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Business and Management Faculty
Resources to progress your career and drive your business.
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Business and Management magazine
Monthly magazine from the Business and Management Faculty, containing a wide range of news, views and articles on subjects such as accounting standards, outsourcing, strategy, corporate governance, marketing, tax, treasury, human factors and much more.
Business and Management: March 2020
This issue includes: Make your life work for you, negotiating the UKs exit from the EU, using soft skills for personal gain, meet your customers needs in a changing world, take full advantage of 5G for your business, wising up to climate change, industry in focus: Gambling, the Brydon review, money saving for fleet managers, digitally transforming your finance function.
Business and Management: February 2020
This issue includes: UK leaves the EU, tips to transform your finance team, new year predictions for 2020, IoT to save waste, can talent be learned, doing business in Russia, speaking up when something's wrong, drive your decisions with data, is it time to legalise marijuana, why productivity is so important.
BAM 280 December 2019/January 2020
This issue includes Pets in the office, Brexit eye, The non-technical skills you need tog et ahead, How to keep trading in the midst of Brexit, The fall of Thomas Cook, How to look after your IP, The rise of the union in 2019, Nine steps to take risk well.
BAM 279 November 2019
This issue includes Brexit eye, Priorities for internal audit, How to export to Asia, CFO diaries, How to avoid an employee strike, Is the conference dead, How to deal with bullying and harassment, The changing role of Treasury.
Podcasts and recordings
Resources from past events and webinars including slides, interviews with speakers and webcasts.
Do more in a day than you do in a week
Being effective is a crucial aspect of our wellbeing. This webinar explores some of the latest thinking and practical productivity hacks, leaving you with the capacity to clear the mind, define what's important to you and be as effective as you can be.
How to make the most of your life's work
This essential webinar will reveal the twelve proven ways to fast-track your career, and teach you how to learn from your mistakes, kickstart some good habits, kick out some bad ones and make the most of your life’s work.
Learning for your future
This webinar will help you change your approach to learning so that you are best placed to have the career and future you want.
Excel tips - What you need to know
John Tennent, Excel guru, will cover easy shortcuts to save you time dealing with the most common problems faced by Excel users.
Webinars and events
We have a varied programme of CPD lectures offering you the choice of meeting fellow members at our one hour events at Chartered Accountants’ Hall, or listening to our online webinars from the comfort of your office or home.
The power of networking
Grow your business through effective communication.
Do more in a day than you do in a week
The latest thinking and practical productivity hacks to increase your effectiveness.
What happens when everything generates data?
This webinar will explore how finance professionals can take advantage of this powerful technology.
How to network your way to success
Key insights and techniques to aid those who want to thrive and grow through the simple art of talking to people.
Special reports
An in-depth look at a major topic, written by specialists in each area. Replaced the previous Management Quarterly and Good Practice Guidelines series.
Special Report 66: Managing Change
Change is inevitable, it is all around us. Brexit, political upheaval, increasing regulation and a growing protectionist agenda make it incredibly difficult to run your business.BAM are here to help, with our special report on managing change, we can help successfully guide you through inevitable change with our practical tips and hands on approach.
Special Report 65 - Smart Reporting
This special report will be a handy go-to guide – we take you through the latest techniques and thinking behind the new smart world with which CFOs, and aspiring CFOs, must contend.
Special report 64: Managing People
Managing people is one of the most important skills needed to successfully navigate your way to the top of the corporate ladder. This report provides practical tips and advice on topics such as team management, dealing with difficult people and the effect of technology on recruitment.
Special Report 63: Innovation
Innovation is key to improving productivity and efficiency. This report covers the subject with practical and interesting articles.
Quarterly briefings
Quarterly briefing - March 2020
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Quarterly briefing - December 2019
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Quarterly briefing - September 2019
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Quarterly briefing - June 2019
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Technical updates
Regular technical updates on legal, tax and regulatory changes.
Technical update March 2020
Our regular round up of legal and regulatory changes.
Technical Update February 2020
Our regular roundup of legal and regulatory change.
Technical update - December 2019
Our regular round up of legal and regulatory changes
Technical update - November 2019
Our regular roundup of legal and regulatory change.
Thought leadership
Acting in the public interest: accounting for the vulnerable
View the 2019 PD Leake lecture given by Professor John Burns and Dr Stephen Jollands, Exeter University. Nicki Deeson, Amnesty International, gives a practitioner view.
The CFO and strategy – part 1: the nature of strategy
This report explores the nature of strategy as a first step in supporting CFOs their strategic role.
The finance function: A framework for analysis
How does your finance function compare and how do you deal with the inherent tensions we highlight?
Business performance management: When not to measure
When not to measure, provides some ideas on why measurement systems are not resulting in the behaviours your organisation desires.