Beat the office backstabbers with Young Professional

If you’ve ever had trouble with professional backstabbing in the office, then the February edition of Young Professional will make essential reading. The latest issue of Accountancy Age’s digital magazine for up and coming accountants looks at the tricky subject of office politics – how to avoid becoming a victim of it and how to make it work for you.

We also look into careers in the hospitality and leisure industry, talk to the finance director of Regis plc on becoming hot property and offer tips on improving your corporate image.

To view Young Professional go to www.accountancyage.com/yp

A Student’s Guide to International Financial Reporting Standards

What this book doesn’t tell you about accounting standards you probably don’t need to know.

Clare Finch has produced a remarkable book, extremely well written and concise which brings to life in full colour the otherwise drab subject of accounting standards. A quick review shows why this book is an ESSENTIAL for all students sitting accountancy exams to international financial reporting standards.

From the moment you pick it up you can sense that this is something different from traditional books on the same subject.

Firstly, the colour coded pages group standards on a ‘need to know’ basis. So whether you…

New March Polls

The following new polls are now running during March on the AccountancyStudents site - please cast your vote and have your say.

Homepage - Should there be a hierarchy of accountants as proposed by ICAEW?

Community - Which is your favourite part of the site?

Financial Reporting - Who should be the driving force behind reporting standards?

Taxation - Do you trust HMRC with your personal data?

IT - In your organisation do you envisage ever achieving the much promised ‘paperless office’?

Institutes embroiled in ‘scum of the earth’ hierarchy row

Small institutes are outraged by the ICAEW’s plans to create a hierarchy of accountants, which will have the CCAB at the top and the book-keepers at the bottom

The ICAEW wants to create a hierarchy of accountants, with the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies at the top and book-keepers at the bottom. The radical moves, which emerged in private papers published by accident on the institute’s website last week, have outraged smaller institutes.

The plan, part of moves to formally recognise the ‘accountant’ term, would see CCAB members top the league table, followed by financial accountants, accounting technicians and then…

‘Jihad on accountants’ man jailed

A man has been jailed for two years for sending dozens of letters to mosques around the UK urging their members to launch terror attacks on accountants.

Malcolm Hodges, 44, from Sittingbourne, Kent, bore a “festering grudge” against professional accountancy bodies more than a decade after he failed an exam. The Old Bailey heard he claimed in the letters, sent in November 2006, he was a follower of Osama bin Laden.

He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to recklessly encouraging terrorism. The court was told he wrote in the letters: “Brothers, you are right to kill the infidels but you are…