MSCA Legacy Limited, the company formed in 2023 to distribute the endowment previously held by the Manchester Society of Chartered Accountants, has broadened its support to students at the Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS), awarding a cash prize to a recent graduate and providing bursaries and mentorship to three postgraduates.
MSCA Legacy awarded the David Illingworth Memorial Prize, to Eve Moores, who graduated from AMBS this summer with a BA Econ in accounting and finance.
The award was made in recognition of her dissertation analysing the challenges facing the UK’s rail operating companies – she concluded that nationalisation would achieve the optimum outcome.
MSCA Legacy is also providing mentorship and bursaries to three PhD students at AMBS. One of these students is researching ways that the best people can be recruited into the profession in the face the reputational damage done by audit-related scandals, another is looking at how accounting rules can best be applied internationally, while the third is examining the role of auditors in monitoring ethical issues.
Picture: (left to right): Alistair Hollows, chair of MSCA Legacy Limited, Eve Moores, and Professor Chris Humphry, professor of accounting at AMBS.
