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The ACCA Blog

  • Just a bunch of accountants?
    By Ian Welch, head of policy, ACCA The half-jokey jibe at the profession which UK Prime Minister David Cameron made recently, when he said he did not want his government being just 'seen as a bunch of accountants' has upset some of the professional b…
    Published - 7 days ago, 14 May 12, 3:09pm
  • How do you juggle the Olympics and your ACCA exams?
    By Ed McKeever, ACCA student and Team GB Olympic hopeful It’s been a couple of months since my last blog so I’ll start with the important stuff. Last weekend at the National Canoeing Championships in Nottingham I won the K1 (kayak single) 200m ra…
    Published - 24 days ago, 27 Apr 12, 10:57am
  • Accountants as project managers
    By Jamie Lyon, head of corporate sector, ACCA Increasingly many roles and activities in the finance function are becoming more project-orientated. This is a reflection of the important role finance plays across the business and its engagement across…
    Published - 34 days ago, 17 Apr 12, 10:06am
  • Welcome to your career in accountancy
    ACCA student Ali Ryder from Ensors Chartered Accountants guides new accountancy trainees through the early stages of their accountancy career… Every year accountancy firms take on a new intake of trainee accountants. If you are one of them, congrat…
    Published - 41 days ago, 10 Apr 12, 1:27pm
  • National Loan Guarantee Scheme: An impact assessment Q&A
    Manos Schizas, Senior SME Policy Adviser, ACCA Will the NLGS encourage any lenders that were previously put off by the high cost of capital? Probably not in the short term, unless the UK banks come to be seen as undercapitalised – in which case, ho…
    Published - 53 days ago, 29 Mar 12, 8:00am
  • Budget 2012 member perspectives: a budget for working people

    Published - 54 days ago, 28 Mar 12, 8:54am
  • Budget 2012 member perspectives: a budget for (small) business?
    By Alan Woods FCCA, Woods Squared This year, we’ve asked some of our members to share with us their thoughts on the budget: how it affects them and how it affects the businesses with which they work. Their views are their own. Today’s first post…
    Published - 54 days ago, 28 Mar 12, 8:30am
  • Budget 2012 member perspectives: more ambition needed?
    By Tony Down, chartered certified accountant This year, we’ve asked some of our members to share with us their thoughts on the budget: how it affects them and how it affects the businesses with which they work. Their views are their own. Today’s…
    Published - 59 days ago, 23 Mar 12, 12:11pm
  • Budget Explained: Finance help for small business
    By ACCA’s budget team On 20 March 2012 the government launched the National Loan Guarantee Scheme (NGLS) aimed at helping smaller businesses in the UK access cheaper finance. The scheme allows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with an annua…
    Published - 59 days ago, 23 Mar 12, 10:17am
  • Budget Explained: Capital Allowances
    By ACCA’s budget team With the government keen to stimulate business, it was somewhat surprising to see a reduction in the main rates of capital allowances and the annual investment allowance limit with effect from 1 April 2012 for companies and fr…
    Published - 59 days ago, 23 Mar 12, 10:10am

ICAEW - Moorgate Place

  • The many hats of the FD
    Today Chartered Accountants’ Hall is hosting the ICAEW Finance Directors’ Conference. It’s themed around the many hats an FD has to wear, because of more open business cultures, a faster pace of...
    Published - 5 days ago, 16 May 12, 8:09am
  • Aligning your finance function – today’s needs and tomorrow’s opportunities
    Some of ICAEW’s directors and I have been meeting in recent weeks with leading CFOs, accountants in business and academics to discuss our recent report, The Finance Function: A Framework for Analysi...
    Published - 5 days ago, 16 May 12, 6:00am
  • Child Benefit: disaster waiting to happen
    We briefed MPs on changes to Child Benefit announced in the UK budget a few weeks ago, and yesterday this made headlines.    We think that the proposed changes to child benefit are a p...
    Published - 6 days ago, 15 May 12, 10:03am
  • Time to put Eurozone Contingency Plans in Place
    We have just published an ICAEW report on The Impact of the Eurozone Crisis on UK Business. While this is a survey of our members based here in Britain the lessons apply to businesses across the Eur...
    Published - 6 days ago, 15 May 12, 8:40am
  • 2011: A year of growth for ICAEW
    We have just published the ICAEW Annual Review for 2011, and as you will see the headlines are positive. Member and student numbers are up and income has grown, despite a tough economic backdrop in ...
    Published - 7 days ago, 14 May 12, 12:27pm
  • Major changes to the UK’s business landscape?
    Two bills were announced in the Queen’s speech last week that will make major changes to the UK’s banking and business landscape. The Banking Reform Bill will split retail and investing ban...
    Published - 7 days ago, 14 May 12, 10:13am
  • Setting the Prime Minister right
    David Cameron’s remarks in Monday’s Daily Telegraph that he doesn’t want the coalition to be seen as just another “bunch of accountants” are uninformed and ill judged. In my view, he fails t...
    Published - 13 days ago, 8 May 12, 12:20pm
  • Upturn in Business Confidence
    Business confidence is up and GDP growth could be back to 0.6%, but 2012 continues to look like a year of uncertainty for the UK economy. The latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton Business Confidenc...
    Published - 13 days ago, 8 May 12, 9:36am
  • UK recession figures predicted by BCM research
    The depressing weather today was further compounded by the fact that GDP had fallen in Q1 and that we are technically in recession.   Some economists have doubted the severity of the declin...
    Published - 25 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 5:03pm
  • Breaking up the FSA – what the Financial Services Bill means for financial regulation
    The Financial Services Bill, which breaks-up the Financial Services Authority, has been keeping us busy at ICAEW. With around 25,000 of our members working in Financial Services, and with ...
    Published - 26 days ago, 25 Apr 12, 7:00am

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