City Moves for 05 November 2013 | Who’s switching jobs November 4, 2013 RBS The bank’s real estate management division, part of its global restructuring group, has announced the hire of Jessica Way as a senior asset manager. She was most recently at Aviva Investors, where she was a real estate asset manager for its property trust. Chadbourne & Parke The advisory firm has recruited Nikolai Mikhailov as an [...]
Advisory work lifts revenue at Grant Thornton October 6, 2013 GRANT Thornton has posted a 13 per cent surge in annual revenues to £471m as the accountancy firm picks up more advisory work from large-cap firms and mid-cap audit contracts. The firm said turnover in its advisory business rose by more than a fifth in the year to the end of June, helped by an [...]
Britain is falling badly behind in the entrepreneurship stakes July 29, 2013 ONE OF Britain’s great advantages is that we are meant to be a much more entrepreneurial nation than most of our major competitors. We do, indeed, create more companies than some other wealthy countries but as a study by RSM reveals, we are hardly covering ourselves in glory. In fact, we are ranked a pathetic [...]
RSM Tenon parts ways with PwC December 6, 2012 RSM Tenon has officially ditched PwC as its auditor, after nearly two thirds of shareholders voted down the firm’s reappointment. RSM Tenon has already started looking for a new auditor, after it discovered a black hole in its books in January that sparked a profit warning and a change in management. The accountancy regulator is [...]
How the geography of global innovation is rapidly changing September 12, 2013 Liam Ward-Proud investigates the cities that are attempting to foster new startup cultures WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has called on Britain to extend its entrepreneurship visa scheme to make London more enticing to startups. He joked that “nobody wants to live in San Jose, California – it’s incredibly boring”. But the geography of global innovation [...]
RSM Tenon says watchdog has stepped back November 19, 2012 BELEAGUERED accountancy firm RSM Tenon yesterday warned its most recent turnover figures had disappointed management expectations, but the firm was still making impressive profits. The company, which announced it is cutting 400 staff to trim costs and turn around the business, said in its interim management statement yesterday that revenues in the first quarter were [...]
RSM Tenon says watchdog has stepped back November 19, 2012 BELEAGUERED accountancy firm RSM Tenon yesterday warned its most recent turnover figures had disappointed management expectations, but the firm was still making impressive profits. The company, which announced it is cutting 400 staff to trim costs and turn around the business, said in its interim management statement yesterday that revenues in the first quarter were [...]
Innovation Diary: Three things we can learn from the high growth small business gazelles September 15, 2013 OVER 350,000 new firms have been launched in the UK this year, and confidence is rising. Aldermore Bank research, released on Friday, saw small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) confidence in the economy climb for the fourth consecutive quarter. Yet this tells us little about what it takes to succeed as a UK startup. As Mark [...]
How the geography of global innovation is rapidly changing September 8, 2013 Liam Ward-Proud investigates the cities that are attempting to foster new startup cultures WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales has called on Britain to extend its entrepreneurship visa scheme to make London more enticing to startups. He joked that “nobody wants to live in San Jose, California – it’s incredibly boring”. But the geography of global innovation [...]
RSM Tenon tries to turn the page after dire year October 17, 2012 EMBATTLED professional services firm RSM Tenon tried to draw a line under an “unsatisfactory” year yesterday, after reporting a pre-tax loss of £101.8m. The firm said it is cutting 400 staff, more than first planned and with some compulsory redundancies, as part of its turnaround. It has overhauled its top staff this year after discovering [...]