Why join Access Accountancy?

What is the scheme

Access Accountancy signatories commit to measurable outcomes, which aim to deliver real change and welcome talented and ambitious young people to the profession from all backgrounds. Access Accountancy signatories are committed to:

• Providing a target number of 30 hour work placements, depending on their size and capacity, to students from disadvantaged backgrounds
• Collecting and monitoring socioeconomic data of applicants and hires on an annual basis
• Taking part in externally validated reviews of Access Accountancy
• Generating interest in accountancy by delivering common messages in more target schools and colleges
  

Access Accountancy signatories are also expected to make an annual donation (dependent on their size) to support the continuation of the initiative. For further information please contact access.accountancy@kpmg.co.uk.

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Why is it important?

The accountancy profession accounts for 1.1% of total employee population in the UK (BIS 2010) and was identified by Milburn (2009) as having had the largest decline of all professions in social mobility between the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts. Unless trends reverse, tomorrow’s professional is growing up in a family richer than seven in ten of all families in the UK.

It is generally recognised that the country’s future prosperity and growth will be underpinned by the professions.
This expansion will require recruitment of the most talented people from all backgrounds.

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What we're trying to achieve

VISION

The accountancy profession is more representative, at all levels, of the socioeconomic demographic of wider society.

MISSION

Access Accountancy works towards everyone having an equal chance of accessing the accountancy profession based on merit not background.

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