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Welcome to your career in accountancy
ACCA student Ali Ryder from Ensors Chartered Accountants guides new accountancy trainees through the early stages of their accountancy career… Every year accountancy firms take on a new intake of...
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Accountants as project managers
By Jamie Lyon, head of corporate sector, ACCA Increasingly many roles and activities in the finance function are becoming more project-orientated. This is a reflection of the important role finance...
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How do you juggle the Olympics and your ACCA exams?
By Ed McKeever, ACCA student and Team GB Olympic hopeful It’s been a couple of months since my last blog so I’ll start with the important stuff. Last weekend at the National Canoeing Championships in...
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Just a bunch of accountants?
By Ian Welch, head of policy, ACCAThe half-jokey jibe at the profession which UK Prime Minister David Cameron made recently, when he said he did not want his government being just 'seen as a bunch of...
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Back to the financial future…
A couple of financial stories this week have made this observer delve back into his archive. The ongoing success of Nationwide, by far the biggest of the UK's remaining building societies, was...
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Directors’ liability health check
by Gillian Sayburn ACCA member and Insolvency Director at Begbies Traynor (Central) LLP The concept of limited liability for limited companies (including LLPs) is, in the event of the failure of a SME...
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Mentoring: good for mentor, good for mentee
Anita Brook, Managing Director of Accounts Assist UK Ltd and vice-president of ACCA’s practitioners panel explains how mentoring is good for both the mentee and the mentor We all start somewhere....
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What finance leaders want from shared services and outsourcing
By Jamie Lyon, head of corporate sector at ACCA The benefits of finance transformation and the adoption of alternative finance models such as shared services and outsourcing — transparency, lower cost,...
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Particle physics and the significance of accountancy
By David York, head of auditing practice at ACCA The Higgs Boson is no doubt feeling rather exposed right now, which probably makes a change from feeling hunted. Even the Financial Times has gotten...
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Guest blog: employee ownership
Iain Hasdell is the Chief Executive of the Employee Ownership Association the voice of employee owned businesses in the UK The report of the independent Nuttall Review into barriers to employee...
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