RSM is beefing up its creditor services business with a £100k plus investment, including substantial investment in products, people and premises, in anticipation of increasing activity as the UK economy comes under strain
Steve Varley, senior managing partner at EY, is stepping down as managing partner of the UK firm to take on a role as global vice chair for sustainability at the Big Four network
Accountancy, teaching and law are the most difficult professions to access without a university degree, with the cost of becoming a professional seen as a more significant barrier than ethnicity
The Financial Reporting Council is set for a complete overhaul this year and heavy criticism of the regulator has seen a purge of top management with fewer Big Four alumni in key positions
In this week’s accountancy career moves, interim CEO appointed at Chartered IIA, board director hired at PASA, KPMG announces chair for south region and promotions at Jeffreys Henry and Quantuma
As part of a major regional expansion, PwC has started moving staff into a new Midlands headquarters at One Chamberlain Square in Birmingham’s Paradise development
Half of the apprenticeships started by employers and universities since the launch of the government levy in April 2017 are ‘fake’, according to analysis by education think tank EDSK which says urgent reform is needed to ensure value for money
Mid-tier firm audit firm RSM has been forced to overhaul its executive team following the discovery of errors in the way in which it accounted for professional liability claims provisions going back several years
Heads of the UK’s biggest companies only need to work until the end of today in order to make the same amount of money that the typical full-time employee will in the entire year
As the Big Four audit firms come under continuing criticism over client conflict and lack of robust interrogation of client boards, the annual Accountancy Daily FTSE 100 Alumni Survey finds widespread representation by Big Four alumni at the highest levels of UK listed companies. Philip Smith reports
As research shows that the accountancy sector is in the bottom three when it comes to granting dads improved work-life balance, Daddilife’s Joe Flanagan offers six ways employers can help their staff be better dads and happier workers
