Graduates: Consult carefully on jobs
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Graduates: Consult carefully on jobs

24y Accountancy Age

Graduates: Consult carefully on jobs

As firms rescind job offers and cut back on recruitment quotas, students must find alternative career paths. But will the big freeze have other reperc...

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Go chase that dream to win
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Go chase that dream to win

24y Accountancy Age

Go chase that dream to win

We all desire success at work. How to achieve it is the challenge. Read More...

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No Christmas cheer among drunk staff
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No Christmas cheer among drunk staff

24y Liz Loxton

No Christmas cheer among drunk staff

Far from promoting fellow feeling among colleagues, seasonal drinking is causing rowdy and even violent behaviour in UK plc, according to a survey fro...

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Study looks to change accounting image
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Study looks to change accounting image

24y Larry Schlesinger

Study looks to change accounting image

A study has launched to find out how the traditional image and delivery of accounting education can be transformed into an attractive proposition to n...

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AccountancyAge.com opens careers centre
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AccountancyAge.com opens careers centre

24y AccountancyAge.com

AccountancyAge.com opens careers centre

AccountancyAge.com this week launches a new careers centre featuring one of the most comprehensive databases of financial jobs available anywhere. Rea...

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UK accountants world's top earners
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UK accountants world's top earners

24y Michelle Perry

UK accountants world's top earners

Britain's accountants are the world's highest earners with an average annual income of Pounds 83,142, new research has revealed. Read More...

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Careers: Partnerships - Take your partners please
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Careers: Partnerships - Take your partners please

24y Accountancy Age

Careers: Partnerships - Take your partners please

Many of the big firms are weaving their way towards public ownership, but while an IPO can produce significant benefits for the partners, what does it...

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Treasury to probe 'false employment'
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Treasury to probe 'false employment'

24y our parliamentary staff

Treasury to probe 'false employment'

Self-employed subcontractors are bracing themselves for a new tax crackdown when the Treasury completes a review of employment status to be released e...

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News: Salary soundings survey
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News: Salary soundings survey

24y Accountancy Age

News: Salary soundings survey

Although salary negotiations are an area of much concern and confusion, a recent survey by Robert Half International Consulting (RHI Consulting) disco...

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Careers: public sector - Working in the public eye
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Careers: public sector - Working in the public eye

24y Accountancy Age

Careers: public sector - Working in the public eye

The Government's commitment to public services means the sector can be seen as a safe haven for consultants. But it is not immune to recessionary-or b...

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The charmed lives of Oxford & Cambridge
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The charmed lives of Oxford & Cambridge

24y Accountancy Age

The charmed lives of Oxford & Cambridge

Like public schools, colleges at Oxford and Cambridge have led charmed lives. Inquiries have come and gone but on they sail, bastions of privilege - a...

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Key issues in involuntary dismissals
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Key issues in involuntary dismissals

24y AccountancyAge.com

Key issues in involuntary dismissals

This summary is designed to highlight the key legal issues and to flag up a few warning signs that a well-advised employer or employee should watch ou...

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Are FD pay rises obscene?
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Are FD pay rises obscene?

24y Accountancy Age

Are FD pay rises obscene?

Publication of the latest salary survey from our sister title Financial Director will provoke the usual round of outrage about fat cat pay tempered by...

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Handling of ILAs a 'catastophe'
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Handling of ILAs a 'catastophe'

24y Accountancy Age

Handling of ILAs a 'catastophe'

Conservative education spokesman Damian Green has repeated calls for the ongoing Individual Learning Account (ILA) crisis to be investigated by the Pu...

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Six FDs make it into £1m big league
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Six FDs make it into £1m big league

24y Andrew Sawers

Six FDs make it into £1m big league

Big bonuses have taken six FTSE-100 FDs into the million-pound-a-year bracket, according to the fifth annual pay survey by Financial Director magazine...

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CAs to help growth in Wales
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CAs to help growth in Wales

24y Michelle Perry

CAs to help growth in Wales

Ongoing inward investment and organic growth in Wales will form the basis for a 'fruitful partnership' between Welsh businesses and accountants, a gat...

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Chancellor to encourage IT training
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Chancellor to encourage IT training

24y Accountancy Age

Chancellor to encourage IT training

The chancellor has announced that he will introduce tax breaks for employers that provide training, with IT skills being recognised as crucial to Brit...

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Headstart: Management - Lights, camera, action.
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Headstart: Management - Lights, camera, action.

24y Philip Smith.

Headstart: Management - Lights, camera, action.

As a crop of blockbusters head for our cinemas, Philip Smith checks the web for Harry, Frodo and friends Read More...

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Headstart: Management - A Week In The Life.
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Headstart: Management - A Week In The Life.

24y Accountancy Age

Headstart: Management - A Week In The Life.

Neil Quarendon is director of finance and operations at Alexander Lloyd, one of the South East’s leading independent accountancy and insurance r...

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EC to debate tax breaks for training
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EC to debate tax breaks for training

24y Accountancy Age

EC to debate tax breaks for training

The proposals for tax incentives are one of six proposals that the EC has made for improving training across Europe. Read More...

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Ten hot tips for Excel users
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Ten hot tips for Excel users

24y AccountancyAge.com

Ten hot tips for Excel users

Excel is one of those office tools that appears to have endless mathematical functions which you don't imagine you'll ever get to use. It is however a...

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For & Against: The great waving wages debate
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For & Against: The great waving wages debate

24y Accountancy Age

For & Against: The great waving wages debate

Were the FD and CEO at Regus right to waive their wages during troubled times? Neil Chisman says they have sent out the right message, but Peter Willi...

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Profession undervalues fairer sex
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Profession undervalues fairer sex

24y Adriana Zea

Profession undervalues fairer sex

Top female accountants are paid one third less than their male counterparts, according to a recent study by the wealth management arm of Barclays. Rea...

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Future bosses prefer to stay at home
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Future bosses prefer to stay at home

24y Larry Schlesinger

Future bosses prefer to stay at home

Four-fifths of 'affluentials', those individuals destined to command UK businesses in the future, would give it all up tomorrow if they could afford t...

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ACCA to launch MBA in January
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ACCA to launch MBA in January

24y Adriana Zea

ACCA to launch MBA in January

ACCA is currently developing an MBA programme with Oxford Brookes University which will be open to qualified accountants from January. Read More...

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LETTERS - Speculation over NTOs is misleading.
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LETTERS - Speculation over NTOs is misleading.

24y Accountancy Age

LETTERS - Speculation over NTOs is misleading.

Speculative comments have been made in certain parts of the media about Accountancy National Training Organisation’s future, following recent ev...

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FDs' emphatic 'no' to domestic perks
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FDs' emphatic 'no' to domestic perks

25y Adriana Zea

FDs' emphatic 'no' to domestic perks

Most finance directors firmly deny companies should provide their staff with special perks according to this week's Accountancy Age/Reed Accountancy P...

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