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The advice that businesses want most from their accountants
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- 16 Apr 2026
- ICAEW Insights
Small businesses, like Bhangra Blends, are looking for more support and guidance from their accountants, to not only understand the financial landscape but also gain tailored insights that help them navigate uncertainty and plan for future growth. Find out more about the key areas where businesses want advice.
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Key financial stability measures in law firms
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- 12 Mar 2026
- Sonia Fisher
The Carson McDowell review (commissioned by the Legal Services Board) focused on the SRA's regulation of SSB Law, but in doing so it revealed significant underlying financial instability within the firm. What would the outcome have been for SSB Law and its clients if this financial instability had been identified and acted upon quicker.
Planning for uncertainty: five tips for accountants
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- 17 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Struggling to plan growth or forecasts during the turbulent Trump tariffs? ICAEW offers practical support to help finance practitioners steer their organisations through uncertainty.
The secret to boosting morale and maximising profits
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- 04 Dec 2024
- Andre Thomas
Last month, I was invited by the ICAEW to deliver a webinar on how to attract and retain talent in three steps. This topic continues to be a major problem for law firms and accountancy practices across the UK. According to Gallup, disengaged employees is costing the UK economy £256 billion a year, which means that three out of five of your employees is a financial drain on your business.
How to ensure colleagues understand financial information
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- 27 Nov 2024
- ICAEW Insights
With local government budgets under pressure and more councils adopting commercialisation strategies, key stakeholders must have a strong grasp of financial information to aid sound decision-making.
Long read: Corporate carve-outs
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- 06 Jun 2024
- David Prosser
The carve-out has shot up the corporate priority list, as businesses look to focus on core strengths and improve profitability and return on capital. David Prosser reports.
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Leveraging maths and stats in Excel for deeper data insights – part 5
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- 30 Oct 2023
- John Tennent
Part 4 of this series explored a range of calendar functions for budgeting and interpreting monthly performance data. The fifth part of this series will delve techniques for forecasting revenue and bass diffusion curves to forecast future volumes and market shares.
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Leveraging maths and stats in Excel for deeper data insights – part 4
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- 27 Sep 2023
- John Tennent
Part 3 of this series explored regression analysis and methods to identify ‘lines of best fit’ through data and then use this to extrapolate future values. The fourth part of this series will deep dive into a range of calendar functions that help with budgeting and interpreting monthly performance data.
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.
Charting with Dynamic Arrays
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- 24 Oct 2022
- Liam Bastick
Charting has always been an important aspect of creating reports and dashboards in financial models. Given their importance, I thought I would turn my attention to a feature that is rolling out as I write – because it’s going to prove very useful. In Excel for the web and Excel Desktop (Insiders Beta), charts will now respond to dynamic arrays.
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.
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Excel Tip of the Week #399 Power pivot - KPIs
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- 17 Jun 2021
- David Lyford Smith
Hello all and welcome back to the Excel Tip of the Week! This week we have a Creator post in which we are going to look at how to build visual KPIs into PivotTables created with Power Pivot.
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What is open book management?
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- 17 May 2021
- Jennifer Jones
We look at the management style that gives everyone in the business a say
The finance team toolkit part 2: leadership and performance management
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- 22 Oct 2020
- ICAEW Insights
Finance transformation executive Neil Cutting outlines why having the appropriate leadership and performance management is crucial to a successful finance function transformation strategy.
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Make company transformation a success
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- 15 May 2019
- Mark Kissack, M'Bayang Thiam
How do businesses rise to the challenge of change? Mark Kissack and M'Bayang Thiam share their insight on making company transformation a success.
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Choosing the right KPIs
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 25 Jan 2016
- Mike Bourne
Do your internal resources give you a competitive advantage? Undertaking a Resource Based View could help to understand your organisation's competences and resources. Here we outline what the approach entails.
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Strategy Maps
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- 16 Dec 2015
Strategy Maps offer a useful way to analyse the strategic drivers of financial performance. Here we outline what they are and examples of how they work in practice.
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SWOT
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- 14 Dec 2015
- ICAEW
Make the most of analysing your organisation’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
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Lean
- Article
- 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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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
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- 02 Dec 2015
Systematically discuss how you will achieve your strategic objectives by implementing Success Mapping. Here we outline what it involves, potential benefits and pitfalls to be avoided.
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Informal controls and staff capabilities
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- 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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Case study: Focusing on your key success factors - direct sales kitchen company
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- 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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