Value for money in the Guinness Premiership
With the new Rugby season set to start, ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) asks Guinness Premiership fans: are you getting the best value for money from your season ticket?
After winning the Guinness Premiership last year, London Wasps again find themselves on top, with a sizeable gap between themselves and second place Bath.
Interestingly, the bottom 4 teams in the ACCA value league are also the four teams most likely to finish bottom of the Guinness Premiership, according to William Hill.
The results are found by taking each team’s value, dividing the value by the cost of the mid-range season ticket from that team, and multiplying the result by 100. The final scores were then put into the following league table:
Team Points
London Wasps 42.3
Bath Rugby 36.0
Harlequins 35.2
Gloucester Rugby 33.3
Leicester Tigers 32.3
Sale Sharks 26.4
London Irish 23.7
Saracens 23.3
Bristol Rugby 19.6
Newcastle Falcons 17.1
Northampton Saints 15.2
Worcester Warriors 14.4
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Notes to Editors
1. ACCA is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management. We have 325,606 students and 122,426 members in 170 countries worldwide.
2. ACCA believes that globalisation of business requires one set of reporting standards. We favour principles-based, not rules-based standards, which is why we support the worldwide implementation of IFRS.
3. ACCA believes that tax systems should be transparent, simplified, fair and certain.
4. Complying with regulations affects SMEs disproportionately, which is why ACCA urges governments and standard setters to ‘think small first'’
For further information please contact:
Andrew Swailes, ACCA Newsroom phone: +44 (0)20 7059 5823 email: andrew.swailes@accaglobal.com
Colin Davis, ACCA Newsroom phone: +44(0)20 70595738/ 07720347713 email: colin.davis@accaglobal.com