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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.
How to track your invoices and debtors effectively
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- 27 Sep 2023
- Wolters Kluwer
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).
PIE audit market dynamics under the spotlight
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- 15 Aug 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Amid policymaker concerns about the resilience of the market, lowering existing barriers to entry is key, alongside audit committees and shareholders being more open to PIEs using a broader field of players.
Investors remain cautious – but have money to spend
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- 30 May 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Differentiation, IP, barriers to entry, market outlook and resilience are just some of the issues investors will want the lowdown on for companies seeking equity investment.
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.
Climate risk is an “inescapable” part of chartered accountants’ remit
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- 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
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- 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
People and Planet in the Accounts: let’s measure what we treasure
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- 24 Nov 2020
- ICAEW Insights
Coca-Cola European Partners has been measuring business parameters for years. Michael Clark explains why this makes sound business sense and feeds the sustainability agenda.
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.
Learning curve: Use OKRs to boost your team's work
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- 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
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- 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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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?
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SWOT
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- 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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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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Number crunching
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- 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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