Who was crowned a winner at the PQ magazine awards?

What a 20th awards night it was!

We had fire-eaters, acrobats, ‘accountants with talent’ and 24 coveted trophies to give away. It could only be the PQ magazine Awards 2023.

Check out who walked off with the prizes in the winners video at https://tinyurl.com/59jntb3c

Accountants Jean-Paul NoelCephine and Libby Walklett stole the show as our ‘accountants with talent’. That meant we got show tunes and Elvis in the building, all for one night only!

For the second year Proud Embankment hosted the starstudded event, which saw Evie Todd crowned PQ of the Year. Lillian Okolie won Distance Learning Student of the Year and the Accountancy Apprentice of the Year was Anastasia Byard.

The Training Manger of the

Record rise in ACA students

Last year was another record one for ICAEW student recruitment, with 11,962 (2021: 11,049) new students joining the institute in 2022.

The newly-released annual report explains that student growth is considered crucial to the future success of ICAEW, which relies on the progression of students into its membership base.

The year-on-year 8% increase in ACA student numbers meant income from education and training continued to grow, to £18.5m for the year

Year award went to FC Training & Recruitment’s Jagruti Patel. Personality of the Year was Rachel Harris, and University of West London’s Xhulja Duka was Accountancy Graduate of the Year. This year’s Editor’s Special Awards went to Tom Clendon’s SBR podcast, e-Careers Karen Groves, and Open Tuition. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to LSBF’s Arron Etigen.

(2021: £17.4m). This is broken down to £12.8m from exam fees and £5.7m in student fees and charges. However, this does not include the sale of learning material, as these are lumped in commercial, events and sponsorship income of £13.5m.

There are now 36,084 students studying towards the ACA qualification.

Total ICAEW income for the year was £141.7m and the net result after tax for the year was £13.6m. Subscription and fees remained stable at £55.3m, reflecting steady year-on-year growth in membership numbers. ICAEW has 166,397 members.

Winner Jagruti Patel and the FC Training &

Check out the front cover and pages 17-19 for all the winners, and there will be more fun in the next issue of PQ magazine.

NEWS FLASH ACCA September exam results

Contrary to what you may have read (including here in PQ magazine) the September ACCA exam results will be released according to the standard timetable. So you will get your results on 16 October.

ACCA had been planning some IT work, which may have required a system outage, but it has been able to avoid this, and so the results will be released as normal.