Centre for Business Performance

The Centre for Business Performance promotes high quality research of relevance to the accountancy profession and the wider business community. The goal is to encourage thought leadership in consideration of performance-related issues with an emphasis on their financial aspects.

 

Encouraging and funding fundamental research

Through its technical activities the Institute supports members and gives topical policy advice and public comment on the range of current, pressing issues facing business and the accountancy profession. Underlying many of the current topical issues are common challenges of managing rapid change on an international scale in which the Centre encourages research.

 

Funding

Funding is available from the ICAEW's charitable trusts for research projects into relevant areas and for certain events which bring together practitioners, academics and policy makers.

 

Research Projects

The Centre welcomes proposals for new research projects that are either directly focused on specific current policy issues or address more widely the underlying factors that are associated with the rapidly changing reporting, management, market, and regulatory environment that faces the accounting profession.

 

The centre's principal research areas:

• New reporting models
• Standard setting
• Technology
• Governance
• Uses of accounting information
• Finance and Management
• Communication and education