Students at Manchester’s three key universities have again benefitted from awards from MSCA Legacy* and Chartered Accountants’ Livery Charity.
The recipients of this year’s awards are: Rehan Ahmed and Laiba Waheed (Manchester Metropolitan University); Hui Xu, Zack Murphy and Panayiota Nayia Rossou (AMBS); and Shekinah Arafiena and Kiera Gray (University of Salford).
The scholarship is made in recognition of excellent dissertations that engage meaningfully with topics that will have a major impact on the future of the chartered accountancy profession.
This year’s subjects included the impact of corporate governance and ESG, detecting fraud, the impact of working from home on junior auditors, the ongoing effect of COVID, sustainability reporting in the UK energy industry, the impact of corporation tax changes on business investment decisions, and developments in AI.
*MSCA Legacy administers the funds formerly held by the Manchester Society of Chartered Accountants (MSCA). It makes grants and awards for the benefit of accountancy and financial education in Greater Manchester, honouring the legacy of an organisation that sat at the heart of the city’s financial community for more than 150 years.
Founded in 1870, in recent years MSCA had operated as ICAEW Manchester, while maintaining its own governance structure. In 2023 its members voted to cease to be an independent entity and to become a network under the national ICAEW umbrella.
Photo caption: Laiba Waheed, Jonathan Grosvenor, Rehan Ahmed, Shekinag Arafiena, Hui Xu
