Accountancy firm BDO announces over 70 promotions in the South West

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Peter Davison

David Brookes

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has announced a raft of promotions in the South West.

The round saw a total of 74 promotions in the firm’s Bristol office, including two new directors: Kathryn Archer and Douglas Cecil.

Nationwide, BDO has promoted over 2,300 of its people, including 30 new partners across all areas of the business.

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Just under half of BDO’s firmwide promotions fall in the regions outside of London.

In September, the firm welcomed 19 new trainees in the region, a combination of graduates and school leaver apprentices.

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David Brookes (pictured), regional managing partner of BDO in the South West commented: “Congratulations to all our people in the South West who have been promoted. Each promotion stands testament to BDO’s unwavering commitment to investing in our people, underlining our belief that they are central to the future of our business."

“We’re incredibly proud to recognise the dedication and talent of so many of our colleagues with these well-deserved promotions just a few months after welcoming a new cohort of graduates and apprentices, our advisers of the future.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.