Accountancy Age is an online trade publication for accountants and financial staff in the United Kingdom. After running from 1969 to 2011 with a circulation of over 60,000 in print, it changed with effect from May 2011 to an online-only publication.
History Accountancy Age was first published on 5 December 1969, by Michael Heseltine's company Haymarket Publishing.First issue of Accountancy Age, 5 Dec 1969 Haymarket later sold Accountancy Age and Computing magazine to become the mainstay journals of VNU Business Publications Ltd, which formed in 1980.Acquisition of VNU Business Publications Ltd , Incisive Media press release, 8 Feb 2007 The parent company, Dutch media group VNU, was acquired by a group of private equity firms in 2006, and renamed as The Nielsen Company. They then sold the business publications division to venture capital group 3i, which in February 2007 sold the UK company to Incisive Media.Incisive to buy VNU Business Publications, Daily Telegraph, February 6, 2007
Incisive announced in April 2011 that the last print edition would be dated 21 April 2011.Incisive Media discontinues the print edition of Accountancy Age, Accountancy Age, 15 Apr 2011
In 2015, Incisive sold Accountancy Age and Financial Director to Contentive.Incisive Media has sold the Accountancy Age and Financial Director brands to Blenheim Chalcot and its portfolio company Contentive.
Awards From 1995 to 2010 the magazine organised and hosted The Accountancy Age Awards for accountancy firms, individuals, teams, initiatives and software packages.Accountancy Age Awards.com: 2010 Awards In 2011 these were succeeded by the British Accountancy Awards.British Accountancy Awards
The magazine has itself won various awards including a top 500 UK "Business Superbrand" in 2007Business media 'Superbrands' recognised , PPA News, 13 March 2008 and the 2008 Award for "Editorial Team of the Year" from the Association of Online Publishers.Accountancy Age - Winner of Editorial Team - Business 2008 , UK AOP case study, 28 October 2008 Liam Saunders' weekly cartoon "Colin" won the Workworld Media Award for "Cartoonist of the Year" in 2003.In other news , The Comics Journal, 17 November 2003
Readership The target audience is British qualified accountants. The AOP's editorial award case study refers to "senior figures at big four firms and in government swearing by the team's newswires, live blogs, and multimedia industry coverage", and the website claims that it is considered the "independent voice of the profession".Accountancy Age at Incisive Media website
References
External links AccountancyAge.com – official website