What do young accountancy recruits want from their employers?
Accountancy training firm First Intuition recently surveyed its students to find out what young adults want when it comes to looking for, choosing, and staying in a role.
Rent to Home ballot success ‘like winning the lottery’
A winner in The Cambridge Building Society’s unique rent-return initiative has described their ‘Rent to Home’ ballot success ‘like winning the lottery’. Their win means they’ll get up to 70% of their rent back at the end of their tenancy to use as a deposit to buy their first home.
Bango reports latest interim results
Bango, the global platform for data-driven commerce, announces its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2023.
First Intuition becomes the first training provider signatory of charity Access Accountancy
First Intuition is the first accountancy training provider to become a signatory of Access Accountancy.
Career change - a setback or an opportunity?
Career change can be seen as a setback and at the same time it can also be an incredible opportunity to re-evaluate what it is you really want from your career. There are several reasons why you might be facing a career change – you may have been laid off, or you might feel unhappy in your current role, or perhaps you simply want to do something new.
Cambridge Index falls 0.9%
The Cambridge Index dropped 144.17 points or 0.9% to close at 15773.0, as four of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly losses in their share prices.
Business and Trade Secretary signs landmark first partnership with EU nation to boost British exports
Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch signs UK-Italy export and investment partnership boosting UK exports, help create jobs, increase wages and grow the economy.
Weathering the inflation storm – the importance of a well-balanced and diversified portfolio
Just as a sudden squall can blow a ship off course, inflation can rapidly alter the direction of your investments.
Cambridge Index climbs 7.4%
The Cambridge Index advanced 1,092.93 points or 7.4% to close at 15917.2, as six of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly gains in their share prices.
Essential building blocks for business success from founder of Axiom-e
Last term, Ken Dickson, the founder of Axiom-e, ran three versions of 'The Pillars of Business Success' course to audiences drawn from more than 20 countries. His first talk of this term will be at the Quadram Institute, a state-of-the-art facility for bioscience and clinical research, and endoscopy, based at the Norwich Research Park
What connects the world’s first wheelchair toddler with a world-famous Cambridge scientist?
What connects the world’s first wheelchair toddler with a world-famous Cambridge scientist?
PEM welcomes new Audit Partner
PEM, Cambridge’s largest independent firm of accountants, tax and business advisers, welcomes Adam Smith as he joins as a Partner in their Audit team.
One-in-three people with streaming subscriptions share accounts with other households
Deloitte estimates that 35% of people with access to a subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) service are sharing at least one of their subscriptions with other households; One-in-four users (25%) are sharing the cost of an SVOD platform they use, rising to 34% for 16-24 year-olds; More than half (57%) of respondents who share a paid SVOD service say they would stop using the service if…
Why markets don’t anticipate prolific acquirers
Conventional wisdom holds that as serial acquirers acquire more firms they earn lower and lower returns as the market can spot them a mile away. Yet some acquirers don’t follow this pattern, but instead earn persistently higher returns in subsequent acquisitions. This poses a puzzle: why does the market not anticipate and punish these ‘extraordinary’ acquirers?
Five ways to combat new job nerves when you hire
Studies show that 80% of people are nervous before starting a new job. Having spent time and money on the recruitment process, you'll want to make sure your new employees have a smooth onboarding process and hit the ground running as soon as possible.
Finance students can capitalise on CISI link-up
ARU enters partnership with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
Apply now: funding for new equipment for community meeting spaces and sports centres
Cambridge community groups and sports clubs can apply for grants of between £5,000 and £30,000 to fund improvements to equipment or storage facilities at venues in Cambridge.
Cambridge Index falls 0.2%
The Cambridge Index declined 22.4 points or 0.2% to close at 14,824.3, as four out of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly losses in their share prices.
Financial planning with Investment Trusts
In 1868, Queen Victoria sat on the British throne, but she was not yet Empress of India. Most homes were still lit by candlelight, as the light bulb hadn’t been invented.
Yellow Submarine names new Sales & Marketing Director
Yellow Submarine has appointed Stewart Huckett to the role of Sales & Marketing Director. Stewart will be responsible for the expansion of business globally.
PEM’s Managing Partner celebrates 30 years with the firm
PEM are celebrating the milestone of Managing Partner, Warren Tilbury’s 30 years of service to the firm.
Cambridge Index drops 4.8%
The Cambridge Index declined 749.46 points or 4.8% to close at 14,846.7, as eight out of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly losses in their share prices.
Cambridge Index drops 2.0%
The Cambridge Index declined 313.46 points or 2.0% to close at 15596.2, as four out of the top ten index heavyweights posted weekly losses in their share prices.
PEM welcome record intake of new trainees
PEM, Cambridge’s largest independent firm of accountants, tax and business advisers, have recruited a record number of 24 trainees to its student training programme taking the total number of employees at the firm to nearly 250.
Cambridge MP joins Cambridge kids doing keepy-uppys to back Marcus Rashford's campaign for holiday food
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner will join children from St Matthew's school tomorrow doing keepy-uppys to highlight Marcus Rashford's campaign for school food and activities during the holidays.