LSCA Business
The President's Words The One missing constant that is returning, post-pandemic, is the ever popular Annual Dinner, and I look forward to welcoming you all on Friday 25th November 2022, which I hope will be a great night!."
The growing cost of living crisis is the next challenge, that will test our abilities as advisors to both our clients and colleagues.
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reetings! It is with great pleasure, and honour, that I take on the role of President of the Liverpool Society of Chartered Accountants. It has seemed a long time coming with the hiatus caused by the pandemic, but my year is finally here and I’m very much looking forward to it. I am a Chartered Accountant in industry, having qualified in the Liverpool office of Ernst & Young – I was interviewed by Arthur Young, but by the time I joined, the merger with Ernst & Whinney had completed. I grew up in Portsmouth, but like many, I stayed in the North West after graduating, and my active involvement in the Society has given me the ability to give back both to the profession and the City that has opened up so many opportunities. I’ve spent the last 15 years in the nuclear industry, which has a strong presence in the North West, not just in Sellafield, but in Warrington,
North Wales, Preston and Cheshire and is on the verge of a boost arising from the drive for net zero emission power generation. This was after a number of roles in industry ranging from plc’s to start ups, proving the flexibility of our qualification. I’d previously been an active member with the student society in my days at Ernst & Young, before qualifying and moving into industry, but it was our past president, Andrew Moss, who lured me back to the Society to represent members in Industry, and the rest is history. The pandemic has impacted all walks of society, and it’s apparent that behaviours and attitudes have changed the way that we live and work. The Society has not been insulated from these changes and we are looking at how we can serve the membership to ensure that we can support and serve you in the most appropriate ways, and the current review and update of the Society strategy is a key part of this.
Online meetings and training have now seemed to have become the default method of engagement, but I know from personal experience that social engagement and networking still plays an important part in our business life, and we will be looking at ways that we can facilitate this, along with the continuing online provision. This includes the business tours that we successfully ran pre-pandemic. One missing constant that is returning, post-pandemic, is the ever popular Annual Dinner, and I look forward to welcoming you all on Friday 25th November 2022, which I hope will be a great night! Finally, I’d like to thank Rob Young, our outgoing President, for leading the Society through the most challenging of times for the last two years, and my fellow office holders and committee members to their dedication in challenging times. I can’t wait to get started! JUSTIN LANG President
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ISSUE 33 Summer 2022
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