Is it possible to access the preferences in annotations?

I have a model called Company and have added in various preferences. I am updating and setting these, everything works a treat. A sotred model prefence is in a section called late_fees and field name late_fees. I would like to access the value whilst annotating a queryset and wrote this:

'reminder': Case(When(Q(company__preferences__late_fees__late_fee=False), then=Value(False, output_field=BooleanField())), default=Value(True, output_field=BooleanField()))

This is just an example - the error I get is:

Unsupported lookup 'preferences' for ForeignKey or join on the field not permitted. Should this be supported?