The Bookkeepers Conference

BCom FCA - Director

David Winch

David has had over 30 years’ experience in accountancy with a wide variety of firms and their clients ranging from the smallest to major multi-nationals. He is author of numerous articles and two books, 'Money Laundering for Lawyers: the new requirements and their practical implications' (with Janet Bazley KC) and 'A Practical Guide to Confiscation and Restraint' (with Narita Bahra KC and John Carl Townsend). David is also a forensic accountant, an experienced expert witness and a speaker at conferences and training events as a nationally recognised authority on money laundering, proceeds of crime and confiscation.

Zoe Thompson (Phoenix Coaching Ltd)

Zoe Thompson

Zoë Thompson is an Accredited Master Coach, keynote speaker, and former international strongwoman competitor, known for helping high-achieving professionals lead with identity, act with purpose, and succeed without sacrifice.

With over 20 years of leadership experience in the Police and 7+ years as a business owner, Zoë combines real-world credibility with powerful coaching to support individuals and organisations in achieving aligned success in life, leadership, and business.

Her coaching draws from lived experience, from frontline leadership to global stages. Blending mindset, strategy, and identity work to help ambitious individuals push past limits, embrace challenge, and create success that feels as good as it looks.

ATT - Director of Public Policy

Emma Rawson

Emma Rawson is Director of Public Policy at the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT), leading their tax technical and professional standards work. Her focus is on emerging tax policy, and she works closely with HMRC and the Treasury. She also strongly believes in sharing her knowledge about and love of tax with others. Whether that’s members of the accounting and tax profession through articles and talks, or the general public through media work and school visits.

Emma has a main focus on business and employment taxes, and frequently contributes articles on topical tax issues to leading tax and accountancy publications. She has presented talks and webinars around the country, as well as appearing on BBC Radio 5Live and BBC News to discuss tax issues and providing oral evidence to committees of both the House of Lords and House of Commons.

Emma is a member of the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT), and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW).

Bev Flanagan Financial Ltd

Bev Flanagan

Bev is a multi award winning accountant that has been in the accounting profession for 28 years. She founded and grew a 100% cloud accounting practice and successfully sold in the summer of 2022. She is very passionate about the accounting industry and now is a consultant to other accountants and bookkeepers to help them realise the potential in their practice ready for exit. Whether their exit be in the next 12 months, in the next 10 years or even 30 years! But every single practice owner will exit at some point and Bev believes that a business should be running right now with the exit in mind, so it’s always at it’s highest profitability and saleable asset value. She is also an elected council member, director and trustee of the AAT.