Week ending 10 August 2012

Former PwC tax manager Jon Sparkes has moved to Bishop Fleming. Sparkes was at the Big Four firm for nine years but will be senior tax manager at the Plymouth-based independent firm.

Jeremy Eastham has been recruited as finance director at e-FM Network. Specialising in providing accounting services to SMEs, Eastham was most recently director of Eastham Bookkeeping and Accountancy Services.

CCH has appointed Helen Lloyd ACA as senior technical editor (audit and accounts) bringing a wealth of experience in dealing with technical issues from her time at Deloitte, BDO and on a secondment to the Accounting Standards Board (ASB), where she was a project director on the Future of UK GAAP project.

Donald MacKechnie and David Hare have joined Deloitte as partners, expanding the Big Four firm's Scottish presence. Mackechnie leaves Lloyds Banking Group, while Hare joins from Standard Life. Jamie Partridge has been promoted to partner in the asset management team.

Forensic accountants, RGL Forensics has appointed Ben Hobby FCA Dip CII as director. Beginning his career as a trainee at Arthur Andersen, Hobby has held internal auditor positions at Pace and Grampian Country Food Group.

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