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Economic crime: red flags accountants should look out for
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  • 08 Jun 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Chartered accountants occupy a unique position in the fight against economic crime. Here we outline eight potential indicators of wrongdoing that might warrant further questions.
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How to identify AI errors in financial models
  • Article
  • 05 Jun 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
While artificial intelligence (AI) can now help build financial models much more effectively than it could even a year ago, it still needs close human review. Use this checklist to find errors.
Construction: how to make the new towns plan work
  • Article
  • 08 May 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
A recent ICAEW event produces fascinating insights from industry experts on how the government can ensure its initiative to create seven new UK towns is put on a firm footing.
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Pharmaceuticals: how to manage supply chain pressures
  • Article
  • 06 May 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Global pharmaceutical supply chains have come under enormous pressure in the wake of the latest conflict in the Middle East, but a focus on forward planning and resilience can help manage volatility.
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Getting the best from Copilot with Claude and ChatGPT
  • Article
  • 23 Apr 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Copilot now uses Anthropic’s Claude as well as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Here’s what that means for finance professionals, and how to make the most of both platforms through Copilot.
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How hospitality teams are embracing real-time analytics
  • Article
  • 17 Apr 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
With so many cost pressures facing hospitality businesses, the ability to analyse data in real time has never been more important for cost management.
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Three new roles finance teams might expect within the next five years
  • Article
  • 07 Apr 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Increasing automation over the past two decades has gradually been transforming finance teams. Since then, AI has taken the world by storm and businesses have been quick to leverage its capabilities, creating potential for new roles within the next five years.
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The five best Power BI functions for financial planning and analysis
  • Article
  • 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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AI in Excel: the pros and cons
  • Article
  • 06 Jan 2026
  • ICAEW Insights
Financial modelling guru Ian Schnoor takes us through the benefits and drawbacks of AI’s march across the face of Excel.
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How to do the basics better in Excel
  • Article
  • 04 Dec 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
These five Excel hacks will speed up the basics of building an Excel spreadsheet.
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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.
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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.
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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
  • Article
  • 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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High frequency forecasting: how to modernise your financial modelling
  • Article
  • 17 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
With a plethora of tech tools available on the market to assist with high-frequency forecasting, what do accountants need to know about the art of selection?
CFO confidence in cash-flow data remains low
  • Article
  • 14 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Organisations that haven’t automated their systems still struggle with real-time cash-flow visibility.
Tech won’t save the world – nature will
  • Article
  • 24 Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The simplest of tools can have the greatest impact, believes the team behind the Deshkan Ziibi Conservation Impact Bond, winner of a Finance for the Future Climate Leadership Award.
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
  • Article
  • 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
  • Article
  • 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.
Exclusive Accountants harnessing the power of tech
  • Article
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Craig Stirk
Tech allows for continuous monitoring of financials; take advantage
Exclusive When is an accountant not an accountant?
  • Article
  • 17 Mar 2021
  • Steve Benham
Accountants need to present the benefits they bring more directly
Exclusive Driver Based Budgeting
  • Article
  • 11 Dec 2015
The following BPM tool guide is one of a series produced for ICAEW by Professor Mike Bourne of Cranfield University.
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