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KPMG in talks over PRIME-style work experience scheme for accountants

KPMG enters into talks with founders of legal social mobility venture, which could see the Big Four firm forge an equivalent model for the accountancy profession

11 Jan 2013

FDs fear losing key staff

Robert Half survey outlines staff fears of finance directors

30 Aug 2012

Choices

#AAYP: A world of opportunities

Despite tough business conditions, the draw of accountancy has never been so strong

23 Feb 2012

#AAYP: Generation Y's great expectations

The next generation of accountants expect much more from their employers, writes Rachel Fielding

23 Feb 2012

KPMG announces apprentice scheme for fraud investigators

Big Four accountant annnounces three-year apprentice scheme in its risk-consulting division

09 Feb 2012

Government-backed accounting apprenticeship launched

Consortium of accounting bodies win government bid to provide thousands of apprenticeship roles

02 Dec 2011

PwC presents recruitment options to careers advisors

Big Four firm meets careers advisors to highlight options available to students

12 Oct 2011

Leadership and commerce focus in new CIPFA syllabus

CIPFA introduces "significant changes" to its syllabus

12 Oct 2011

Big Four trainees – children of the crisis?

Big Four trainees now focus more on risk due to the credit crunch, but will this generate industry-wide change or is it just lip service?

08 Jul 2011

Accountancy students broaden skills

Accountancy students may be developing a wider skill set in response to changing demands following the credit crisis

20 Jun 2011

The Practitioner: Left in the lurch - who's making the coffee?

Trainees. It is holiday season in the office and also student study leave season. Throw in a couple of bank holidays and a couple of sick days and there is virtually nobody in the office except the cleaner and a couple of clients!

19 May 2011

The Genesis of leadership

Training future practice leaders is widely overlooked. But PwC’s approach could be a lesson in how to ensure the right people are coming through

20 Apr 2011

KPMG to pay school leavers' uni tuition fees

Big Four firm announces degree programme in partnership with Durham University and ICAEW

14 Jan 2011

CPD: positive development

Once seen as a necessary evil, continuing your professional development is now an effective way to invest in your future

20 Oct 2010

Getting a foot in the door...

14 Oct 2010

PwC receives 800 applicants for 60 posts

Students skipping university to go to work

24 Aug 2010

Awareness drive needed to promote qualified accountants

UK200 Group wants institutes to do more to promote their members as true professionals

30 Jul 2010

AXA UK signs up Jean Drouffe as FD

Jean Drouffe promoted to finance director reporting directly to chief executive Nicolas Moreau

16 Jul 2010

Economic confidence fades among CFOs

Confidence is falling but job market holding steady

29 Jun 2010

E&Y partner leaves for FD of Yorkshire Water

Former audit partner Liz Barber leaves the Big Four Firm after 23 years to take up a finance director role

01 Jun 2010

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Profession reaches end of its tether with PAC

After the Public Accounts Committee's latest hearing - in which it heavily criticised Google's tax affairs - many advisers have had enough

#AAYP 2013: Talent is ageless, but youth unemployment is a problem

The principles of developing future leaders apply whether you've just left school or got years of experience under your belt

To quota or not to quota: that is the problem

Women on board quotas may have a bad rep, but it’s the only way to address inherent bias argues Fiona Hotston Moore

CABA's Wendy Saunders and CEO Kath Haines

Feature: Inside the Chartered Accountants' Benevolent Association

After seeing a 70% rise in demand, Calum Fuller visited the Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association to learn more about its efforts to provide support

Success of FRS 102 needs to be replicated on going concern

The consultation process for FRS 102 was arguably the most wide-ranging the FRC has ever conducted. It should apply the same rigour to going concern

Colin: Colin was here

Colin loves to be the centre of attention, as the Sky News Twitter account can testify

Taking Stock: Life in the slow lane

It was less Wacky Races and more Sunday driving as a team from Reeves helped raise £15,000 for charity as part of a race to Monaco

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Briefings

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Why budgeting fails: One management system is not enough

If budgeting is to have any value at all, it needs a radical overhaul. In today's dynamic marketplace, budgeting can no longer serve as a company's only management system; it must integrate with and support dedicated strategy management systems, process improvement systems, and the like. In this paper, Professor Peter Horvath and Dr Ralf Sauter present what's wrong with the current approach to budgeting and how to fix it.

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iXBRL: Taking stock. Looking forward

In this white paper CCH provide checklists to help accountants and finance professionals both in practice and in business examine these issues and make plans. Also includes a case study of a large commercial organisation working through the first year of mandatory iXBRL filing.