent assets, working closely with the police, HMRC and private sector.

He spent 12 years as a Trustee Director of the Fraud Advisory Panel and chaired their Cyber-Crime Workgroup and is now a special advisor.  He is an honorary member on the steering committee of the London Fraud Forum and sits on the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) UK Chapter committee.

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Malcolm is a UK Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor.

He was previously Director of Finance and Taxation Programmes at BPP Professional Education and has delivered IFRS, US GAAP, UK Tax and VAT training to a multitude of organisations world-wide since 1992. 

Malcolm has particular experience in delivering bespoke training programmes to multi-nationals in the financial services, transport and energy sectors as well as delivering UK tax and VAT update programmes to accounting and law firms.

He is passionate about training and his enthusiasm ensures that the participants enjoy the learning experience whilst gaining knowledge through their engagement in the sessions and through encouraging them to ask questions and discuss practical issues they may have.

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Rebecca has become a nationally renowned tax lecturer as well as an advisor to HMRC. In 2012 she was awarded an MBE for services to taxation. A life-long member of the Gloucestershire community, Rebecca’s passion for helping local businesses to thrive remains her long-term focus. 

Now joined by three of her five adult children who have followed in her footsteps, the thriving family practice is underpinned by Rebecca’s wealth of experience in simplifying the tax process and guiding clients to financial success. Rebecca works closely with clients from all walks of life to support them in building their businesses and dealing with the tax authorities.

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Ros left university in 1988 having undertaken a PhD in Pharmacology and joined the Inland Revenue as a direct entrant inspector. After passing the internal exams, she worked in the Large Business Office in Birmingham dealing with the tax affairs of some of the UK's largest groups of companies. She was transferred to a local District office as Deputy District Inspector following the birth of her daughter, where she undertook a full range of technical and investigation work involving income tax, corporation tax and capital gains tax as well as gaining familiarity with all procedure aspects of the work done by the Department. At this time she also had special responsibility for managing Employer Compliance work.Since leaving the Inland Revenue in 2000, she initially worked as a consultant and lecturer for the PTP group. She left to set up her own business in 2004.She has a varied client base including accountants and solicitors. As part of her consultancy she deals with a wide range of issues. These included tax planning for large and small businesses and individuals, and dealing with HMRC enquiries. She covers all areas of direct tax as well as Stamp Duty Land Tax.

The lecturing she does includes CPD training seminars for accountants and solicitors as well as production of computer training modules and bespoke training for different clients.

Her experiences give her an ability to look at different aspects of tax in relation to any given scenario. She can understand the areas of risk from the Revenue's perspective and can give practical advice on dealing with those risks. She sees her job as providing realistic and pragmatic solutions - she appreciates that tax is not necessarily the only thing which drives commercial transactions and realise that different solutions may be needed in different circumstances.

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Peter specialises in financial reporting (UK GAAP and IFRS), audit, company law and AML, and also has a particular interest in charity and academy accounting and audit.

Peter’s enthusiasm for his topic and commitment to the learning experience means each training day is unique, relevant, fun and memorable.

Peter heads up our team of independent file reviewers offering hot and cold file reviews to accountancy practices and technical advice on aspects of accounting, audit and practice regulation compliance.

Outside of work Peter is a big sports fan. He is a life-long Wrexham FC season ticket holder and is also a qualified cricket coach.

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Giles is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Adviser and has been involved in UK tax training for many years, presenting across various media channels. 

Giles started his career with a small firm of accountants and tax advisers, before working as a director of a large professional training company. He has written for a number of publications on various UK tax and business issues including writing PTP’s own monthly publication – Professional Tax Update. Giles entertains and educates professionals several days each week running tax seminars throughout the country. He is also the presenter of TAXtv and AccountingTV.

Giles is a partner of The Professional Training Partnership, Managing Director of PTP Ltd and a director of Absolute Software Ltd.

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Guy is a partner in the Professional Training Partnership and a director of PTP limited. He is a member of the lecturing panels for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He specialises in Auditing and Financial Reporting updates (new UK GAAP, IFRS and US GAAP) for accountants in practice and in industry, and in finance courses for members of the wider financial community. He also provides a consultancy service to assist companies in preparing their annual financial statements. Guy makes occasional television appearances and co-presents Accounting TV, a quarterly on-line programme, with Giles Mooney.

Guy was a founder member of the Lou Reed fan club, set up in 1971, has contributed to books about Lou Reed and met him on several occasions.

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Karen has worked for more than 25 years in professional services, including 11 years as a
tax partner with Ernst & Young. Her technical background is as a qualified solicitor and Chartered Tax Advisor. However, her key area of expertise is employer services and, over the course of her career, she has collaborated with a large number of different organisations to address the challenges that stem from motivating, rewarding and dealing with diverse and mobile employee populations.

Karen currently has her own business providing education services for tax professionals. This includes lecturing on CTA and ATT exam training courses as well as creating and delivering post-qualification CPD courses. She is also responsible for preparing study material for one of the UK’s main providers of CTA Human Capital exam training.

Karen has also written a number of books aimed at practitioners. Her current titles are National Insurance 2024-25 (now in its fourth edition) and Inheritance Tax 2024-25. She also co-writes Income Tax (now in its fifth edition). All titles are published by Claritax Books.