Accountancy Age Top 50+50 Rankings 2025 in partnership with Intuit QuickBooks
50+50

Accountancy Age Top 50+50 Rankings 2025 in partnership with Intuit QuickBoo...

2m Chira Amin

Accountancy Age Top 50+50 Rankings 2025 in partner...

Click here to view the full 50+50 List Celebrating excellence in accountancy practice, the Top 50+50 Accountancy Firms 2025. Firms listed in the table...

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Accountancy Age 50+50 Report 2025 in partnership with Intuit QuickBooks
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Accountancy Age 50+50 Report 2025 in partnership with Intuit QuickBooks

2m Chira Amin

Accountancy Age 50+50 Report 2025 in partnership w...

The Accountancy Age Top 50+50 Rankings Report 2025, produced in collaboration with Intuit QuickBooks, offers the most comprehensive, data-driven view ...

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The Agentic Leap: How QuickBooks’ AI Update Resets the Accounting Benchmark
Accounting Firms

The Agentic Leap: How QuickBooks’ AI Update Resets the Accounting Benchmark

2m Accountancy Age

The Agentic Leap: How QuickBooks’ AI Update Resets...

QuickBooks’ latest agentic AI updates mark a fundamental shift in cloud accounting, setting a new benchmark for data accuracy and automation across UK...

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Inside the £77.6m accounting failure at CTM
Audit

Inside the £77.6m accounting failure at CTM

2m nikita alexander

Inside the £77.6m accounting failure at CTM

The £77.6 million accounting error at Corporate Travel Management (CTM), which triggered an urgent government investigation, is a sobering case study ...

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FRS 102 is evolving - are you ready for the 2026 shock?
Accounting Standards

FRS 102 is evolving - are you ready for the 2026 shock?

2m nikita alexander

FRS 102 is evolving - are you ready for the 2026 s...

The mandatory FRS 102 changes effective from 2026 will drag most operating leases onto the balance sheet, fundamentally altering key financial ratios ...

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The accounting error that wiped out £600m overnight
Accounting Standards

The accounting error that wiped out £600m overnight

2m nikita alexander

The accounting error that wiped out £600m overnigh...

The FCA's inquiry into WH Smith's significant accounting error over revenue recognition is a wake-up call for all UK finance leaders. This analysis ex...

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Autumn Budget 2025: Briefing for UK Accountancy Firms
2025 Predictions

Autumn Budget 2025: Briefing for UK Accountancy Firms

2m Rafe Houston

Autumn Budget 2025: Briefing for UK Accountancy Fi...

The Autumn Budget 2025 entrenches a tax-led fiscal strategy, leveraging prolonged fiscal drag and structural reforms, most notably to salary sacrifice...

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The essential trinity: finance, IT, and data science
AI in Accounting

The essential trinity: finance, IT, and data science

2m Peter Spence, FCMA, CGMA, Associate Technical Director, at AICPA and CIMA

The essential trinity: finance, IT, and data scien...

Peter Spence, FCMA, CGMA, Associate Technical Director, at AICPA and CIMA explores how finance, IT, and data science have become the new trinity of va...

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Embedded Finance Moves from Add-On to Strategy: CFOs Target Growth and Control
Corporate Finance

Embedded Finance Moves from Add-On to Strategy: CFOs Target Growth and Cont...

2m Accountancy Age

Embedded Finance Moves from Add-On to Strategy: CF...

Embedded finance is no longer an optional add-on—it’s a board-level priority and a critical growth strategy for UK corporates. With 38% of C-suite lea...

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The Big Four are choosing profit over promotion
Big Four

The Big Four are choosing profit over promotion

3m nikita alexander

The Big Four are choosing profit over promotion

As Deloitte, PwC, and EY slash partner intakes to a five-year low, we analyse the strategic pivot to protect ‘PEP’and what the rise of the "salaried p...

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Unpacking the 35 Under 35 2025 Report
35 under 35

Unpacking the 35 Under 35 2025 Report

3m Accountancy Age

Unpacking the 35 Under 35 2025 Report

Welcome to the Accountancy Age 35 under 35 Report 2025 report, our annual spotlight on the young talent redefining the future of the UK profession, in...

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ACCA Secures FRC Director, Claire Lindridge, to Lead Policy and Insights
ACCA

ACCA Secures FRC Director, Claire Lindridge, to Lead Policy and Insights

3m Priscilla

ACCA Secures FRC Director, Claire Lindridge, to Le...

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), a global professional body with over 257,900 members and 530,100 future members across 180 ...

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ACCA Elects UK CFO Melanie Proffitt as New President, Vowing to Redefine Accountancy's Future
ACCA

ACCA Elects UK CFO Melanie Proffitt as New President, Vowing to Redefine Ac...

3m Accountancy Age

ACCA Elects UK CFO Melanie Proffitt as New Preside...

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the global professional body serving over 257,000 members and 530,000 future members across...

