Accounting Excellence Awards

Anyone else think the Awards should be binned this year?

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I got a reminder about entering the other day. My suspicion is that practices - especially smaller ones - are presumably more interested in helping their clients get through the Cvirus at the present time, rather than spending time applying for awards etc. For small businesses this is all about survival. Should the Awards be binned for this year? Agree or disagree?

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By lionofludesch
18th Mar 2020 10:00

Should be binned every year, IMHO.

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By Cloudcounter
18th Mar 2020 10:34

lionofludesch wrote:

Should be binned every year, IMHO.

My thoughts exactly.

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Mike Goldsmith
By Mike Goldsmith
18th Mar 2020 12:28

Hi there,

Sorry you received that. A simple case of a 'reminder' newsletter already in the system. My personal inbox is full of similar so please bear with us as anything automated flushes through.

Accounting Excellence is a celebration of the accounting profession which gets bigger every year - by which we mean more entries as accountants proudly nominate their teams. We are again looking at a record year - indeed Monday saw a flurry of entries as people looked for positive things to do when likely working from home.

Obviously, we understand that entering any award programme isn't on the top of everyone's to do list. For those who do wish to but are busy with client work, we totally understand - we are currently looking at a deadline extension.

As for cancelling… We appreciate awards programmes aren't everyone's cup of tea but, for an increasing number, they are. A lot of work has already gone in from firms around the country who have entered and we won't be throwing that away. The Awards are six months away and, whilst things change, we believe Accounting Excellence will provide a chance to celebrate a profession that is steering itself and its clients through current adversity.

As for coronavirus - the AWEB team are putting in as many hours as possible on this (plus have IR35 to now consider!) to keep people updated on changes. You can see all the hard work via the 'coronavirus' tag on the top nav or just click https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tags/coronavirus. Any Answers users can jump in on John Stokdyk's latest thread here (https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/how-are-we-all-doing), making sure our community is okay. Around 30,000 people drop by AccountingWEB every day and we're dedicated to making sure they're both informed and looked after. Do contribute and let us know if there's anything else we can do.

All the best,

Mike

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By FirstTab
19th Mar 2020 16:32

"As for cancelling… We appreciate awards programmes aren't everyone's cup of tea but, for an increasing number, they are. A lot of work has already gone in from firms around the country who have entered and we won't be throwing that away. The Awards are six months away and, whilst things change, we believe Accounting Excellence will provide a chance to celebrate a profession that is steering itself and its clients through current adversity."

They only benefit a select few. They normally tend to be the ones whose contribution on the forum is tends to be nil. Further, even where there is a contribution it is to drive their name/practice forward.

They do create them and us culture. If the awards are an additional source of revenue for Sift, then I completely understand. Thankfully, there is a seprate website for the awards. This is good.

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