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Your membership: Network with your peers
  • 04 Dec 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Want to grow your network of like-minded accountants? ICAEW has faculties and communities that cover industry sectors, technical areas and career stages. Gain access to tailored events and resources.
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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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AI agents: four use cases for accountants
  • 24 Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Even at a relatively nascent stage, agentic AI is showing that it has the capability to revolutionise how finance professionals manage a range of important tasks.
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How Bloom & Wild solved month-end madness with AI
  • 10 Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
With an overwhelmed financial reporting team, Bloom & Wild turned to AI to speed up processes.
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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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How are boards managing an increasing varied set of risks?
  • 07 Oct 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Risk management cannot focus on financial resilience alone. For organisations to remain competitive, their board members must take a holistic view. Find out how.
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FCA sheds light on private market valuations best practice
  • 06 Oct 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
A recent FCA review of private market valuations highlights the importance of independence, expertise, transparency and consistency. The regulator shared its expectations on best practice at ICAEW’s Valuations Conference.
HMRC restarts direct recovery of debts
  • 26 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Where an individual or business has a tax debt that they are refusing to pay, despite having the means to pay it, HMRC will consider recovering the funds it is owed directly from the person’s bank or building society account.
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The 10 best shortcuts in Excel 2025
  • 23 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Every accountant should know these Excel shortcuts because the value of them isn’t just speed. It’s also clarity, consistency, and auditability.
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Making the most of Excel’s dynamic arrays
  • 15 Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Providing a handy means to simplify Excel workflows, dynamic arrays make other functions much easier to use – but their outputs require careful management.
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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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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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Cash-flow pitfalls for scale-ups
  • 31 Jul 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
How to grow: scaling up can strain even the healthiest businesses. In an unpredictable economic climate, having strong cash-flow management isn’t just a best practice, it’s a survival skill.
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Free CPD: soft skills for leaders
  • 16 Jul 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
If you’re in a leadership role, an aspiring CFO, or even a CFO looking to become CEO, having strong people skills is essential for success. ICAEW has a range of CPD-verifiable resources to support you on your leadership journey.
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Lessons for CFOs from a construction industry demise
  • 17 Jun 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW member Pete Duff, the former CFO of construction company Osborne, which collapsed in April last year, reflects on the lessons from its demise and what others in the sector can learn from the experience.
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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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Navigating tariffs: four considerations for auditors
  • 29 Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
The introduction of enhanced tariffs by the current US administration will inevitably place a strain on many UK-based and global businesses.
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Public sector net debt more than £95,000 per household
  • 24 Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
The provisional deficit for the year to March 2025 of £152bn is £21bn more than in 2023/24, and £15bn more than was estimated by the OBR at the time of the Spring Statement 2025.
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Planning for uncertainty: five tips for accountants
  • 17 Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Struggling to plan growth or forecasts during the turbulent Trump tariffs? ICAEW offers practical support to help finance practitioners steer their organisations through uncertainty.
Scenario planning can help to navigate uncertainty
  • 16 Apr 2025
Exploring what the world could look like in the long-term, can help organisations to react to crises and be more confident in times of uncertainty. Read our seven steps to strategic scenario planning
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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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How to influence as a finance leader
  • 27 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Influencing skills are increasingly important for accountants; they need to communicate and persuade stakeholders to make informed decisions based on their analysis, alongside producing real-time, accurate financial data.
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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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Chart of the week: the end of year capital rush
  • 07 Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Our chart this week highlights the big rush in UK public sector capital expenditure in the final quarter of each financial year, prompting us to ask why March is the best time of the year to build new assets.
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NAO guide to aid financial management in government
  • 30 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
The latest in a series of best practice guides brings together feedback from experts including ICAEW and highlights the need to spend smarter against a backdrop of tight public funds.
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Member profile: Steve Showell, CFO, Ordnance Survey
  • 28 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
A varied career has allowed Steve Showell to chart a path to his current role as CFO of Ordnance Survey. He talks us through its plans for growth and explains how mapping is a significant driver of UK economic growth.
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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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Help shape IFRS 18 in the UK and improve cash flow statements
  • 14 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW invites practitioners to share their views on the endorsement of IFRS 18 in the UK and how the statement of cash flows could be improved.
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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.
ICAEW suggests better ways to reduce FTT’s costs
  • 17 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Proposals to reduce the number of written decisions published by the First-tier Tribunal (FTT), and to cut the application time limit, would not deliver the intended cost savings, says ICAEW.
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