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Finance transformation articles

Read our latest features and articles on finance transformation topics, including change management, business partnering and finance function effectiveness.
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How to adapt your skills to deliver transformation benefits
  • 03 Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
When running a transformation project, you should always focus on the future state that you’re aiming for. Some of your skills as a finance and accounting professional can be adapted for this task.
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How to transform a business with AI
  • 02 Oct 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Two experts provide their thoughts on key considerations business leaders must have in mind when using AI to drive business transformation projects.
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Finance transformation: why willingness to learn (and fail) matters
  • 15 Aug 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Running a transformation project differs from the usual tasks of a finance function. You need to be comfortable not knowing anything.
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Finance transformation: how to measure and improve
  • 14 May 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Creating an action plan based on a gap analysis provides the foundation of a good finance transformation project. But without a solid plan for measuring and evaluating performance, it won’t deliver.
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How accountants can develop influencing skills
  • 03 Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Influencing should not aim to be an occasional task, but an everyday occurrence that seeks to build trust in a finance professional’s abilities and advice.
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Finance business partnering: five skills you need
  • 27 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Learn from two ICAEW experts how to master the skill of finance business partnering, which is rooted in relationships, influence, strategic thinking and commercial acumen.
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CFOs: how to nurture your relationship with the CEO
  • 20 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Sounding board, safe pair of hands, confidant – the CFO’s relationship with the CEO is a pivotal one. We look at how the partnership is evolving and analyse the skills you need to nurture it.
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How successful finance business partners work at local authorities
  • 21 Nov 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Finance business partners play a vital bridging role between the finance team and the wider organisation.
How to deal with payroll changes
  • 08 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty sets out the processes for employers to follow to avoid complications when changing payroll IDs (PIDs), software provider or payroll agent.
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Global finance teams failing to integrate sustainability
  • 14 May 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Rather than waiting for ‘perfect tools’, CFOs and finance teams need to start including sustainability questions into their systems and controls, experts warn.
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Why you need great influencing skills
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Accountants with the ability to influence others will be seen as trusted business partners and strategic aides – and may end up working on high-level tasks that don’t involve numbers.
How generative AI is set to disrupt finance
  • 20 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
As its capabilities grow, Gen-AI is poised to shake up the finance function in general and accountancy in particular – but its risks and drawbacks cannot be ignored.
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3 key takeaways from COP28
  • 10 Jan 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW Climate Change Manager Sarah Reay shares her thoughts from a whirlwind week of discussion and debate at the world’s most high-profile climate summit.
Leading digital transformation in finance
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
At the ICAEW Annual Conference this year, there was an overarching focus on the opportunities and responsibilities that technology brings for finance professionals and their organisations, and how it is reshaping the world of finance and accounting.
Delivering transformation: a lesson in project management
  • 06 Sep 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Finance transformation series: Neil Cutting advises CFOs and transformation leaders on the essential skill of project management.
ESG for SMEs: how to adapt your finance function
  • 18 Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Implementing ESG practices and procedures throughout the finance function presents team leaders with a host of challenges, as five experts explain.
Gap analysis: the transformation starts here
  • 18 Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Finance transformation series: getting started with a finance transformation project can be daunting, but Neil Cutting has an exercise to help you get moving
I know why transformation projects fail
  • 02 Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The vast majority of business transformations do not get off the ground. Neil Cutting has the answer.
Creating a development plan to future proof your career
  • 11 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Executive coach Oliver Deacon and ICAEW Head of Jobs Claire Brandon provide tips on how to develop and showcase your skills to make yourself stand out and keep pace with changing finance functions.
Six essential skills for new and aspiring managers
  • 06 Jul 2023
  • Chris Paterson
If you’ve just been promoted to management, or you’re looking to take that next step, ICAEW trainer and executive coach Chris Paterson shares his tips for leading a high-performing finance team.
The finance team toolkit part 6: applying systems and technology
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
In our ongoing series on good finance transformation, Neil Cutting explains how systems and technology fit within every element of the project.
Cash remains king as businesses gear up for growth
  • 17 Apr 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Why finance functions tightened their cash management and forecasting during the pandemic – and how those good habits have remained.
Using technology to optimise audit talent
  • 27 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
New technologies are having a profound impact on audit and finance functions. Cloud, AI, blockchain and data and analytics are transforming the skills and focus of audit professionals.
The finance team toolkit part 4: the right people
  • 17 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
If the current war for talent shows us anything, it’s that systems and processes are nothing without talented people. Here finance transformation executive, Neil Cutting focuses on the ‘people pillar’ of organisational transformation.
ICAEW: Cuts to public sector finance teams are “false economies”
  • 22 Nov 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW describes investment in strong finance functions as “critical” to spending public money effectively amidst tight spending settlements for public bodies
How small actions can lead to big results
  • 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.
International Stress Awareness Week: managing stress at work
  • 10 Nov 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Experts in management, leadership and business transformation share the best practice for accountants when it comes to handling stress management.
Sustainability: Finance at the heart of decision making
  • 04 Nov 2022
  • Nina Johansson and Henning Diederichs
Sustainability is commonly defined as meeting today’s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. But sustainability covers more than just the environment – it also relates to ethical, societal and governance issues. ICAEW and CIPFA strongly advocate for the role that the finance function can play in combatting the impact of climate change for the public sector.
New ways of working: tax legislation needs to adapt
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • ICAEW
The explosion in home and remote working caused by the pandemic means that tax, social security, and visa rules need updating.
Facing the challenge of tech transformation
  • 05 Oct 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Finance teams must embrace finance transformation or face becoming obsolete, warns former Microsoft Finance Director Oliver Deacon. He shares his vision of the technologies that will shape the jobs of tomorrow.
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