Entrepreneurial accountant Ross Boyd, who is currently headquartered in Belfast, has announced an expansion of his firm’s technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) services into Scotland with a new operation based in Glasgow

EY achieved UK fee income growth of 2.7% in the financial year ending 30 June 2018, up from £2.35bn to £2.41bn with a five year compound annual growth rate of 7%, the firm has reported

As banks face new legislations, there has been a significant rise in technical and specialist accounting roles, especially in areas such as IFRS 9 and 15, explain Thomas Garbett, team leader, and James Polley, senior consultant at Morgan McKinley

PwC has launched a platform to help individuals of Chinese heritage reach the top of UK business, with founding partner Standard Chartered, saying the aim is to address an underrepresentation of individuals of Chinese heritage in senior leadership roles

Identifying, understanding and managing potential risks is a key responsibility of charity trustees and should be integral to business planning, says Fiona Condron, partner at BDO

The number of millennial directors of SMEs in the UK has increased by more than a third in a year, with ‘generation start-up’ helped by lower costs of entry including the rise of shared workspace and cloud computing, research from Moore Stephens shows

With businesses embracing big data, new tech and digital media, the role of traditional CFO is evolving from financial expert to strategic partner, data analyst, talent curator and more. James Booth, chief financial officer at Instant Offices explains what this new era of the multidiscipline strategist means

With 22% of accountants believing that a quarter of the profession have helped clients create misleading accounts, an enforceable code of ethics must be introduced to stop further corporate scandals, says Simon Wright, managing director of CareersinAudit.com

Julie Norris, partner at Kingsley Napley LLP, discusses sexual harassment in the workplace and firms’ regulatory obligations and calls for better #metoo related guidance from accounting regulators

A year ago, Croner-i was acquired by Peninsula Group – and in just 12 months, the company has gone from strength to strength. CEO Bertrand Stern-Gillet talks about what Croner-i has been up to, the new Navigate Tax service, and how the company has adjusted to major changes while making significant investments in technology, infrastructure and resources

Grant Thornton has announced that current CEO Sacha Romanovitch is to step down later this year following the identification of a successor, after she decided to not stand for re-election for a second term

KPMG is one of the first signatories of a new race at work charter launched by the Prime Minister as part of the government’s push to drive forward a step-change in the recruitment and progression of ethnic minority employees, which also includes proposals for mandatory pay gap reporting