Accountancy Age reports that of this year’s top 50 firms, 39 (78%) have seen their growth rates squashed and nine saw their revenues decline. Only nine saw their growth rate increased. 3,000 jobs in the top 50 firms were lost. In the next 50 firms, almost half had growth rates Read More
Accountancy Age magazine carried the following story yesterday: “PwC says business services sector will emerge in the best shape following the recession Accountants, lawyers and property management companies will be among those to benefit early from an economic recovery, a PricewaterhouseCoopers index has found. Firms in the business services sector, Read More
Accountancy Age magazine carried the following story yesterday: “PwC says business services sector will emerge in the best shape following the recession Accountants, lawyers and property management companies will be among those to benefit early from an economic recovery, a PricewaterhouseCoopers index has found. Firms in the business services sector, Read More
Oh dear. In the same edition of a London newspaper today there were two stories highlighting the pricing problems in the professions. In one article, a chain of estate agents had sent out a mailer to home owners in the wealthy areas of Central and Greater London to say that Read More
Last night I joined one of my long standing accountancy clients – haysmacintyre – when they hosted an informal dinner at the Institute of Directors for managing partners of small and medium sized law firms with speaker Phil Gott (www.philgott.com) talking on the subject of partner appraisals. It was a Read More