Economic and political pessimism among 17-36 year-olds is widespread, and businesses need to do more to keep the younger generation engaged with the workplace as only half plan to stay with employers for maximum two years, Deloitte research has found

Thomas Hulme, cryptoasset specialist at law firm Mackrell Turner Garrett, examines the rules of insolvency and cryptoassets, and how creditors can recover money from an insolvent person or business’s digital wallet

In this week’s accountancy career news, director promotions at Milsted Langdon, hires at Thorne Widgery, Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and Centage, and CMI recognition for FRC board member

The UK’s top business leaders at FTSE 100 companies are still most likely to come from a finance background rather than any other sector, but diversity and gender representation has worsened

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) is calling for a root and branch review of the PAYE system to make it easier for tax agents to view data on their small business clients held by HMRC, while it also needs to pay more attention to the needs of small business when developing new IT systems, reports Pat Sweet

As exam season starts for thousands of accountancy students across the country, Jessica French, learning & development manager at CABA, shares tips and advice on how to prepare and cope with the emotional rollercoaster

The world of accounting and finance can hold multiple sources of stress, from year-end and regulatory reporting changes to new business demands. Matt Weston, managing director of Robert Half UK looks at ways to reduce stress across finance teams

Cloud accounting software provider Xero has reported a 36% hike in operating revenue to NZ $552.8m (£283m) for the 2019 financial year and signed a record 151,000 new users in the UK

The government’s independent airline insolvency review, set up in the wake of the collapse of Monarch Airlines in 2017, has recommended developing a special administration regime (SAR) to keeping aircraft flying in order to repatriate travellers, but has run into industry opposition

The UK’s top CFO’s are implementing risk aversion strategies in the face of continued Brexit uncertainty over the year ahead, with  almost all believing that the prospect of widely unanticipated surprise events is a rapidly growing concern for their company, a poll of senior finance executives has found

FTSE 100 asset management company Standard Life Aberdeen has seen a significant shareholder revolt over its planned pay package for Stephanie Bruce, a former PwC partner due to join as its new chief financial officer (CFO) next month, with 42% voting against the remuneration report in one of the largest such AGM protests to date

The former CFO of Autonomy, Sushovan Hussain, has been given a prison sentence and $4m (£3m) fine by a US court over claims of fraud relating to the £8.5bn sale of the UK software company to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011