Accountancy Ageis an online trade publication foraccountantsand financial staff in theUnited Kingdom.After running from 1969 to 2011 with a circulation of over 60,000 in print,[2]it changed with effect from May 2011 to anonline-only publication.
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| Editor | Michael McCaw |
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| Former editors | Austin Clark, Emma Smith, Gavin Hinks, Beth McLoughlin, Damian Wild[1] |
| Staff writers | Tom Lemmon, Chris Jewers, Shannon Moyer, Leanna Reeves, Jeremy Chan |
| Categories | Accountancy,finance,tax,systems |
| First issue | 1969 |
| Company | Contentive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0001-4672 |
History
editAccountancy Agewas first published on 5 December 1969, byMichael Heseltine's companyHaymarket Publishing.[3]Haymarket later soldAccountancy AgeandComputingmagazineto become the mainstay journals of VNU Business Publications Ltd, which formed in 1980.[4]The parent company, Dutch media groupVNU,was acquired by a group of private equity firms in 2006, and renamed asThe Nielsen Company.They then sold the business publications division to venture capital group3i,which in February 2007 sold the UK company toIncisive Media.[5]
Incisive announced in April 2011 that the last print edition would be dated 21 April 2011.[6]
In 2015, Incisive soldAccountancy AgeandFinancial Directorto Contentive.[7]
Awards
editFrom 1995 to 2010 the magazine organised and hosted The Accountancy Age Awards for accountancy firms, individuals, teams, initiatives and software packages.[8][9]In 2011 these were succeeded by the British Accountancy Awards.[10]
The magazine has itself won various awards including a top 500 UK "Business Superbrand" in 2007[11]and the 2008 Award for "Editorial Team of the Year" from the Association of Online Publishers.[12]Liam Saunders' weekly cartoon "Colin"[13]won the Workworld Media Award for "Cartoonist of the Year" in 2003.[14]
Readership
editThe target audience isBritish qualified accountants.The AOP's editorial award case study refers to "senior figures atbig four firmsand in government swearing by the team’s newswires, live blogs, and multimedia industry coverage ",[12]and the website claims that it is considered the "independent voice of the profession".[15]
References
edit- ^Damian Wildat BusinessGreen
- ^"ABC Profile Certificate of Circulation"(PDF).Audit Bureau of Circulations.30 June 2004. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 4 May 2005.Retrieved13 January2014.
- ^First issue ofAccountancy Age[permanent dead link],5 Dec 1969
- ^Acquisition of VNU Business Publications LtdArchivedApril 30, 2009, at theWayback Machine,Incisive Media press release, 8 Feb 2007
- ^Incisive to buy VNU Business Publications,Daily Telegraph,February 6, 2007
- ^Incisive Media discontinues the print edition of Accountancy Age, Accountancy Age,15 Apr 2011
- ^Incisive Media has sold the Accountancy Age and Financial Director brands to Blenheim Chalcot and its portfolio company Contentive.
- ^Accountancy Age Awards: 2010 Awards
- ^"Companies House wins Awards: Accountancy Age Awards 2006".Companies House. 2006. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-11-26.Retrieved18 November2011.
12 year history of the awards
- ^British Accountancy Awards
- ^Business media 'Superbrands' recognisedArchived2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine,PPA News, 13 March 2008
- ^abAccountancy Age - Winner of Editorial Team - Business 2008Archived2009-05-04 at theWayback Machine,UK AOP case study, 28 October 2008
- ^"Colin".10 March 2011.
- ^In other newsArchivedApril 13, 2010, at theWayback Machine,The Comics Journal,17 November 2003
- ^Accountancy AgeArchivedApril 26, 2009, at theWayback Machineat Incisive Media website
External links
edit- AccountancyAge– official website