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Naughty goings-on at Age's Awards
There' always someone willing to play up at the Accountancy Age Awards, and this year was no exception – in fact we had two naughty schoolboys this year.
Small firm of the Year winner SJD Accountancy sent someone to pick up its award who was, shall we say, publicity shy.
Eschewing the standard 'off to the side and have your pic done for the mag', the fella who picked up the award made a beeline for the opposite side of the hall. Even intervention by the Age's influential and persuasive Ed in chief Damian Wild was futile. Oh well, no pic in the mag then for you Mr SJD person.
The other incident was less expected.
Unlike the other well-behaved sponsors, Mature Accountants' award presenter shouted out a 'Mature Accountants!' slogan before handing the award over to the winner. More like Immature Accountants, thought TS.
Still, in 2005 we had award presenter Bridge Gadhok, of Doshi & Co, state that the award for small business software package of the year should go to his wife because she was such a lovely small package. Now that was really naughty.
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As the "immature accountant" referred to by TS, all I can say is that it was a great evening that was very well organised by Accountancy Age, and all I said was "On behalf of all mature accountants out there the winner is BDO Stoy Hayward!" BDO happened to be my old firm so I must have got carried away with
the emotion of the moment as I presented the Employer of the Year Award! Hopefully only those of a sensitive disposition were offended.
Posted by :Martin Lloyd-Penny | November 20, 2007 5:38 PM
Hello Martin, don't worry, TS wasn't too offended! Just a bit of gentle leg-pulling on TS's behalf.
Glad you enjoyed the night, your sponsorship of the award hinted to TS that things are going well on your front, from the days when Mature Accountants began letter writing to the mag.
Hope to see you around for next year's awards, and stay outspoken, and not too mature!!
Posted by :TS | November 21, 2007 3:29 PM