Born in Nottingham, UK, Lisa Newton moved to London to study Accounting with Marketing at Middlesex University. Graduating with a first class honours degree, she then went on to do an MSc in Investment Management at City University. In the same month of the Masters graduation ceremony at City, Lisa formed her first company Boogles bookkeeping with £150. Her mum put in £50, and Lisa used £100 of her overdraft.A strong supporter of women in business and entrepreneurial people, Lisa is an Ambassador for Enterprising Women (the UK campaign to give women confidence and ambition to be enterprising - to have ideas and to make them happen). She is a member of the ICB & AAT.Lisa is a serial entrepreneur and holds various directorships in various industries including telecoms, software, hair & beauty as well as finance. She has won various awards in Business including: Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2007 with Precious Online and in 2008 Enterprising Business Award and has been nominated and a finalist in numerous others including Boogles being short listed to the final 5, out of 14,500 entries for Best Bookkeeping Practice Lucas Awards in 2009 and 2011 and Boogles being short listed for Best Accounting Franchisor in 2011 by the BKN awards.

In 2012 & 2013 Boogles won Best Accounting Franchisor award. In 2015 Boogles won Best Bookkeeping Service AI award. In 2016, Lisa became a BE Mogul award winner.Lisa coaches and does talks on cashflow and money management. Information on courses and products can be found at: www.MakeTheMostOfYourMoneyBook.com Lisa supports the charity The MS Society. A speaker, consultant and an avid net-worker, Lisa enjoys meeting people and working on projects with like-minded individuals.

In her spare time, Lisa likes travelling, dancing salsa, writing books and learning languages. More about the author can be found at: www.LisaNewton.co.uk.