Maintaining our position as a world-leading professional body

摘要

I am proud of the fact that the ICAEW is the largest of the professional accounting bodies not just in the UK but Europe. Our institute represents 127,000 members advising and running businesses across the full breadth of the UK economy as well as the major capital markets. Last year, following a major strategic review, we announced our intention to try and consolidate the UK profession. Why? Because despite goodwill between individual bodies on many issues, current relationships between the major institutes tend to emphasise competition rather than partnership. As a result the profession as a whole has great difficulty in speaking with one voice.