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Getting to yes - persuading clients to give you their data

Author: ICAEW Data Analytics Community

Published: 02 Oct 2025

Expert advice on introducing clients to a new way of doing data.

You’ve transformed your delivery model and implemented the latest data analytics technologies. But now comes the hardest part of all: getting your clients to embrace them. Good analysis requires good data, but in the world of audit and accounting, good data relies on clients being willing to provide what you need, when you need it, in the format that you need it in. This can be where many innovative approaches fall down. And it's not just clients — for many businesses, obtaining good quality, timely data from other departments can be easier said than done. 

In this webinar, hear from experts with over 25 years of combined experience in how to win key stakeholders round to the idea of giving you their data differently. Starting from the principles of why good quality data is so important to an analytics-led approach, prepare to be guided through some of the common pushbacks, questions and excuses that are given for wanting to stick with the status quo, and how you can win over your stakeholders and get them to say ‘yes’ to giving you the data you want.

First broadcast on 2 October 2025

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