In this week’s career moves, partner promotions and hires at AAB, Grant Thornton, Forvis Mazars, Prime Accountants Group, Quantify Advisors, Simmons Gainsford, Azets, AAT, ITV

Top 10 firm Forvis Mazars opens new Birmingham office at Three Chamberlain Square, steps from their existing building, as growing staff numbers mark continued growth across the Midlands

Jonathan Barber, executive director - UK of the Institute of Financial Accountants gives his take on the year ahead from the impact of accountants increasingly hyper-specialising to acute shortages of skilled staff to worries about lack of guardrails in a world of seemingly unregulated AI