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How to track your invoices and debtors effectively
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- 27 Sep 2023
- ICAEW
41% of finance leaders identify a lack of visibility over their accounts receivables as their company’s top challenge in better managing cash flow (Bottomline).
How small actions can lead to big results
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- 15 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
The principles of ‘everyday actions’ can transform business performance and help teams through financial challenges. Mitali Kelly ACA explains how.
Service performance reporting in the public sector
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- 09 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
In New Zealand, a shift away from the terminology of inputs, outputs and outcomes to allow public sector organisations to choose how to tell their service performance stories is boosting accountability.
Taking an integrated approach to sustainability
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- 12 Jan 2022
- ICAEW Insights
The impact of digitisation, water scarcity and climate change on Yara, a global fertiliser company, was the trigger for a review of its key performance indicators.
30+ KPIs the modern accountant should be tracking
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- 19 Nov 2021
- ICAEW
KPIs don’t begin and end at turnover, return and profit. They tell a clear story of your business. Most accountants love numbers and mapping data. You advise clients on a financial, tax and organisational level. But do you look at the numbers and data within your practice?
Climate risk is an “inescapable” part of chartered accountants’ remit
- Article
- 01 Nov 2021
- ICAEW Insights
For those looking to future-proof their career, being able to embed climate change and wider sustainability issues into business strategy and planning, risk management, procurement and performance management is essential.
COVID drives huge variations in business performance
- Article
- 19 May 2021
- ICAEW Insights
The UK economy can be divided into three segments, depending on how businesses have coped with the pandemic, as Metro Bank’s local director in Cambridge explains.
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What is open book management?
- Article
- 17 May 2021
- Jennifer Jones
We look at the management style that gives everyone in the business a say
Black History Month summit speaker Lanre Sulola
- Article
- 06 Nov 2020
Founder and CEO of Inner Ambitions, ACA Lanre Sulola's strong commercial and financial background has been a key asset to a wide range of clients in stimulating business and personal performance improvement.
The finance team toolkit: leadership and performance management
- Article
- 21 Oct 2020
22 October 2020: Finance transformation executive Neil Cutting outlines why having the appropriate leadership and performance management is crucial to a successful finance function transformation strategy.
Learning curve: Use OKRs to boost your team's work
- Article
- 12 Sep 2020
The role of finance professionals is changing quickly, and a different type of performance management could make that change easier, finds Cath Everett
Five tips for effective scenario planning
- Article
- 09 Sep 2020
- Business and Management Faculty
This guide, created by the ICAEW Business and Management Faculty, shares five practical tips finance professionals may wish to consider when preparing forecasts and planning for the future.
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Choosing the right KPIs
- Article
- 17 May 2018
- Lauren Razavi
Finance professionals talk to Lauren Razavi about harnessing their company’s hidden depths for success.
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KPI implementation
- Article
- 08 Feb 2018
- David Parmenter
With the use of key performance indicator projects, it’s easy to be unsuccessful. David Parmenter discusses how businesses can avoid failure.
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Error reduction and risk
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- 13 Dec 2017
- Matthew Leitch
Matthew Leitch examines how accounting skills make you useful outside the finance department.
Business performance management: When not to measure
- Article
- 02 Mar 2017
- Dr Chris Ford
When not to measure, provides some ideas on why measurement systems are not resulting in the behaviours your organisation desires.
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Statistical Process Control
- Article
- 27 Jan 2016
The following BPM tool guide is one of a series produced for ICAEW by Professor Mike Bourne of Cranfield University.
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Levers of Control
- Article
- 27 Jan 2016
The following BPM tool guide is one of a series produced for ICAEW by Professor Mike Bourne of Cranfield University.
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Resource Based View of the Firm
- Article
- 25 Jan 2016
- Mike Bourne
Do your internal resources give you a competitive advantage?
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SWOT
- Article
- 14 Dec 2015
Make the most of analysing your organisation’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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KPIs: BPM tool guide
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- 02 Dec 2015
The following BPM tool guide is one of a series produced for ICAEW by Professor Mike Bourne of Cranfield University.
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Success Mapping
- Article
- 02 Dec 2015
Systematically discuss how you will achieve your strategic objectives
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Case study: Focusing on your key success factors - direct sales kitchen company
- Article
- 25 Aug 2015
- Business Performance Management Community
BPM tensions were triggered when the organisational structure stopped the business focusing on operational measures.
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Informal controls and staff capabilities
- Article
- 25 Aug 2015
- Business Performance Management Community
In this case study business performance management tensions were triggered when the organisation outgrew its informal controls and staff did not possess the required skills.
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Number crunching
- Article
- 15 Jul 2015
- Robert Russell
The very power of statistics has led some to dismiss them as dammed lies. Robert Russell talks to Dr Ioannis Kyriakou about how to use them to analyse business performance.
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How to get your pricing strategy right and increase business profitability
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- 08 Apr 2015
- Andreas Hinterhuber
Value has to be the primary driver in setting a pricing strategy. Andreas Hinterhuber’s extensive research shows that business efforts to increase prices result in higher profitability than those to reduce costs. In this article he explains the key components for increased business profitability.
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Define the data attributes of your KPIs
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- 27 Aug 2014
- Business Performance Management Community
For KPIs to be used effectively they need to have certain attributes - define and record these here.
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Stake your claim
- Article
- 09 Jul 2014
- Adrienne Kouwenhoven
When a business needs to make an insurance claim, openness and truthfulness are key. Adrienne Kouwenhoven explains how businesses should deal with the claims process when faced with a major business interruption
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Overview of KPI's
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- 17 Jun 2014
- Business Performance Management Community
Data and key performance indicators (KPIs) are essential business tools. KPIs help organisations understand how well they are performing in relation to their strategic goals and objectives. Data is the ‘raw material’ that feeds KPIs as well as any business intelligence project or data analysis.
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