Accountants consider swapping from practice to commerce
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Accountants consider swapping from practice to commerce

7y Kevin Reed , Writer

Accountants consider swapping from practice to com...

Accountants in industry and practice are considering changing discipline - but there are barriers to hurdle if you're thinking about the change, says ...

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Hayward Wright boosts management team with Wood promotion
Accounting Firms

Hayward Wright boosts management team with Wood promotion

7y Kevin Reed , Writer

Hayward Wright boosts management team with Wood pr...

Gareth Wood joins senior management team of Hayward Wright, as the Worcestershire firm looks to ramp up its growth plans Read More...

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Solicitors, not accountants, are best at delivering uncontested probate
People Practice

Solicitors, not accountants, are best at delivering uncontested probate

7y Accountancy Age

Solicitors, not accountants, are best at deliverin...

Sally Harlow responds to accountants who think they're best placed to deal with probate. She thinks its the lawyers who are top dogs, and explains why...

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Cowgill Holloway merges with Warings Business Advisers
Accounting Firms

Cowgill Holloway merges with Warings Business Advisers

7y Stephanie Wix , Writer

Cowgill Holloway merges with Warings Business Advi...

Cowgill Holloway and Warings Business Advisors have merged, with a range of growth plans in the North West put in place Read More...

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The Practitioner: Make time to fill in your timesheet, or...
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Make time to fill in your timesheet, or...

7y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: Make time to fill in your timesh...

The Practitioner discusses their timesheet militancy, and reaction to someone playing it fast and loose with the details... Read More...

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Friday Afternoon Live: HMRC's confidentiality breach; EY partner profits fall
Accounting Firms

Friday Afternoon Live: HMRC's confidentiality breach; EY partner profits fa...

7y Kevin Reed , Writer

Friday Afternoon Live: HMRC's confidentiality brea...

HMRC breaches client confidentiality; and partner profits fall at EY. These stories and more discussed in Friday Afternoon Live Read More...

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Colin: KPMG providing new partners with right Brexit tools
Accounting Firms

Colin: KPMG providing new partners with right Brexit tools

7y Stephanie Wix , Writer

Colin: KPMG providing new partners with right Brex...

Colin comments on the effect of Brexit on the influx of partners at KPMG Read More...

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Practices struggling to cope with 'significant cost' of tackling auto enrolment
Accounting Firms

Practices struggling to cope with 'significant cost' of tackling auto enrol...

7y Kevin Reed , Writer

Practices struggling to cope with 'significant cos...

Just one half of UK practices have implemented a pricing structure around auto enrolment implementation and advice - with many suffering increased cos...

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Friday Afternoon Live: The latest on Deloitte; Smith & Williamson; and BDO
Accounting Firms

Friday Afternoon Live: The latest on Deloitte; Smith & Williamson; and BDO

8y Kevin Reed , Writer

Friday Afternoon Live: The latest on Deloitte; Smi...

Deloitte's north-west Europe foray; BDO, Smith & Williamson investment paths; Shelley Stock Hutter; and Wilkins Kennedy discussed by editor Kevin ...

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BDO announces double-digit profit growth
Accounting Firms

BDO announces double-digit profit growth

8y Stephanie Wix , Writer

BDO announces double-digit profit growth

Double digit growth in profits for BDO Read More...

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Wilkins Kennedy joins Allinial Global but reaffirms IAPA relationship
Accounting Firms

Wilkins Kennedy joins Allinial Global but reaffirms IAPA relationship

8y Stephanie Wix , Writer

Wilkins Kennedy joins Allinial Global but reaffirm...

Top 20 firm Wilkins Kennedy has joined Allinial Global, an international association of independent accounting and consulting firms Read More...

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MAF opens new Birmingham office and appoints a new partner
Accounting Firms

MAF opens new Birmingham office and appoints a new partner

8y Stephanie Wix , Writer

MAF opens new Birmingham office and appoints a new...

Online accountancy firm, My Accountant Friend (MAF), has opened its latest office in Birmingham and recruited new partner, Richard Ingledew Read More...

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The Practitioner: There has to be a better way to recruit
Recruitment

The Practitioner: There has to be a better way to recruit

8y Accountancy Age , Reporters

The Practitioner: There has to be a better way to ...

The old fashioned method of placing recruitment adverts in the local rag is dead Read More...

