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How accounting fuels progress in this 2025 Nobel-winner’s work
Think the Industrial Revolution was all steam and steel, or that the computing age relies simply on programming and chips? Nobel prize-winner Joel Mokyr has argued for decades that the development of accounting enabled these economic leaps.
Accounting for a better world: Insights from IFAC’s professional accountants in business advisory group
This theme underscores the pivotal position accountants occupy in driving sustainable business practices, fostering transparency, and...
Sector spotlight: Education emerges as an alternative career pathway for accountants
We speak with Professor Paul Andon, Head of the School of Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, at the University of NSW (UNSW) in Sydney about...
Changes to registration pathways would ‘create barriers for new entrants’: IPA
The Institute of Public Accountants has responded to Treasury's recent consultation on a wide range of proposed changes to the eligibility...
Bronny Speed: “If you help people and do things properly, the money comes”
For Bronny Speed, a career in accounting represents an enormous opportunity to help communities through difficult or turbulent times. She has...
Recruiters and job seekers are ‘ghosting’ each other. Can we save the lost art of replying?
Being “ghosted” – cut off from all communications without an explanation – isn’t a pleasant experience in any situation. So when you’re in the...
3 lessons accountants can learn from an HR professional
In this series, we speak with professionals across different sectors about the challenges they face in their roles, and bring lessons back to...
Dawn of a new era: building capacity in accountancy through competency-based education reform
Building capacity includes the development of new on-ramps to our profession, given the emergence of sustainability reporting and the obvious...
How being named IPA Member of the Year helped get Daniel Hay’s practice racing
As a passionate amateur race-car driver, Daniel Hay knows a thing or two about moving fast – and that is exactly what his firm Power2 has been...
Professional Standards Scheme: What’s in it for me?
Accountants and accounting practices that are compliant with the relevant standards set out within the IPA’s Professional Standards Scheme often...
Training in small- and medium-sized practices: Driving quality and unlocking opportunities
However, dynamic organisations primed for growth and development will need more than technical skills from their people, so successful SMPs must...
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