Annual Dinner
Thursday 23rd February, 2006

The Annual Dinner of the Manchester Chartered Accountants Students’ Society will be held at The Midland Hotel in Manchester on Thursday 23rd February 2006. The cost per ticket will be £55 per person, including VAT but excluding wine.

This year we will be joined by a guest speaker Nick Leeson a.k.a. the rogue trader that broke Barings Bank. Nick is one of the UK’s most sought-after speakers. Curiosity, intrigue and sympathy have been the various reactions to this mans' incredible life story.

Nick Leeson - Infamous Financial Trader

How could one trader bring down the banking empire that had funded the Napoleonic Wars? Nick Leeson, the young gambler who found him self sucked into a terrifying spiral of loss, was a working class boy who lived high in an upper class world until his unchecked gambling caused the downfall of Barings, the Banker to the English Peerage and caused chaos in the Singaporean money market. Markets have always been cruel but rarely have they been so cruel, so swiftly and on such a grand a scale. Nick talks frankly about what happened, the lack of accounting safeguards, his capture and confinement for 9 months in a Frankfurt prison and being sentenced to 6 years by the Singapore court for forgery and cheating.

For further information visit www.nickleeson.com

An application form for tickets can be found here and, in order to ensure that you receive the allocation that you wish, this form should be returned by Friday 3rd February to Emma Wynne at the address above. Please enclose a cheque with your application form to cover the full cost of the tickets. There is also a copy of the menu, wine list and wine order form. For firms requiring hire of a function room, please contact the hotel directly on 0161 236 3333 asking for Pat Smith.

If overnight accommodation is required, again please contact Pat Smith, who has secured a special room rate for the occasion.

Finally, could you please ensure that any dietary requirements reach Emma Wynne before Friday 17th February.