Consultation

As some of you may be aware, the ICAEW has been conducting a consultation exercise whereby Gracechurch Consulting conduct an hour long telephone interview with selected members of the ICAEW in order to determine the attitudes and requirements of the membership.

I have not been contacted, I am guessing that the ICAEW know my views already:)

However, there is a good summary of the process on "The Small Practice Accountant".

It seems that this is just the start of the process.

Quote from the Small Practice Accountant:

"One of the questions I asked was how many people had been contacted and how many were participating in the initial study. The consultant I spoke too said she would find out and email me. Her reply though said the following:

'With regard to the number of participants in this stage of the study the Institute has asked me to provide you with the following information:

This is an initial stage of exploratory research which will cover members from a range of different segments. We need to review the findings of the exploratory work before a larger scale survey which will cover all segments of the membership can be designed. This will be designed to ensure that accurately reflects the views of all segments of ICAEW membership and it is statistically valid.'"

It seems that the ICAEW has finally started to realise that the membership is not that happy with how things have been run and are being run.

The question is, will the ICAEW have the courage to address the key issues such as; the size of council, the absurd council election process, the fees/costs of the institute etc?