Blog - February 2023

  • How Old Was The Youngest Chartered Accountant?

    Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    Lots of people do not decide what they want to do professionally until their mid-20s, while many change career paths in their 30s, 40, 50s and even 60s. However, one person has known exactly what she wanted to be since she was a young girl, which helped her become the youngest Chartered Accountant in the world. Grace Bayton holds the accolade as she was registered with the Charted Institute of ...

  • Preparing For An Accounting Interview

    Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    If you have the right skills and experience, or if you’ve been in touch with an accountancy recruitment agency , you may find yourself with a list of interviews lined up for a new job in accountancy, but before you can start on your first day at a new job, you'll have to master the interview first. Interviews are a normal part of job hunting and preparing for them can be difficult regardless of ...

  • Why Human Accountants Are Here To Stay

    Posted on Friday, February 10, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — No comments

    The use of increased technology in various parts of the economy has been a hot potato issue since the days of the Luddites . Not that the ideas have all been negative; far from destroying everyone’s jobs, the famous economist John Maynard Keynes envisaged a world in which we would all just work shorter hours and enjoy lots more leisure time - a view that turned out a touch optimistic. While there ...

  • How The Match King Inspired Forensic Accounting As We Know It

    Posted on Friday, February 3, 2023 by Lydia Sinclair — 1 comment

    The field of forensic accounting as we know it today is a relatively recent invention by accounting standards, having been established in the 1940s. Whilst such an important part of accounting today that forensic accounting jobs are a core component of the legitimacy of countless industries, the earliest investigation that could be considered forensic accounting was the case of infamous organised ...