Rickard Keen has won a prestigious regional award for the third year in a row.

The practice was named Training Firm of the Year in this year’s South Essex Accountancy and Business Awards, organised by theInstituteofChartered AccountantsinEnglandand Wales (ICAEW).

Further adding to Rickard Keen’s success was its client Rega Research Ltd, based in Southend, who won the Growing Business of the Year award.

Rickard Keen has had outstanding success in training new accountants over the last year. The firm currently has nine students undertaking ICAEW training or Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) training with ICAEW training to follow.

Of the 16 Chartered Accountants at the firm, 13 qualified with them.