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Lawyers report lower satisfaction rates than Accountants with their IT systems
December 14th, 2015
Accounting, Legal and Marketing Firms Elevate their Reliance on Technology, New CompTIA Research Reveals Information-intense professional services firms in accounting, law and marketing are increasing their reliance on technology solutions to meet their business objectives, new research from CompTIA, ...
What Accountants Can Expect in 2016
December 8th, 2015
Accounting is an industry that is undergoing so much change, largely sparked by vast advances in technology and we’re only going to see more of it in 2016. The question is, how prepared are you? The evolution of cloud accounting ...
Accountants need to become “strategic advisers”: RSM
November 18th, 2015
Accountants are faced with growing pressure to remain relevant or risk becoming “obsolete” in the face of the increasing proliferation of cloud-based and self-service accounting tools, according to accounting firm RSM. Under the Financial Services Reform Act 2001, accountants are ...
Big four accountants ‘quietly’ threatening mid-tier law firms
November 9th, 2015
The resurgence of mid-tier law firms is about to come under pressure from ‘intense competition’ from the big accountancy firms entering the legal market. A report published today by the Royal Bank of Scotland says mid-market law firms had ...
Number of accountants increased after financial crisis
October 27th, 2015
In the four years following the financial crisis, membership growth of global professional accounting organizations far outpaced all employment growth in most regions worldwide. According to a new report by the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), Nexus 1: The ...
Accountants have an important role to play in promoting Natural Accounting Capital
September 25th, 2015
In their latest joint paper dealing with the issue of Natural Capital Accounting (NCA), three leading professional, campaigning and business organisations say that the accountancy profession has an important role to play in promoting the concept of NCA among ...
7 Ways Accountants Provide Value to Their Clients
September 4th, 2015
“What am I getting for my money?” When you provide a service and expect people to pay you, it’s reasonable to expect they will ask this question. In most professions, establishing your worth is the value proposition. How do ...
Accountants will soon be competing directly with solicitor firms
July 30th, 2015
Acountants will soon be competing directly with solicitor firms ‘on every high street in the country’, according to a leading financial adviser to the legal sector. Ian Muirhead, chairman of Solicitors Independent Financial Advice, said he expects 750 accountancy ...
Thomson Reuters finds accountants lag behind in tech change
July 1st, 2015
Familiarity with technology is a setback for accountants, Thomson Reuters has found. The survey conducted by Digita – part of Thomson Reuters’ tax and accounting group – shows that 63% of accountants have not changed their software provider for five ...
FCA defends secondments with ‘Big Four’ accountants
June 4th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed how many staff were seconded to and from it from the ‘Big Four‘ accountancy firms Deloitte, KPMG, PwC and EY in 2014. Following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by sister publication Insurance Age, the ...
