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We offer a mix of relevant technical and soft skill material with a business focus, to assist with your career and help meet your CPD requirements.
Business and Management Faculty
Stay ahead with our practical business guidance created exclusively for finance professionals. Drive the performance of your organisation, access invaluable resources to support your professional development and connect with CFOs, FDs and FCs.
Featured items
In this section
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: September 2020
This issue includes: How covid exposed the economic system, Healthy body, healthy mind, Harnessing the power of an ageing workforce, The future of public transport, Take control of your business controls, Developing the right culture, Employee ownership – the future, Brexit eye – September 2020, Why you should train your staff.
Business and Management: July August 2020
This issue includes: How to communicate better, Brexit eye – August 2020, Tourism in the UK – post covid, Returning to the office post covid, The future of Agriculture, What is a post furlough world? and The virtual job interview.
Business and Management: June 2020
This issue includes: Adjust to the new world of work, how to separate work and home, the future of retailing, the way out of lockdown, Brexit eye: June 2020, how to be resilient, make your supply chain stronger.
Business and Management: May 2020
This issue includes: How to start your own business, mental health awareness, creating a succession plan, how accountants are changing, the business model of sport, how the luxury market works, the economic impact of Covid-19.
Podcasts and recordings
Resources from past events and webinars including slides, interviews with speakers and webcasts.
Better people management
Practical ways to help improve your people management skills including being able to deal with difficult situations.
Simple techniques to improve communication
Learn how to communicate clearly and get people on your side.
Economic update 2020
Expert insights into the latest economic update and political landscape.
Top tips for securing board level support for counter fraud
An overview of why it is important to gain board level support for counter fraud activity and create an ethical culture in your organisation.
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 net present value of happiness
Many of us look towards the future for our happiness; the end of a project, the next promotion, the next career move. Join us to find out how we account for this.
Strategic thinking for senior professionals
Find out what the three core questions of strategy are, and the common pitfalls to avoid in addressing them.
Leading resilient teams
Explore practical tools and techniques to help you manage stress and build a resilience management framework.
Common online frauds and how to avoid them
Practical tips on how to spot and avoid common online frauds you might come across in your professional and personal lives.
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 68: Commercial Insight
This special report explores how to be more commercial to add value and generate profit for your firm.
SR67 Problem solving
This month’s special report focuses on solving problems of all shapes and sizes in the workplace. Whatever your position in the hierarchy, there are practical hints and tips included to make your day-to-day work easier and more efficient.
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.
Quarterly briefings
Quarterly briefing - September 2020
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Quarterly briefing - June 2020
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Quarterly briefing - March 2020
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Quarterly briefing - December 2019
Our most popular articles, reports and upcoming webinars.
Technical updates
Regular technical updates on legal, tax and regulatory changes.
Technical update September 2020
Our regular round up of legal and regulatory change.
Technical update July August 2020
Our regular round up of legal and regulatory change
Technical update - June 2020
Our regular round up of legal and regulatory change.
Technical update May 2020
Our regular round up 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.