This section brings together the most up-to-date thought leadership, technical resources and professional guidance for ICAEW members in business. It also includes the more specialist information provided by ICAEW’s Business and Management Faculty.
Why FP&A is vital to the progressive CFO
IA’s important role in a strong organisation
Innovation tools to assist in changing your Finance team.
Why it’s imperative for businesses to have robust plans in place to deal with the outbreak and mitigate disaster.
Accountants need to present the benefits they bring more directly
Use the right indicators for your forecast
How to build your brand to win over your target
Reinforcing your supply chain will avert disaster
This guide, created exclusively for Business and Management Faculty members, sets out one approach to scenario planning which finance professionals may wish to consider when planning for the future.
Forecasting is an essential skill for finance professionals and managers. Business decisions of all kinds depend on effective approaches to looking ahead. This guide outlines the core principles of “Superforecasting” which will help you develop your forecasting skills.
In this brief guide we define several techniques and identify what they are best suited to achieve and some traps to avoid.
Finance professionals are key in supporting their businesses through the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. Most will be urgently working through the issues and helping their businesses respond. The purpose of this guide is to share six practical actions finance professionals may wish to consider when considering cashflow.
The challenges of maintaining efficiency, demystified
The role of the CFO is evolving and pressure increasing
This article discusses how businesses can retain the ability to change and innovate quickly by reviewing which controls proved unnecessary during the pandemic.
Innovation tools to assist in changing your Finance team.
Considering making a move from a practice or established corporate world into a start-up, or exploring expanding your portfolio into this space? Hear insights and experience from our panel of speakers.
Assessing how retail will survive post-covid in the new world
Prices are increasing each month, a deeper look at the industry
Looking at what a Biden term may look like
Empathetic management improves business, learn how
Looking at salaries in the Finance sector in 2020
The resources that you need to help you develop
Make the most of meetings with colleagues at the office and home
Audit Committees are playing an increasingly critical corporate governance role in terms of their leadership on financial reporting, internal controls, risk management and the internal and external audit functions.
Succession planning for board members, both senior executives & NEDS – it’s an area that is often on the to do list but needs to be documented, shared and reviewed. A panel of respected board members and specialist advisors consider the current state of play and what organisations need to do to be on the front foot.
Excessive pay has been a growing source of public anger in recent years. Despite being snobbishly dismissed as populist prejudices, public perceptions of executive pay practices are largely accurate.
This practical guide outlines the eight steps to follow to conduct a successful internal audit of culture.
While COVID closed off traditional micro-business funding opportunities, other options have emerged which play into the strengths of entrepreneurs from more diverse backgrounds.
A new strategy promising to create the right conditions for businesses to turn scientific and technical innovations into new products and services has been laid out by government.
ICAEW’s response to the BEIS consultation on restoring trust in audit and corporate governance did not conclude work on reform - it launched a mass of activity around numerous topics involving a multitude of stakeholders.
The FCA’s latest discussion paper on diversity and inclusion in financial services outlines what needs to happen to improve representation, but how will it work in practice?