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10 tips for goods import and export
- 21 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Since the UK left the EU on 31 December 2020, more businesses are required to classify movements of goods as imports and exports. Ruth Corkin and Ed Saltmarsh set out advice for businesses.
Help to Grow website unveiled to support businesses
- 06 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) launches a new centralised website, Help to Grow.
Government’s ‘Scale-Up Britain’ ambition under the spotlight
- 27 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Is the government’s bold vision for a UK Silicon Valley at odds with how start-ups and scale-ups are being managed at policy level?
Business planning in a time of uncertainty
- 24 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
With financial and economic upheaval a regular fixture on the business landscape, and with uncertainty rife, how should businesses approach forward planning?
Businesses must take action to weather geopolitical storms
- 23 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
As the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine approaches, Chartered IIA is urging business leaders to prepare for further geopolitical incidents as global pressures rise.
How to avoid progression block at your firm
- 20 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Young talent want to see a clear progression path if they are to commit themselves to an organisation. How can audit firms provide them with that path?
Businesses still face perfect storm of economic pressures
- 13 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Higher interest rates, a shortage of loans and a slow-down in the property market are knocking confidence – but careful planning and risk management may see businesses through a difficult year.
EY reveals support strategy to boost fintech start-ups
- 13 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
With explosive growth forecast for the fintech sector, we meet Mark Jannetta, the head of EY’s UK FinTech Lab, to find out how the Big Four firm is looking to help start-up fintechs get to the next stage.
ICAEW calls for emergency taskforce to tackle HMRC backlog
- 08 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Ministers must set up a taskforce to deal with the unacceptable delays at HMRC, which are holding back the UK’s economic growth, says ICAEW.
How businesses approach fraud risk: the audit committee view
- 27 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
What are the key factors behind the emergence of fraud risks and how should organisations ensure their controls are fit for purpose? Two experienced audit committee chairs provide their thoughts.
How to develop better governance around fraud prevention
- 26 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Fraud should concern everyone in a business, but the ultimate responsibility for fraud prevention lies with management. It’s why good governance matters.
UK business confidence crashes to 13-year low
- 26 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
ICAEW’s latest Business Confidence Monitor finds a weakened economy and depleting customer demand have caused confidence to plunge to 2009 global financial crisis levels.
Using audit technology to address fraud
- 24 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
In anticipation of long-awaited government proposals to reform audit and corporate governance, auditors are adopting new technologies to help detect and prevent fraud.
How can accountants help businesses transition to employee ownership?
- 16 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Employee ownership can offer succession-planning benefits. We hear from an architecture business that has recently transitioned to an EO model and the accountant who helped it through the process.
Why red flags that suggest material fraud are so hard to spot
- 13 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Fraud can be somewhat of a grey area, but there are situations that auditors should scrutinise in particular.
The role of the internal auditor in addressing fraud risk
- 11 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Fraud losses are costing the UK economy tens of billions every year. Where do internal auditors sit within organisations’ efforts to provide contingencies?
How to solve the productivity conundrum
- 09 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
While weak productivity is a contemporary international phenomenon, the British case is particularly acute. We ask what UK business can do to help reverse the trend.
Economists forecast major setbacks in bleak 2023 outlook
- 06 Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Real wages dropping to 2006 levels, house prices declining by 8%, a fall in happiness, a spike in divorces – just a few predictions from PwC.
ChatGPT: opportunity and risk for the profession
- 16 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
OpenAI’s ChatGPT can answer questions to an impressive level of detail, but it needs work to address some significant issues before it could prove useful in audit and accountancy.
ICAEW pays tribute to Lord Young
- 15 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
The architect of the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) and Start Up Loans Scheme, which have been instrumental in providing funding to thousands of fledgling businesses, has died aged 90.
Government late payment review announced
- 13 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Billions in outstanding invoices currently owed to small businesses present a barrier to productivity, the creation of high-skilled jobs and economic growth, Business Secretary warns.
October’s GDP rise a false dawn for UK economy
- 12 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Latest official estimate confirms that the UK GDP grew in October as the economy bounced back from September when an extra bank holiday for the Queen’s funeral suppressed growth.
Supporting young entrepreneurs through inflation unknowns
- 12 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Economic Summit: Entrepreneurs Forum is a membership organisation supporting businesses across the north-east of England. Its younger members are facing an economic environment they’ve never experienced before.
Business confidence: it’s not all doom and gloom
- 08 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
In the wake of the UK Regions Economic Summit, where ICAEW launched the findings of its Q4 Business Confidence Monitor, one of the event’s Regional Chairs Neil Coupe shares his upbeat take on the economic climate.
FTSE boards failing to promote women into executive roles
- 30 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Despite progress in hiring women as non-executive directors, boards continue to miss opportunities to create robust female talent pipelines to the top executive jobs.
Logistical challenges, but opportunities, for life sciences
- 29 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Economic Summit 2022: Biorbyt supplies the life science sector, a fairly strong and stable market, but one where seamless trade really matters.
Purpose statement disconnect prompts staff to quit
- 23 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Employees increasingly seek value and purpose at work – but despite the widespread presence of ‘purpose statements’, many staff are unaware of what those credos say
Competitiveness concerns flagged by Foreign Influence Registration Scheme
- 17 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
ICAEW calls for clear definition of the scope and objectives of the FIRS to make the rules practicable, applicable and relevant, without unnecessarily reducing the UK’s international competitiveness.
How small actions can lead to big results
- 15 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
The principles of ‘everyday actions’ can transform business performance and help teams through financial challenges. Mitali Kelly ACA explains how.
Business confidence weakest since pandemic, finds ICAEW
- 14 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
UK business confidence plunges deep into negative territory as companies forecast a tough 12 months amid difficult economic conditions.
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