The UK Brexit transition period ends on 31 December 2020. This page brings together guidance and news from ICAEW, as well as externally-produced resources providing practical information on inventory planning and supply chain issues.
Brexit provides an opportunity for businesses to consider the information they hold on their supply chains/inventory as well as their approach to continuity planning. Read our guide to assist you in balancing the costs of these exercises with the potential benefits.
Thirty minute session from ICAEW Virtually Live covering the 10 practical considerations that businesses need to be focusing on right now to be prepared for the end of the transition period
Read our quick-start guide, outlining a variety of areas that could impact your business post Brexit, to help you prepare for when the transition period has ended.
21 October 2020: The Brexit conversation used to revolve largely around processing forms. Now it is more about the CFO grasping that Brexit is a key part of business resilience. This is this view of Tim Morris, Chief Executive of UK Major Ports Group.
12 October 2020: With new border processes and controls approaching regardless of any deal with the EU it is critical that the UK prepares now, urges UK Major Ports Group.
30 September 2020: As the Brexit transition period nears its end, businesses in the UK and EU face a number of VAT issues that need to be addressed, says indirect tax expert Stephen Dale, FCA.
Reinforcing your supply chain will avert disaster
Analysing the future of the High Street and online retailing
A look at this opaque and mysterious industry.
Customers have complex needs, here’s how to match them.
Brexit provides an opportunity for businesses to consider the information they hold on their supply chains/inventory as well as their approach to continuity planning. Read our guide to assist you in balancing the costs of these exercises with the potential benefits.
Brexit provides an opportunity for businesses to consider the information they hold on their supply chains/inventory as well as their approach to continuity planning. Read our guide to assist you in balancing the costs of these exercises with the potential benefits.
Abigail Harper talks through a risk-based approach to providing supply chain assurance within the retail sector.
Abigail Harper talks through a risk-based approach to providing supply chain assurance within the retail sector.
This online resource, created by the ICAEW Business and Management Faculty, looks at the evolving situation and its implications from a supply chain perspective as well as what you can do now to protect yourself from the impact on business performance.
The departure of the UK from the EU in March 2019 is a once in a generation change of profound significance. In July 2018, ICAEW and Chartered Accountants Ireland teamed up to publish a guide to Brexit designed to help our members advising UK and Irish businesses how to navigate this seminal change.
Nuno Godinho, Executive VP of product delivery at SAGE, in this webinar outlines the concept of a virtual finance director and the developments in software and communications and other technologies that enable accountants and business to operate in this way.
This webinar goes through practical steps to reduce the likelihood of your business suffering from supply chain fraud.
Learn from our experience at the MOD. A cost effective, risk-based approach to addressing cyber exposure across your supply chain.
Learn from our experience at the MOD. A cost effective, risk-based approach to addressing cyber exposure across your supply chain.
A one-hour webinar delivered by the Department for International Trade focusing on changes that businesses need to be aware of when trading with EU and non-EU countries.
Tool from the UK Government to look up commodity codes, duty and VAT rates
Tool that allows you to identify customs tariffs, tariff rate quotas, trade remedies, regulatory requirements and preferential regimes applicable to your product. Includes a library of 400+ trade agreements. Funded by the EU and GRIPS.
Briefing from UK law firm Travers Smith which explains how contract drafting could help to hedge against goods shortages as an alternative to stockpiling
Article from Supply Management magazine (CIPS) highlighting lessons from Covid-19 that can be applied to planning for the end of the Brexit transition period on 1 January 2021, including the need to measure suppliers' capabilities and the reprioritisation of technology.
Article from McKinsey arguing that UK companies should see the current high-uncertainty environment as a spur to rethink their supply chain strategies and make them more resilient.
Country guides from UK Government explaining changes to exporting goods and services from the UK from 1 January 2021.
Article from Supply Management magazine (CIPS) explaining how a short survey of your supply chain can help you see beyond your tier-one suppliers and provide the information needed to build up a realistic buffer.