The Yorkshire Accountancy Awards 2026 shortlist!
The Yorkshire Accountancy Awards brings together the region’s accounting community to recognise and celebrate its many achievements.
The awards are judged by a prestigious independent panel made up of experts from across the Yorkshire accountancy community.
Key Dates for Your Diary
All the dates you need for the Yorkshire Accountancy Awards 2026
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Entry deadline 31 October 2025 -
Shortlist December 2025 -
Awards ceremony 26 February 2026
Submissions for Yorkshire Accountancy Awards 2026 are open!
The Yorkshire Accountancy Awards celebrates Yorkshire’s outstanding accountants and firms.
Our categories are designed to recognise the entire profession, from small independent and mid-tier firms to the Big Four, while also offering a wide range of individual and team awards—all with a view to enabling the very best of regional practice to be scrutinised, recognised and rewarded.
The awards culminate in a black-tie ceremony and dinner, held in Leeds.
How to enter
- Register to enter
- Pick your categories
- Choose the form of your submission
- Submit via the form
- Attach your logo
- Attach nominee’s photo
- Sit back and wait for news
How to win
It’s all about being memorable and compelling:
- Start early. Give yourself plenty of time to carefully evaluate the criteria for the categories you’re entering and provide a well-produced submission before the entry deadline.
- Check the criteria. Each category has its own criteria, and each submission should be unique.
- Provide evidence. Include as many results and evidence of success as you can, including testimonials. Judges are there to be swayed, so sway them.
- Keep it simple. Write or speak clearly and concisely so the judges can quickly understand the points you’re making.
- Consult with the relevant team. Collaborate on your submission as you do your work, and ensure that your whole team contributes.
- Be enthusiastic, transparent, and honest. Inspire the judges by sharing your organisation’s ethos and passion for your work without trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Honesty is the best policy.
- Redraft and revise. Once your submission is ready, start again and interrogate every fact and figure. Are they correct? Question every claim. Is that true? Weigh your language. Is that a helpful term or an empty buzzword?
General rules and requirements
- Entrants must be based in Yorkshire or provide services in Yorkshire.
- Entrants can enter as many categories as they wish.
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Entrants are encouraged to limit submissions to two entries per category; further submissions may not be considered.
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Submissions must be unique and tailored to meet the criteria of each category.
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Self-nomination is required.
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Written and video submissions are accepted – both must follow the criteria format.
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Submissions can be made until 11.59pm on the entry deadline day.
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Entrants are expected to send at least one representative to attend the in-person ceremony.
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Entries submitted by companies that have undergone administration, liquidation, or significant restructuring will be subject to review to ensure continuity of operations, leadership, and client commitments.
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The Yorkshire Accountancy Awards reserves the right to disqualify entries where there are concerns about corporate governance, financial stability, or ethical business practices.
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The judging panel has the final authority to determine whether an entry meets the spirit and intent of the awards.
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The Yorkshire Accountancy Awards reserves the right to remove any entries or finalists that do not meet the above criteria or that, in the judges’ discretion, could undermine the integrity of the awards.
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2026 Shortlist
- Audit Service Award
- Best Employer
- Brand of the Year
- Consultancy/Advisory Service Award
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Corporate Finance Service Award
Azets
Castle Square Corporate Finance Limited
Forvis Mazars
Category Sponsor
Over the past 50 years, Ison Harrison Solicitors has grown from a one man band to what is now a large regional law firm employing over 440 staff across 24 offices throughout Yorkshire. As a 100% employee owned business, Ison Harrison pride themselves on providing the best service and building long term relationships with their clients and contacts. Ison Harrison offer the broadest suite of legal services in the region and are very much embedded in the communities in which we have offices.
- Independent Firm of the Year
- In-House Finance Team of the Year
- Large Firm of the Year
- Managing Partner of the Year
- Mid-Tier Firm of the Year
- Niche Firm of the Year
- Partner of the Year
- Rising Star of the Year
- Support Staff of the Year
- Tax Service Award
- Team of the Year
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Trainee of the Year
Adam Wyatt – Forvis Mazars LLP
Ammaarah Patel – Parsons Chartered Accountants
Callum Irvine – Lloyd Dowson
Conrad Barr – KPMG
Lewis Walsh – Forvis Mazars LLP
Michael Fearn – Kingswood Allotts
Millie Cooper – Flourish Accounting LTD
Morgan Bland – Gravitate Accounting
Category Sponsor
First Intuition are an award-winning training provider delivering programmes in the AAT, ACCA, ICAEW and CIMA Qualifications. We have training centres conveniently based in Leeds, Sheffield and Hull where we have created an inviting yet professional learning environment for aspiring accountants.
- Yorkshire Accountant of the Year
- Private Client
- Forensic Accounting Award
- Best ESG Campaign
- Accounting Tech Initiative of the Year
