PwC has taken a leap into the sporting world signing a partnership with British Athletics to improve how the Olympic and Paralympic world class programmes work with performance data and analytics in a bid to increase the medals haul at next year’s Olympics

CIOT and ICAS have signed a strategic partnership and a launched a joint qualification in accountancy and tax, which will be available from September 2019

In this week’s accountancy career moves, managing partner appointment at Thomas Westcott, partner hires at Mazars and Grant Thornton, director hires at Johnston Carmichael and MHA Henderson Loggie, CFO for Elder and Float ramps up leadership team

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to replace human intervention for auditing processes and financial transactions will not remove the need for professional judgment, ICAEW warns

Haysmacintyre has appointed Jeremy Beard as the new managing partner of the firm, ranked at number 26 in the Accountancy Daily 2019 league table of firms with a revenue of £28.8m

PwC UK has announced a shake-up of the leadership of its core business divisions along with the promotion of 69 new equity partners from 1 July

There remain four companies in the FTSE 250 with all-male boards, and too many have a ‘one and done’ approach to increasing the proportion of women in senior leadership roles, according to the latest analysis from the independent review body backed by government

Staff at KPMG are 'embarrassed' and some even 'regret their decision to join' the Big Four firm, after the US regulator slammed the firm with a $50m fine for cheating in professional exams and massaging audit results to avoid regulator fallout

As younger accountancy practitioners start up new practices and turn to technology and automation to provide compliance services for SME clients, does it make sense to offer additional advisory services or is that a sure way to damage profitability? Keith Underwood, MD at Foulger Underwood looks at the figures  

The International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) has launched the eCode, a web-based tool that delivers the international code of ethics for professional accountants on a digital platform

Accountancy firm Cooper Parry has quit the PKF network in the UK after being part of the group for over five years

Scottish accountancy firm, Johnston Carmichael, is appointing a new CEO and chair on 1 August 2019 as part of the firm’s ongoing succession planning