ACCA council members are used to being kept in the dark. They are part-timers and have little time to become really involved. So power is concentrated in the hands of the bureaucrats. But one or two council members are showing signs of waking up and have sent us the information below.
In common with other large scale organisations, ACCA uses the services of news clipping (or media) organisations. It also has a large in-house media and PR operations. They collect news items that mention ACCA. From this a 'media coverage pack' is compiled and circulated to ACCA council members. The sample below relates to news about the ACCA in The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES), a weekly UK newspaper related to higher education. The ACCA Media Coverage Pack excludes many items. You are welcome to have a guess at the motives. Perhaps, it is incomeptence, secrecy or something else. Answers on a postcard please to the ACCA President at 21 Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 3EE.
ITEMS THAT
DATE
IN THE ACCA
MENTION ACCA
IN THES MEDIA
PACK?
Is all really well at ACCA?
3 Sep 1999 Yes - but the
article
Click here)
was photocopied at
a reduced size
Critical Accounting - a letter
by John Stittle
10 Sep 1999
Not found
Course is called to account
17 Sep 1999
Not found
- letter by Austin Mitchell MP
(Click here)
ACCA members turn
24 Sep 1999
Not found
against senior officers
Degree Account - letter from 24 Sep 1999
Not found
Oxford Brookes University
(Click here)
Letter from Michael Harvey
1 Oct 1999
Not found
responding to Austin Mitchell
University bent rules to set
22 Oct 1999
Not found
up accountancy deal
(Click here)
Strong-arm advice ACCA 29
Oct 1999
Yes
meeting called to examine
governnance
No ACCA Deal- a letter
3 Dec 1999
Appeared twice -
from Anthea Rose
in Oct and Nov
media pack
Hull Team reinvestigated 28
January 2000
AABA did not
(Click Here)
have access to
the latest media
pack