News & Thoughts

​As we get closer to the Yorkshire Accountancy Awards 2024, our Director Kayley Haythornthwaite caught up with Zuzanna Kazimierczak, Financial Controller at Chadwick Lawrence LLP, who’s nominated for the Finance Director of the Year Award, about how her 2023 panned out and what she’s looking forward for as we head into 2024.

​The worst Monday ever? The third Monday of January is well known these days as the most depressing day of the year. As if January wasn’t already bad enough: it’s cold, Christmas is over, we’re all a bit skint and reality is back in full swing. And then, in 2004, psychologist coined the term ‘Blue Monday’ as a PR stunt to sell holidays, and it’s been stuck in our heads ever since. Why has it persisted for so long? It’s likely something to do with the fact it taps into something a lot of us are feeling already.

Christmas and year-end reviews: two things with entirely different moods. How do you deliver that tough feedback in the season of goodwill to all? And does it ever actually do any good?

In 2023, Crisis UK were our charity of choice. We’ve had a great year, fundraising for the UK’s national charity for people experiencing homelessness. Since 1967, Crisis have worked directly with people who need support to get out of homelessness and into long term housing.

Our Business Manager, Hannah Bateman, talks us through the loss of her dad last year, and what the business are doing to support her.

When I started in recruitment in the 90s in West London, twelve-hour days were the norm–followed by going out and getting drunk. It was a laddish culture where we burned the candle at both ends, and the concept of a “Mental Health Awareness Week” would probably have been met with ridicule.

We recently sat down with Eli from Irwin Mitchell to understand what diversity and inclusion mean to them and what they are doing to promote inclusion and diversity in their organisation.