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Offering value-added services to clients: Why, and how to? - Video
Accounting Firms

Offering value-added services to clients: Why, and how to? - Video

8y Kevin Reed , Writer

Offering value-added services to clients: Why, and...

How can advisers provide value-added services to clients profitably and securely? Bobby Lane, Carl Reader and Nick Dwan take Accountancy Age through t...

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PM+M opens new office in Bury
Accounting Firms

PM+M opens new office in Bury

8y Richard Crump , Writer

PM+M opens new office in Bury

PM+M has expanded its group network and opened a new full time office in Bury Read More...

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Menzies reports 20% increase in fee income to £40m
Accounting Firms

Menzies reports 20% increase in fee income to £40m

8y Richard Crump , Writer

Menzies reports 20% increase in fee income to £40m

Following the merger with Harris Lipman in July 2015 the firm’s 2015-16 financial figures reveal Menzies has hit £40m for the first time, a 20% increa...

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The Practitioner: You get what you PAYE for
Personal Tax

The Practitioner: You get what you PAYE for

8y The Practitioner

The Practitioner: You get what you PAYE for

I will feel slightly awkward when I write to the client who is about to receive a large invoice from the PAYE expert, offering him the fee protection ...

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What accountancy firms can learn from the gaming industry
Accounting Software

What accountancy firms can learn from the gaming industry

8y Accountancy Age

What accountancy firms can learn from the gaming i...

Accounting software could do well to mimic the traits and qualities of the gaming industry Read More...

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Duncan & Toplis beefs up probate team with legal sector hire
Accounting Firms

Duncan & Toplis beefs up probate team with legal sector hire

8y Richard Crump , Writer

Duncan & Toplis beefs up probate team with leg...

A solicitor with more than three decades’ experience is bringing his skills to the probate team at chartered accountants Duncan & Toplis Read More...

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Friday Afternoon Live: We discuss HMRC's adviser 'service standards'
Accounting Firms

Friday Afternoon Live: We discuss HMRC's adviser 'service standards'

8y Kevin Reed , Writer

Friday Afternoon Live: We discuss HMRC's adviser '...

Head of editorial Kevin Reed talks about HMRC's so-called 'service standards for tax advisers'; Concerns over Companies House's plans to purge its dat...

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Top ten firms revealed in the 2016 Best Employer Survey
Accounting Firms

Top ten firms revealed in the 2016 Best Employer Survey

8y Kevin Reed , Writer

Top ten firms revealed in the 2016 Best Employer S...

Accountancy Age reveals the firms that have reached our Best Employer grade for 2016 - and have made the shortlist for the overall Best Employer Award...

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The Practitioner: The Blame Game
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: The Blame Game

8y Richard Crump , Writer

The Practitioner: The Blame Game

Last week, the Practitioner opened an email from a large, high maintenance, client and was left speechless Read More...

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Private equity platform HgCapital acquires Blick Rothenberg
Accounting Firms

Private equity platform HgCapital acquires Blick Rothenberg

8y Richard Crump , Writer

Private equity platform HgCapital acquires Blick R...

Under the deal, Blick Rothernberg will sit within HgCapital’s Services sector but will retain its name and way of doing business Read More...

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How accountancy firms are responding to Brexit
Accounting Firms

How accountancy firms are responding to Brexit

8y Accountancy Age

How accountancy firms are responding to Brexit

Most firms set up ‘emergency’ Brexit task forces within hours of the ‘leave’ result announcement, but how are they responding now? Read More...

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2020 Vision: What accountants in practice can learn from Pokemon Go
Technology

2020 Vision: What accountants in practice can learn from Pokemon Go

8y Accountancy Age

2020 Vision: What accountants in practice can lear...

So for anyone dismissing Pokemon, and in fact any developments in modern culture - I’d respectfully suggest pulling your head out of where the sun doe...

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The Practitioner: Voting 'Out'
Accounting Firms

The Practitioner: Voting 'Out'

8y Richard Crump , Writer

The Practitioner: Voting 'Out'

Since the vote, as I suspected would be the case, life goes on for all my clients. Read More...

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British Accountancy Awards entry deadline extended
Accounting Firms

British Accountancy Awards entry deadline extended

8y Kevin Reed , Writer

British Accountancy Awards entry deadline extended

For those still considering whether to enter British Accountancy Awards, a further two weeks to take part have been given – with 29 July the final dat...

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