Information Technology publications

Information Technology publications listing

  • Accounts production software guide

    Chartech product software guide

  • Across jurisdictions in e-commerce

    For the purposes of this guide e-commerce covers trading in goods or services through the use of digital electronic communication, over the internet. The seller and buyer are not face-to-face at any point but can carry out business instantaneously.

  • A guide to Business cases - increasing value from investments

    This guide helps you understand what decision makers need from business cases and what is needed from sponsors of business cases. Appendices include a number of useful templates and examples.

  • Bringing employee personal devices into the business

    The gap between business and consumer technology has been growing over the last few years, with the consumer market now leading in terms of ease of use and portability.

    Information security myths and reality revisited 2011

  • Business Continuity Management

    This introductory guide will offer tools, tips and techniques for businesses of any size.

  • Cloud Computing: A guide for Business Managers

    Using this guide managers in both IT and other disciplines should be able to plot their next steps in exploring the potential of cloud computing as well as outline their requirements when seeking a cloud supplier, and the policies they will follow in employing this latest response to an age-old IT dilemma.

  • Confidentiality and IT

    Confidentiality is a developing topic at law and in business practice. This guide will discuss the law relating to confidential information and IT, and provide advice on how to protect confidential information effectively under English law

  • Cost savings through resource efficiency - a Practical Guide to Green IT

    Cost savings through resource efficiency - a Practical Guide to Green IT focuses on how IT can help your organisation reduce its environmental impact and concentrate, in particular, on areas where the greatest cost savings can be achieved

  • Digital reporting options for Europe

    A study of interactive data from the perspective of non-professional investors. On 17 December 2008 the United States' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted in favour of phasing in the mandatory submission of digital reports using eXtensible Business Reporting Language data tags - interactive data.

  • Document management software

    This guide aims to highlight the differences between electronic storage and document management - with real life examples - which should enable business owners, be they accountants in practice or any other business person

  • Forecasting and Budgeting Software

    This guide investigates the business purpose of the software and examines what's on the market. It also highlights points to look out for, pitfalls to avoid, and includes reviews of a selection of specific products in that area.

  • Information Security: An Essential Today

    This guide explains the ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27002 standards and helps management set out on the road of improving information security.

  • Information security myths and reality revisited 2011

    This guide provides some insights into the real-life application of information security.

  • IT Faculty Large Firm - special publications package

    The IT Faculty has spent time with large accounting practices researching their information requirements. These publications have been identified as being of most use to members of these practices. The IT Faculty has spent time working with large accounting practices to discover what technical publications will be of interest and value to members in those organisations.

  • IT in accountancy practices - survey report 2011

    Reports on the 2011 survey of the use of IT in ICAEW member firms. The report includes details of what software products are currently being used, and how satisfied users are with the products they have. Other subjects covered include progress with iXBRL, 'cloud' computing, and home and mobile working.

  • Making the most of social media - a practical guide for your business

    This guide will enable the business manager to develop a philosophy that allies social media’s potential with the business’s objectives and capabilities.

  • Making the move to cloud computing

    Cloud computing in its purest form is pay-as-you-go IT, online and on demand. The IT capabilities provided as a service to businesses include: single software applications or software suites; online software development platforms; and virtual computing infrastructure, ranging from data storage to computer grids.

  • Managing IT in the SME: a guide for finance directors

    This guide is for for finance directors who have overall responsibility for IT in a small to medium enterprise (SME).

  • Minimising spreadsheet errors

    Spreadsheets are a ubiquitous business tool. However, there is a tendency for end-users and management to place undue trust in the integrity of the analysis performed using them.

  • Online accounting software

    This guide to choosing online accounting software for finance professionals covers the pros and cons of online systems and looks at the practical and financial considerations to bear in mind when selecting a system.

  • Social media and the law

    This guide is an early general introduction to the law which applies to us as active participants, users, viewers, and in the workplace, concerning the new electronic communications channels of social media. It discusses how relevant legal principles, such as data protection, affect social media.