In this week’s accountancy career moves, partner appointment at Wilkins Kennedy, hires at Kilsby Williams, Quantuma and Wilkins Kennedy and an interim CFO at Fulcrum Utility Services

In our trainee series, Zak Jakubowski talks to Molly Tait and Matt Pollard, audit trainees at Mercer & Hole, about long working days and their ambitions to become ACA qualified 

A third of all board positions in FTSE 100 are now held by women, but female representation in senior executive roles is lagging with only 15% of finance directors at top UK companies being women

Succession planning is vital in any finance team where the future viability of a business can rest on a poor decision. Matt Weston, managing director of Robert Half UK, sets out the key steps

Five months into his job as head of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), Sir Jon Thompson sets out his vision for the future of the audit regulator, the challenges of reforming the market from joint audits to splitting up the Big Four and the timetable for the new Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority (ARGA). Sara White reports

John Baldwin, founding director of acquisition-hungry Midlands firm Baldwins Group, now part of the Cogital Group, has left the firm with immediate effect, and has been replaced by Alyn North 

In this week’s accountancy career moves, associate partner at EY, hires at Armstrong Watson and Mazars, CFO at FinnCap Group plc and new Chancellor in Cabinet reshuffle

Accountancy firm Dow Schofield Watts has made a seven-figure investment in Camlee Group, a Manchester-based corporate finance boutique which provides business sales advice to SMEs, in bid to grow the business nationally

Nearly one in five (18%) Brits have had sex on their lunch break, although accountants are the least likely to have time for a lunchtime dalliance and prefer to have a work spouse

Melissa Dube, audit trainee at BDO, talks to Zak Jakubowski about her decision to take the apprenticeship route to ACA qualification rather than a degree in mathematics and finance

Revenue at the UK’s top accounting firms is on a growth trajectory with 7% growth as income exceeds £16.8bn but stronger profitability and rising staff numbers has resulted in a decline in partner numbers as the fee to partner ratio has risen, reports Philip Smith

In this week’s accountancy career moves, partner appointments at BDO, Kreston and Mazars, and climate change lead for Deloitte

In our trainee series, Zak Jakubowski talks to Travis Martin, tax trainee at HW Fisher, about his three-year training contract and ambition to achieve chartered tax adviser status

EY is the first Big Four firm committed to going carbon neutral within less than a year by reducing and offsetting its carbon emissions

A decade since the financial crash, the top 25 accountancy firms look rather different to their pre-2009 counterparts, except for the ever expanding Big Four. Philip Smith assesses the cataclysmic changes of the last 10 years, with revenue comparisons