After running from 1969 to 2011 with a circulation of over 60,000 in print,[2] it changed with effect from May 2011 to an online-only publication.

[3] Haymarket later sold Accountancy Age and Computing magazine to become the mainstay journals of VNU Business Publications Ltd, which formed in 1980.

[6] In 2015, Incisive sold Accountancy Age and Financial Director to Contentive.

[12] Liam Saunders' weekly cartoon "Colin"[13] won the Workworld Media Award for "Cartoonist of the Year" in 2003.

The AOP's editorial award case study refers to "senior figures at big four firms and in government swearing by the team’s newswires, live blogs, and multimedia industry coverage",[12] and the website claims that it is considered the "independent voice of the profession".