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How to do the basics better in Excel
  • 04 Dec 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
These five Excel hacks will speed up the basics of building an Excel spreadsheet.
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Foreign and AI threats grow
  • 28 Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Cyber espionage and foreign threats were a big topic this month, as the UK continues to focus on beefing up its national security and the resilience of critical infrastructure, operations and services.
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Excel at 40: six efficiency hacks for accountants
  • 31 Oct 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
As Excel celebrates its 40th birthday, Microsoft’s Chris Webb explains the features that will help accountants work smarter than ever.
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How information can be reported to make better financial management decisions in government
  • 28 Oct 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Chronic underinvestment in technology across central government is hampering effective financial management. However, a new National Audit Office guide outlines how skills, culture, reporting infrastructure and data must come together to underpin decision making.
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Stay safe in the digital era: password security
  • 25 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Despite the increasing risk of serious data breaches and cyberattacks, many organisations fall at the first hurdle, with poor password security opening the door to cybercriminals. We offer advice on making passwords more secure.
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Cyber security biggest risk as businesses reel from major attacks
  • 23 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Annual poll of Chief Internal Auditors highlights cyber security as the number one risk, with digital threats intensifying following attacks on European airports over the weekend and recent cyber breaches at M&S, the Co-op, Harrods, The North Face and Jaguar Land Rover.
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Where will AI assurance skills come from?
  • 16 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
What should an AI assurance skillset look like – and from which key learning sources should it be built? ICAEW’s Head of Tech Policy Esther Mallowah convened an expert panel to explore the topic at a special ICAEW event.
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Exam guide: Business Insight and Performance
  • 29 Aug 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Get a head start on your introduction to management accounting with this Certificate Level and ICAEW CFAB exam guide.
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How to supercharge your Excel analytics
  • 15 Aug 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Ever wondered how you can turn raw data into insight using tools like Power Query and Power Pivot? Excel expert and chartered accountant Mark Proctor has the answers.
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Preparing for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting
  • 16 Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
The movement towards potential legislation for ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting is a progressive step in promoting workplace equality. But what should employers be doing now to prepare?
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Cyber round-up: New frontiers for security
  • 27 Mar 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
This month’s cyber bulletin explores the latest in cyber security, looking at how the landscape is changing, with shifting geopolitical alliances and technology advancements, and many organisations still needing to get the basics right.
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Data analytics for auditors: five essentials
  • 07 Mar 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Data analytics is often overlooked in favour of flashier technologies, but it is a critical skill set for the modern auditor.
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The ABCD+ of technology: data
  • 04 Dec 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
In the fifth of our series on the biggest tech trends, ICAEW’s Head of Tech Ian Pay gives us the lowdown on data.
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Understanding AI: what is – and isn’t – artificial intelligence?
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
An in-depth awareness of AI is no longer the preserve of data science professionals or technology enthusiasts. In the first of two articles, BDO’s Paul Ekwere explains what AI actually is – and what it isn’t.
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Cyber: enhancing security when data sharing
  • 15 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Cyber Security Awareness Month: we consider the common cyber risks around data sharing and what processes, procedures and measures should be taken to mitigate them.
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I deepfaked myself. It was terrifyingly easy
  • 07 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
How easy is it for criminals to create a deepfake of someone? ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, decided to experiment with the technology.
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Five steps accountants must take when adopting AI
  • 02 Aug 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
According to attendees of a recent ICAEW round table, there are five points accountants need to be aware of to ensure that they can use AI reliably.
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AI set to boost productivity and jobs in accountancy
  • 15 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Accountancy and finance jobs are not immune from the AI revolution – and although AI won’t necessarily take your job, you’re going to need new skills to thrive. We offer tips to ensure you have the right skills.
EFRAG aids SMEs with new sustainability data standard
  • 06 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Exposure Draft proposes a simple reporting tool to help SMEs respond to requests for sustainability data from business partners such as banks, investors or larger company clients.
How to get started with generative AI
  • 12 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
With the increasing immersion of generative AI into the workplace, Franki Hackett, Head of Data Ethics at Engine B and Sarah Schlobohm, Data and AI Leader, discuss the skills accountants need to use it effectively.
Improving the quality of sustainability data
  • 14 Dec 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
The Open Data Institute has been working on sharing best practice in order to improve sustainability data. Getting consistency and quality out of that data still poses a challenge.
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Exam guides: the inside track on… Corporate Reporting, Strategic Business Management and Case Study
  • 07 Dec 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
In the last of our series of guides, tutors share their insights on the Advanced Level Corporate Reporting, Strategic Business Management and Case Study exams.
Time management skills for technological advances
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
The benefits and challenges with technology adoption are often two sides of the same coin. ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, explores some practical steps to overcome the technology paradox.
Head in the clouds: cyber risks and data protection
  • 28 Oct 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
There is a common misconception that in moving to cloud-based systems, your technology environment is less secure. ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, explores why this isn’t necessarily the case.
Achieving resilience in an increasingly digital world
  • 19 Jul 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Embracing rather than avoiding digital technologies is the key to digital resilience in the face of uncertainty.
HMRC responds to professional bodies on service standards
  • 05 Jul 2022
  • ICAEW
HMRC’s response to ICAEW and other professional bodies points to improvements made, albeit from a very low baseline. The performance dashboard is now live and confirms that there are continuing delays in dealing with correspondence.
How can buildings’ data support green growth and levelling up?
  • 05 Jan 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Innovative policymaking is required to make the UK’s housing stock fit for purpose in a net-zero world, says Craig Stirk, Chief Data Officer, Sprift.
How Eurobank got to grips with data analytics in internal audit
  • 07 Dec 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
During the worst of the pandemic, Eurobank’s internal audit team took the opportunity to develop its data literacy as pressures to perform increased.
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The income statement must speak to nature
  • 23 Jul 2021
A modified version of the value-added income statement that includes a provision for nature would play a key role in protecting biodiversity
Exclusive Why you should learn to code
  • 18 May 2021
  • Kirstin Gillon
What the python program offers and why it's so popular
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