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Read the latest articles on career development published in ICAEW's Insights hub.
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Community boosts joint effort on fraud prevention
  • 29 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Fraud Advisory Panel initiative facilitates cross-sector collaboration – helping organisations with risk mitigation and highlighting career opportunities in the counter fraud field.
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ICAEW-CA Sri Lanka programme deemed ‘transformative’
  • 24 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
First student to complete the ICAEW-CA Sri Lanka Joint Student and Membership Scheme says it showcased her capabilities and helped her secure a role at one of the Big Four.
World’s fastest accountant targets summer of success
  • 16 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Eugene Amo-Dadzie shares his career story at the New Members’ Ceremony, highlighting the diversity and dynamism of the profession.
How ESG is shaking up accountants’ careers
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Environmental, social and governance is opening up a host of new career opportunities for accountants. But how should you best develop the new skill-sets now being demanded of you?
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Student societies: building communities
  • 01 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
As Chair of London’s student society, Sunny Yang is helping to create a modern, inclusive community. He tells us about some of the latest initiatives.
Broader career paths attract accountancy talent
  • 01 Nov 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
With the lure of partner status waning, firms need to think more creatively about recognising individuals with other skills that they rely on for success – particularly if they want to retain them for the long run.
Honing essential skills to inspire and lead teams
  • 26 Oct 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
How do you ensure that people within your organisation have the chance to think about their own career development and role within the business, and how this could evolve?
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My ACA Journey: meet Ashwini Poopalasingham
  • 25 Oct 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
We meet Ashwini for coffee to discuss the challenges and rewards of the ACA qualification, strategies for maintaining a work-life balance, and future career goals.
Stop trying to fix women – start fixing the system
  • 17 Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Rather than seeing typically female traits as barriers to career progression, redesign the system, says diversity, equity and inclusion leader Joe Consedine – majority over-represented groups must make the shift, not the women themselves.
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10 things you didn’t know about ICAEW
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
When you qualify as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, you become part of a very special heritage. We explore what being a member of the Institute means.
Successful L&D strategies consider CPD and business goals
  • 12 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
A learning and development strategy built around continuing professional development and an understanding of the organisation’s long-term objectives is the cornerstone of a successful business. We offer tips on the best way to approach it.
Get a head start on your ethics CPD
  • 03 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW has launched a new elearning course to give your ethical decision making a boost while helping you fulfil the ethics requirement that forms part of the upcoming changes to continuing professional development (CPD) requirements.
ICAEW reveals details of new CPD requirements
  • 15 May 2023
Members and firms can begin preparing for changes to their professional development obligations, after ICAEW published detailed guidance on the revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations which come into effect in November.
The power of LinkedIn to progress your career
  • 20 Apr 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Want to stand out from the crowd? Personal branding expert Damilola Badmus offers tips on using LinkedIn to develop your personal brand.
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What’s it like to… change career to accountancy
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Accountancy and psychology may feel like opposite ends of the career spectrum, but Abigail Hitchins has found some common ground – and plenty of transferable skills.
Getting your 2023 career resolutions back on track
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
With one in five people pledging to pursue career goals and ambitions in their New Year Resolutions, we’ve asked career experts for their advice on achieving these in 2023.
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View from the top: Michael Roberts
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Michael Roberts is CEO of 2020 Innovation, a training and support provider for accountancy firms. He tells us how he reached his career goal – owning and running his own business.
What’s your office personality?
  • 12 Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Always fall into the same career ruts? Kickstart your accountancy career with New Year’s resolutions from careers coaches at Henley Business School.
Cost-of-living crisis prompts accountants’ job concerns
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
One in five chartered accountants says cost-of-living crisis is hindering career progression, with concerns about job losses also rife, research finds.
Spotlight on: Robin Vela
  • 03 Oct 2022
Robin holds various interests in the industrials, property, renewable energy and logistics sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the Founder and Chair of Lonsa Group Limited, Chair of Lonsa Everite, Deputy Chair of Swartland Investments and Chair of Firstmile Properties. Robin (a fellow of the Chartered Securities Institute in England & Wales) is a professionally qualified and experienced investment banker and in 2016 was appointed to the ICAEW Member’s Advisory Board for Africa. Robin is also a member of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa, the past patron for the African Institu...
Spotlight on: Ololade Adesanya
  • 03 Oct 2022
Ololade Adesanya is a Director at Deloitte with over 14 years’ experience working with firms in the financial services industry, providing advisory and assurance services around governance, risk and controls. She is also the current President of the ICAEW West of England.
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View from the top: Emily Smith
  • 28 Sep 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
At just 33, Emily Smith is managing director and finance director of two successful manufacturing firms, as well as Chair of the ICAEW Manufacturing Community. She tells us about her career journey so far.
Spotlight on: Joshua Enefiok
  • 22 Sep 2022
Joshua joined the Finance Graduate Scheme at a FTSE 100 company in 2015. He was Chair of the Bristol and District Chartered Accountant’s Student Society between 2018 and 2019 and continues to volunteer at the ICAEW as a member of the West of England Committee.
Spotlight on: Kristian Valentine
  • 22 Sep 2022
Kristian has six years’ combined experience at EY and MFW. He will soon be joining IPG Mediabrands as a Senior Finance Analyst.
Spotlight on: Nelson Amunikoro
  • 22 Sep 2022
Nelson has over seven years’ experience within the profession primarily working in audit both internally and externally. He’s worked for the Big Four accountancy firms and banking organisations.
Spotlight on: Leah Gooden-Walton
  • 22 Sep 2022
Leah joined UHY Hacker Young in August 2017, and is working towards an ACA qualification at ICAEW. She has found that being a student at ICAEW is already benefiting her at work.
Spotlight on: Angela Appiah Shippey
  • 22 Sep 2022
Angela qualified with Arthur Andersen in 1998 and then spent 20 years working in industry across various sectors including advertising and PR, legal services, banking, healthcare and recruitment. In 2018 she moved back into practice.
Spotlight on: Kudzanai Mumbure
  • 22 Sep 2022
Kudzanai is an internal auditor in the financial services industry with a special focus on insurance and banking companies.
ICAEW announces new CPD policy from November 2023
  • 22 Jul 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
From November next year, ICAEW will be introducing a new policy that will give members greater clarity when it comes to Continuing Professional Development.
Part 2: Learn the right soft skills for career success
  • 13 Jun 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
In this two-part series, ICAEW speaks to members of the Institute’s Cyprus Younger Members Committee to discover why soft skills are so important, helping them achieve career goals and a good work-life balance.
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