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Add some Power to Audited Accounts with Power BI
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  • 02 Oct 2023
In this article, we explore how you can use Microsoft Power BI to streamline the process of creating audited accounts at a low cost.
Leveraging the Companies House API using Python
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  • 25 Sep 2023
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) offer significant opportunities to the profession to bring in third party data into existing systems and processes to enhance them and add additional value. They also provide scope for integration, extending current system functionality, or allowing the embedding of new systems and software in a much more presentable way in your existing ecosystem.
Exclusive How a CDO can help you get more for less
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  • 12 Jul 2023
In a recent survey of over 3,000 Chief Data Officers, IBM have explored what it means to be a CDO, and the value that they can deliver for businesses. Here, we look at some of the key findings.
Exclusive Analytics Live Recap: People-driven decision-making?
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  • 11 Jul 2023
Reflecting on the ICAEW Data Analytics Community’s first ever in-person event last month, Ian Pay, Head of Data Analytics and Tech, considers whether we’ve got it all wrong focusing on the data…
Exclusive Deep Learning: What is it really?
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  • 05 Jul 2023
In the previous part of the series, machine learning and its sub-categories were introduced and explained. In this article, we will dive further into the concept and application of deep learning, a fundamental cornerstone of the rise of generative AI.
Exclusive Utilising human centred analytics for effective measurement and reporting of ESG
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  • 05 Jul 2023
Dr Christina J Phillips from Liverpool John Moores University explores how Human Centric Analytics (HCA) could be a natural paradigm to use when defining, measuring, and reporting on Environmental and Social Governance (ESG). Tying together the need for a holistic societal approach to tackle the problems around social and environmental sustainability, and the need for reporting and measuring the levers of change in business, she considers what methods we can use to help us to do this, and how we can ensure that behaviours are embedded alongside measurement protocols such that change becomes re...
How finance teams can transform data and analytics processes to save time and innovate
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  • 14 Jul 2023
Today, finance teams are trying to stay afloat in a deepening pool of data and processes.
Exclusive How can we address the mess of UK addresses?
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  • 29 Mar 2023
Addresses matter. Some of the most fundamental questions and costs we face are linked to addressing and in the UK we have some of the best addressing on the planet yet there seems no universally accepted address format.
Exclusive Easier, better, faster stronger? Getting data from your clients: Q&A
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  • 29 Mar 2023
Following on from our webinar “Easier, better faster, stronger? Getting data from your clients”, Franki Hackett explores some of the questions raised by those who attended the live webinar.
Data extraction quality: getting it right every time
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  • 28 Mar 2023
As accountants and auditors move towards increasingly sophisticated tools to access and analyse data, it’s easy to think that we can automate our way out of the evidence quality problems that plague more manual forms of audit.
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