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‘Boring’ policies will address economic challenges
  • Article
  • 19 Apr 2024
New policy solutions to problems facing the UK economy will be prosaic but important, Conservative Party Forum Chair John Penrose MP told a round table this week.
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Chart of the week: IMF Fiscal Monitor
  • Article
  • 19 Apr 2024
Our chart this week finds that the UK is ranking highly in the IMF’s latest five-year forecasts for general government net debt.
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Chart of the week: Public spending crunch
  • Article
  • 12 Apr 2024
Public spend as a share of the economy must fall over the next five years to make the sums add up – a big challenge for the next government.
Economic update: why the recession may soon be over
  • Article
  • 08 Apr 2024
The UK’s recession appears to be ending with cuts to summer interest rate likely. ICAEW’s Economies Director Suren Thiru discusses the key points to watch.
ICAEW member insights: March 2024
  • Article
  • 04 Apr 2024
The Chancellor’s much anticipated Spring Budget dominated feedback from ICAEW members in March, although many were left underwhelmed by its content.
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Chart of the week: Retail sales
  • Article
  • 28 Mar 2024
Our chart this week looks at how retail sales have increased by 19.5% over the past five years, comprising a 1.4% fall in volumes and a 21.2% increase in prices.
Fiscal deficit still too high for comfort
  • Article
  • 25 Mar 2024
Only a small improvement in the year-to-date deficit of £107bn reported in the penultimate monthly public finance release for 2023/24, over the same period a year ago.
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Chart of the week: Core inflation
  • Article
  • 21 Mar 2024
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee held interest rates constant at its latest meeting, despite CPI falling to 3.4% in February and core inflation dropping to 4.5%.
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Economic Insight

UK Business Confidence Monitor

One of the largest and most comprehensive quarterly surveys of UK business confidence, based on 1,000 member interviews. Quarterly national, regional and sector reports are available.
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Reports

Exclusive Special Report 67- Problem solving
  • 2020
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.
Boosting finance for the UK's Industrial Strategy
  • 2018
  • PDF (589kb)
The government published its white paper Industrial Strategy: Building a Britain Fit for the Future on 27 November 2017. We've grouped together three major elements of the Industrial Strategy: four ‘Grand Challenges’, the new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and sector deals.
Exclusive Special Report 61: The UK economy
  • 2018
  • PDF (1,617kb)
This report explores many of the hot topics now facing the UK and global economy.
Exclusive Special Report 49: Skills and Productivity
  • 2015
  • PDF (2,470kb)
This report provides the background and some explanations of the issues surrounding UK productivity including articles by leading think tanks and economists exploring the background and possible reasons for the UK's relatively poor performance.
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eBooks

The ICAEW Library & Information Service provides full text access to a selection of key business and reference eBooks from leading publishers. eBooks are available to logged-in ICAEW members, ACA students and other entitled users. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support advice or contact library@icaew.com.

Exclusive Dictionary of finance and banking
  • eBook
  • 2018
  • Jonathan Law
  • Oxford University Press
This sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully revised and updated to take into account the ever-developing financial landscape of the last five years. This comprehensive A-Z defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including money markets, private investments and borrowing, central banking, foreign exchanges, monetary policy, and public and government finance.
Exclusive No small change: why financial services needs a new kind of marketing
  • eBook
  • 2018
  • Lucian Camp, Anthony Thomson
  • Wiley
This book takes the form of a 13-point practical manifesto arguing that the fast-changing financial services world urgently needs to rethink the whole of its approach to marketing. The thirteen chapters look at the key components of the new approach.
Exclusive Financial regulation in the EU: from resilience to growth
  • eBook
  • 2017
  • Sonia Mckay, Andrea Oates, Glynis Morris
  • Palgrave Macmillan
This publication looks to provide a bigger picture view of the impact and future of financial regulation in the EU, exploring the relationship between microeconomic incentives and macroeconomic growth, regulation and financial integration, and the changes required in economic policy to further European integration.
Exclusive Financial Times guide to foreign exchange trading
  • eBook
  • 2015
  • Stuart Fieldhouse
  • FT Publishing International
An introduction to the foreign exchange marketplace, showing how the markets work, how to trade them successfully and how to mitigate risk.
Exclusive Mastering financial mathematics in Microsoft Excel: a practical guide to business calculations (3rd edition)
  • eBook
  • 2015
  • Alastair Day
  • FT Publishing International
Fully updated and compliant with Excel 2013, this clearly explains the basic calculations for mathematical finance, backed up with simple templates for further use and development, and a workbook with exercises and solutions at the end of each chapter
Exclusive Property valuation principles
  • eBook
  • 2012
  • David Isaac, John O'Leary
  • Palgrave Macmillan
Provides an introduction to property valuation. Discusses on the impact of sustainability on valuation; contains photographs to illustrate different property characteristics as well as worked examples, including buy-to-let residential properties and affordable housing.
Exclusive Managing commodity price risk: a supply chain perspective
  • eBook
  • 2012
  • Janet L. Hartley, George A. Zsidisin
  • Business Expert Press
Managing price volatility from a US perspective.
Exclusive Designing the networked organisation
  • eBook
  • 2011
  • Ken Everett
  • Business Expert Press
A proposal for a new model of business organisation based on networks rather than hierarchies.
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External resources - statistics and reports

KPMG Global Economic Outlook
  • KPMG
KPMG's regular quarterly Global Economic Outlook looks at prospects for the global economy, providing economic forecasts and analysis from KPMG’s global team of economists in territories and regions throughout the world.
OECD UK Economic snapshot
  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
OECD snapshot of the UK economy, providing economic projection data and covering structural reform priorities.
Office for National Statistics: Economy
  • Office for National Statistics
Data on UK economic activity, covering production, distribution, consumption and trade of goods and services.
UK Economic Outlook
  • PwC
PwC's latest bi-annual analysis of the UK economy, spotlighting growth, inflation and the labour market.
UK Inflation Tracker
  • PwC
PwC visualisation of the latest UK Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, with accompanying commentary. The tracker visualises some of the most common categories in order to understand the market trends in inflation. The data is updated monthly as new data is released.
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