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Navigating the ethics and regulation of AI in audit
AI in Accounting

Navigating the ethics and regulation of AI in audit

3m nikita alexander

Navigating the ethics and regulation of AI in audi...

As UK firms deploy AI and Machine Learning for smarter risk assessment and anomaly detection, they face a regulatory tightrope. We examine the critica...

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Xeinadin Strengthens Manchester with Senior Hires to Tackle SME Audit and Insolvency Headwinds
Audit

Xeinadin Strengthens Manchester with Senior Hires to Tackle SME Audit and I...

3m Accountancy Age

Xeinadin Strengthens Manchester with Senior Hires ...

Xeinadin, the integrated business advisory and accountancy group, has cemented its commitment to the UK’s crucial SME sector with two high-profile app...

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The end of sampling? Why UK audit can embrace full-population testing
Audit

The end of sampling? Why UK audit can embrace full-population testing

3m nikita alexander

The end of sampling? Why UK audit can embrace full...

The reliance on statistical sampling is becoming an outdated risk in a data-rich world. UK audit firms must transition to full-population testing and ...

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Countdown to the Reeves budget and the hard choices ahead
Budget 2025

Countdown to the Reeves budget and the hard choices ahead

3m nikita alexander

Countdown to the Reeves budget and the hard choice...

As the £25bn fiscal 'black hole' forces Chancellor Rachel Reeves to eye major tax hikes, this analysis arms accountants with the essential strategic f...

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Nearly half of UK accountancy firms plan £100K AI investments next year
AI in Accounting

Nearly half of UK accountancy firms plan £100K AI investments next year

3m Nikita Alexander

Nearly half of UK accountancy firms plan £100K AI ...

UK accountancy firms are making a major capital commitment, with nearly half planning to invest up to £100,000 in AI over the next 12 months. New rese...

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Turning MTD compliance into proactive client strategy
Client Enagagement

Turning MTD compliance into proactive client strategy

3m Accountancy Age

Turning MTD compliance into proactive client strat...

Making Tax Digital (MTD) is not a burden; it’s an asset. Discover how the compliance mandate for digital record-keeping forces the creation of a clean...

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How Grant Thornton’s Training Move Reflects a Shift in Accounting Leadership
Big Four

How Grant Thornton’s Training Move Reflects a Shift in Accounting Leadershi...

3m Accountancy Age

How Grant Thornton’s Training Move Reflects a Shif...

The accounting profession is facing a leadership bottleneck. Grant Thornton’s partnership with Raise the Bar suggests the industry is beginning to tre...

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EY’s Pay Rise Reflects a Changing Partnership Economy
Accounting Firms

EY’s Pay Rise Reflects a Changing Partnership Economy

3m Accountancy Age

EY’s Pay Rise Reflects a Changing Partnership Econ...

EY’s latest results tell a familiar story of contrasts: modest revenue growth, a tougher market for consulting, and yet a near-double-digit rise in pa...

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Why Gen Z Is Walking Away from Accounting
Big Four

Why Gen Z Is Walking Away from Accounting

3m Accountancy Age

Why Gen Z Is Walking Away from Accounting

KPMG’s latest figures show a quarter of under-30s leaving financial services in the past year. That headline matters to accountancy because the driver...

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The road to MTD IT readiness and why it starts now
AI in Accounting

The road to MTD IT readiness and why it starts now

3m Rafe Houston

The road to MTD IT readiness and why it starts now

With the next phase of Making Tax Digital for Income Tax fast approaching, Xero’s UK Managing Director Kate Hayward argues that the shift isn’t just a...

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Event recap: The future of accounting - turning innovation into competitive advantage
Management

Event recap: The future of accounting - turning innovation into competitive...

3m Rafe Houston

Event recap: The future of accounting - turning in...

As client expectations evolve and the demand for fractional CFO services grows, firms are rethinking their role from compliance to strategy. In this A...

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Building trust in sustainability data starts from within
CSR

Building trust in sustainability data starts from within

4m Accountancy Age

Building trust in sustainability data starts from ...

The credibility of corporate sustainability rests on one foundation: reliable data. Without it, even the most ambitious environmental or social commit...

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The power of financial storytelling – transforming data into strategic insights
Business

The power of financial storytelling – transforming data into strategic insi...

4m Peter Spence, FCMA, CGMA, Associate Technical Director at AICPA and CIMA.

The power of financial storytelling – transforming...

As accounting and finance professionals, we’re trusted with the numbers that represent a business’s financial performance. While numbers are our comfo...

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Deliberate evolution at the ICAEW Annual Conference 2025
ICAEW Annual Conference 2025

Deliberate evolution at the ICAEW Annual Conference 2025

4m Accountancy Age

Deliberate evolution at the ICAEW Annual Conferenc...

At the ICAEW Annual Conference, discipline replaced disruption as the theme of the day. Speakers urged firms to modernise with care, focusing on struc...

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