Firstly I would like to thank you for taking time to visit our website, and I do hope you have found it useful.

My name is Jason Holden and I am the principal of Holden Associates which is a family run practice. I am a UK qualified accountant who has over 24 years experience within the owner managed business sector.

It is after many years working for not only locally based firms of accountants here in Lancashire, as well as one of West Yorkshires leading firms in the city of Leeds that I opened Holden Associates in February 2004 to offer my expertise on a full time basis, to not only the local business community here in the North West, but through the use of technology such as online accounting software, skype, email, our online chat facility and of course not forgetting good old BT we have since January 2005 been able to advise and support businesses just like you, nationally.

You will have seen throughout this website the commitment and passion I have for providing my clients with an edge in todays competitive business environment. This is something I take very seriously, as well as being a qualified accountant and business adviser (or business mentor, the label doesn't really matter), I am also just like you, a business owner. Holden Associates was itself a start up, in 2004 it became my only source of income, with only a small handful of clients, and certainly not enough clients to put any "jam on my toast", but I went for it, and I am very proud of what we are building here at Holden Associates.

In 2003, with the realisation that the business world was getting ever smaller, trade barriers becoming ever more blurred and the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards creating an ever more level playing field across the globe, I took the decision to further my reach by gaining a further professional accounting qualification in Australia, something which has already proved useful and enabled me to put our clients in touch with other suitably qualified and competent advisers thousands of miles away. 

In November 2010 I joined the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs 'IOEE' as a Mentor. Having previously been a Full Member of the Institute of Business Consulting I felt that in the current climate the IOEE is more relevant to the needs of the Small and Medium sized Business owner and Entrepreneur. 

It is my ultimate aim, together with the other professionally qualified people we partner with, to make Holden Associates a ‘one stop shop’ for all our clients business needs, whether it be accounting, taxation, employment law, business advice or even help finding overseas professional advisers, but at all times remembering that each client is different, and they all deserve the best advice and support we can offer.

For what our clients have to say about Holden Associates please visit our client testimonials page.