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How to do the basics better in Excel
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- 04 Dec 2025
- ICAEW Insights
These five Excel hacks will speed up the basics of building an Excel spreadsheet.
How are boards managing an increasing varied set of risks?
- Article
- 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.
The 10 best shortcuts in Excel 2025
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- 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.
Making the most of Excel’s dynamic arrays
- Article
- 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.
Scenario planning can help to navigate uncertainty
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- 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
How to get TCFD scenario analysis right
- Article
- 14 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
With many of its underlying requirements open to interpretation, TCFD scenario analysis is a complex area for accountants to navigate. Here is an overview of the main guidance gaps, why they matter – and what companies should do to bridge them.
Ukraine crisis highlights need for scenario planning
- Article
- 24 Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Uncertainty in business is rife – no more so than at the moment. But having formalised risk management processes in place allow you to better respond to changing circumstances.
Boards, strategic risk and dealing with uncertainty: looking at scenario planning
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- 22 Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Now more than ever boards need to prepare for strategic risks and look beyond short-term forecasts by using long-term scenario planning and risk modelling.
NAO January round-up: including good practice in public sector reporting
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- 11 Feb 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Latest reports from the National Audit Office, including an interactive guide setting out good practice principles for annual reports, with examples from the public, private and charity sectors.
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Accountants harnessing the power of tech
- Article
- 16 Nov 2021
- Craig Stirk
Tech allows for continuous monitoring of financials; take advantage
Making sense of climate-related scenario analysis
- Article
- 09 Jun 2021
- ICAEW Insights
In line with its existing work on climate change, the FRC is running a Scenario Analysis Research Project and is seeking input from FTSE 350 companies.
Are you using the right tool for the job?
- Article
- 29 Dec 2020
- Rick Payne
In this brief guide we define several techniques and identify what they are best suited to achieve and some traps to avoid.
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Forecasting, done right
- Article
- 13 Nov 2020
- Nick Tiley
Use the right indicators for your forecast
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Getting your financial models right
- Article
- 15 May 2019
- Business and Management Faculty
Financial models are vital tools in modern business, but are highly susceptible to being ruined by their creators' bad habits. ICAEW decided to turn this situation around by developing a new code of practice.
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Making use of all your information
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- 04 Feb 2019
- Matthew Leitch
How can we help accountants make use of all the information they generate?
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Probability management
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- 22 Oct 2018
- Matthew Leitch
Matthew Leitch discusses the most interesting developments in forecasting and decision-making.
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AI is not magic
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- 30 Jul 2018
- Avi Goldfarb
Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation make the seemingly impossible possible. They magically bring machines to life – driving cars, trading stocks, teaching children or providing healthcare. In Prediction Machines, Avi Goldfarb and two fellow economists debunk this magical myth and recast the rise of AI as nothing more than a drop in the cost of prediction.
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Is Excel bad for you
- Article
- 12 Dec 2017
- David Parmenter | Leo Waldock
Experts share their views on spreadsheet strengths and weaknesses and whether they have any distance left to run.
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The science of business guessing
- Article
- 13 Jun 2017
- Matthew Leitch
Sometimes it’s not possible to get more information, do a proper spreadsheet analysis, or calculate a forecast or estimate – we just have to guess. Matthew Leitch asks what science can teach us about how to guess well.
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Debunking sampling myths
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- 08 Mar 2017
- Matthew Leitch
Matthew Leitch explains some widespread myths about sample sizes and illustrates some effects that may surprise you.
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Light the way ahead
- Article
- 18 Jul 2016
- Paul Golden
Driver-based planning and rolling forecasting are widely used by larger companies, but what about SMEs? Paul golden examines the various approaches.
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Visualise this - Financial modelling and forecasting
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- 12 Jun 2015
- Mike Younger
How do you display profit and loss results so they can be quickly interpreted? Mike Younger, FD of Ian Macleod Distillers, explains the methods he uses to show company comparative trading performances.
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Survival of the fittest in business
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- 01 Mar 2012
- Steve Coomber
Smarter ways of working and new technologies disrupt the way business is done. Keeping your business model flexible to change can help you stay competitive. Steve Coomber takes us through the latest thinking.
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Rolling forecasts: a guide for finance
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- 28 Mar 2008
- Paul Clarke
Many finance directors are using or thinking about implementing rolling forecasts, alongside traditional budgeting. Here Paul Clarke discusses how to make the most out of yours.
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