Do you want to know more about the top firms in the UK? And more than that, do you want to convey to hundreds of thousands of others what those firms are really like?

Accountancyage.com has introduced a new feature: a ‘wiki’ with separate pages for each of the Top 20 UK accounting firms.

A wiki, derived from the Hawaiian word ‘wiki wiki’, which means fast, is a technology that enables users to edit and update web pages simply and quickly.

The use of these wiki pages will allow any reader who works for a Top 20 firm, or from further afield, to add their knowledge to the Accountancy age.com platform.

All contributions are confidential, and will allow readers to help shape the understanding of their firm.

Readers can include a breakdown of a firm’s history, recent news, annual results, mergers, future strategy and details on the inner-workings of how the firm operates.

Wiki pages are entirely open and free for anyone to use. The aim of the Accountancyage.com wiki pages is to enable the entire profession to pool its knowledge on the UK’s top practices.

Those who have content they would like to share should visit accountancyage.com/wiki/ where they can make additions to pages.

To start off, the wiki page for each firm has already been populated with information, outlining its history, earnings, leadership and recent news ­ good and bad.

The wiki page on PricewaterhouseCoopers, for example, details how the firm evolved to become the largest in the UK and the world, but also points out the firm has precious few female partners.

The KPMG page outlines the series of deals and mergers that have coloured the firm’s corporate history and details the tax scandal that rocked KPMG US in 2005.

But the wikis are not just narrations of corporate news and history. The idea is to encourage employees from firms to update each wiki page with new and topical information on a firm: what is it like to work there, what pay is on offer and how does it compare to other firms?

The wiki aims to get right inside a firm through the people who work there and know it better than anyone else. A reader disagreeing with what one contributor says can offer a counterview. The wiki grows by contributors offering various perspectives.