Our Strategy

Our purpose is to redefine what people can expect from accountants.

Accounting. Rebooted.

Ascendant is built for entrepreneurs and small businesses who want more from their accountant. We make accounting faster, easier and more useful, using smart technology and straight-talking advice to help people make better decisions and move forward with confidence.

1. Champion Small Business

Objective: To unlock the potential of small businesses, their founders and their teams.
How we do this:

Educating business owners so they understand their numbers

Supporting clients at every stage of their journey

Turning that understanding into better decisions

Being firmly on our clients’ side

Helping better decisions drive better outcomes

We build long-term relationships and aim to be the first, last and only accountant you’ll ever need. This is accounting built around small businesses and entrepreneurs — not big-firm processes.

2. Reboot Accounting

Objective: To build a next-generation accounting firm fit for the world we’re in today.
How we do this:

Designing modern services and ideas that work for today’s businesses

Focusing on value and outcomes, not just cost and compliance

Using technology to make everyday accounting better, not just different

Being specialist, not generalist, so advice actually adds value

Combining tech-powered delivery with human-led service

This is Accounting Rebooted.

3. Platform For Success

Objective: To create a home where great people and ambitious smaller practices can unlock their potential together.
How we do this:

Building a joined-up business that supports our people to do their best

Investing in shared platforms, tools and ways of working

Providing the scale, support and structure many firms struggle to build alone

Helping smaller practices level up without losing their identity

Creating one Ascendant family, united by shared values and ambition

Our platform exists for one reason: to help our people, our partner firms and our clients go further, together.