Blog - February 2023

  • How Old Was The Youngest Chartered Accountant?

    Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2023 by Lydia SinclairNo 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 SinclairNo 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 SinclairNo 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 Sinclair1 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 ...