''Accountancy Age'' is an online trade publication for

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s and financial staff in the

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. 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

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's company

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.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

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. They then sold the business publications division to venture capital group 3i, which in February 2007 sold the UK company to

Incisive Media ''Incisive Media'' is a B2B information and events business. It is based in London, United Kingdom. History Incisive Media is a business-to-business (B2B) information and events company founded by Tim Weller, in 1994 with the launch of ''Inves ...

.Incisive to buy VNU Business Publications
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,'' February 6, 2007 Incisive announced in April 2011 that the last print edition would be dated 21 April 2011. In 2015, Incisive sold ''Accountancy Age'' and ''Financial Director'' to Contentive.

Awards

From 1995 to 2010 the magazine organised and hosted The Accountancy Age Awards for accountancy firms, individuals, teams, initiatives and software packages. In 2011 these were succeeded by the British Accountancy Awards. The magazine has itself won various awards including a top 500 UK "Business Superbrand" in 2007 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.
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'', 17 November 2003

Readership

The target audience is

British qualified accountants British qualified accountants are full voting members of United Kingdom professional bodies that evaluate individual experience and test competencies for accountants. The term ''accountant'' does not have the same legal protection in the United Ki ...

. 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

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External links

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