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Three ways Power BI can improve management accounts
  • 17 Feb 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
With its collaborative format, insightful analysis tools and visual user experience, Power BI makes management accounts dynamic and keeps key performance indicators relevant.
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The five best Power BI functions for financial planning and analysis
  • 11 Feb 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Power BI offers a set of powerful capabilities that enable accountants to perform much more thorough, intuitive and flexible analysis than what is achievable with Excel alone.
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How to use Power BI for month end
  • 05 Feb 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Power BI can speed up month-end processes by as much as 80% and make it a calmer, more reliable process, according to experts.
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How to shift from Power Query to Power BI
  • 19 Dec 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Getting started with Power BI doesn’t have to be daunting. Here’s how you can make the transition.
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Four questions to ask when implementing cloud software
  • 09 Dec 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
As ICAEW issues a software adoption checklist for accounting firms and finance teams, here are some of the critical questions you need to ask of software vendors.
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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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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.
Network and learn with your peers in 2025
  • 16 Jul 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW hosts a variety of virtual and in-person events that members can attend for free, hearing from experts while sharing knowledge with their peers. Discover what’s going on for the rest of the year and how to sign up.
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What to learn from the M&S and Co-op cyber attacks
  • 20 May 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Recent hacks against some of the UK’s biggest retailers send a strong message to every sector, according to representatives of ICAEW’s Tech Faculty Board.
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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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How to navigate software platform migration
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Whether driven by cost, functionality, security or compliance, software migration is a complex process that requires careful planning. ICAEW highlights key considerations for practices and businesses looking to migrate.
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AI skills gap is a ticking time bomb
  • 13 Nov 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Estimates predict that with the adoption of AI technology, 40% of the workforce will need to re-skill in the next three years. So what’s the risk of losing your competitive edge if you fail to upskill your staff?
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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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AI use cases: eight ways AI can help
  • 29 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
AI can be used for a variety of tasks to assist accountants in business and practice. Here are eight ways in which AI can help increase productivity and efficiency in finance and accounting teams.
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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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Have you tested your IT resilience?
  • 24 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
When an IT update causes systemic disruption, how should businesses and their advisers respond in terms of their own IT testing and planning?
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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.
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Government extends deadline for AI skills grants
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Accountancy firms now have until 18 August to apply for grants under the pilot of the government’s new AI Upskilling Fund, after the government extended the deadline by 11 weeks.
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Over-reliance on automation: a cautionary tale from Plato
  • 27 May 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
The dangers of too much tech are not a new concern – Konrad Bukowski-Kruszyna explains why accountants can take a sceptical cue from the ancient Greeks when it comes to AI.
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Corporate data: a new type of intangible
  • 08 May 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Research by ICAEW and the China Accounting Standard Committee highlights the challenges of accounting for corporate data resources and suggests a new framework for their treatment in financial statements.
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