Helping you do business with confidence ...
Specialist advice, information and support when you need it
The Institute’s world-leading Library & Information Service holds the world’s largest accounting and tax collection with more than 40,000 volumes and 43,000 journal articles and receives more than one million website page views from members every year.
Our Advisory Service help lines fielded more than 100,000 member enquiries during 2006.
Accountancy, now free to all members and students, provides you with vital updates on key issues and reaches more chief financial officers and finance directors than the Financial Times (British Business Survey 2005).
More than 45,000 members benefit from our specialist knowledge networks through the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Faculties. New faculties and SIGs will be introduced in 2007.
Our specialist e-alerts are circulated to over 92,000 members providing tailored updates on current issues.
With over 40,000 pages the Institute’s award winning website is the first port of call for up-to-date information for its members, receiving over 2.5 million visits a year and over 18 million page views.
In 2006, we held over 2,350 national, regional and district society events, giving over 100,000 attendees the opportunity to network and continue their professional development.
Supporting your qualification through excellence and innovation worldwide
With 128,000 members in over 140 countries ICAEW is the largest professional accounting body in Europe. We train students in over 18 countries including China, Cyprus, Malaysia and Russia.
We are a founder of the Global Accounting Alliance representing 700,000 of the world’s leading professional accountants.
With your support, we lead the debate on international standards and the challenges facing business, governments and the profession – issues from tax and corporate governance to measurement in financial reporting.
Our Business Confidence Monitor is used as an accurate barometer of business thinking by government and the Bank of England.
Nearly 2,000 member firms have joined our new Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) adviser scheme, promoting their specialist advisory services on a whole range of business finance to UK enterprise.
Enhancing the professional standing of your qualification
ACA student numbers grew by 10.1% last year and December’s exam sitting was the largest for 25 years, demonstrating the continuing value and reputation of our qualification worldwide.
In 2007, ACA training will be relaunched with increased flexibility, allowing better access to training for employers of all sizes across practice, industry and the public sector.
As the leading qualification for finance professionals, the ACA gives you the opportunity to work across the full breadth of the business community at the most senior levels. We have more CEOs and finance directors in FTSE 100 companies than any other accountancy body (Accountancy, October 2006).
Amongst finance directors, financial controllers, accounts managers, directors and management accountants, ICAEW- qualified salaries are on average 22% higher than CIMA-qualified (Accountancy Age, 27 October 2005).