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27 August: HMRC’s plans to tackle abuse of the construction industry scheme (CIS) would create a burden disproportionate to the relatively small amount of revenue at stake and affect many compliant businesses, ICAEW has warned.
28 August: The Redmond review on local government audit is expected to report on 8 September, but who are the interested parties and what are their concerns?
27 August 2020: ICAEW have teamed up with leading finance educational course provider Kaplan to launch a Data Analytics Certificate. The certificate will be launched in November 2020.
27 August: Virtual reality has been around since the 1990s, though only in recent years has it gained real traction in both professional and consumer environments.
26 August 2020: A new MBA aimed at aspiring Chief Value Officers is being offered by Audencia in France. ICAEW is a partner in the programme. How does the Executive MBA Chief Value Officer accommodate post-COVID thinking?
25 August 2020: When lockdown was instigated in March, local ICAEW groups and societies across the country had CPD calendars crammed with physical training courses. The lockdown brought with it an opportunity for all these programmes to be converted to fully virtual offerings, a move which has been positively received by ICAEW’s members.
25 August 2020: These have been extraordinary times and not always investment friendly, but what can be done to stave off further shocks? As part of a series of sponsored articles, ICAEW Insights ask Dr Adam Parker, Head of Midlands Investment Management at Tilney.
21 August 2020: Ministers insulated older employees from public sector pension reforms in 2015, despite advice saying not to. The courts found this was age discrimination, resulting in a £31bn charge in the Whole of Government Accounts.
19 August: Small businesses in England are set to benefit from a new tranche of government grants designed to help them recover from the impact of coronavirus through professional advice - including guidance from accountants.
19 August: The Treasury has recently clarified several grey areas relating to the obligation to report discrepancies in the People with Significant Control register.
18 August: Two new publications from HMRC outline its approach to collecting tax debt and highlight the importance of early discussions with debt management when problems are anticipated.
18 August 2020: John Horgan, former Deputy CEO for EMIA of global engineering firm AECOM, tells us what policy recommendations he would make based on his experience as a businessman and engineer.