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Are apprentices the answer to the talent question?
- 02 Feb 2024
- ICAEW Insights
Apprenticeships offer employers a cost-effective way to upskill employees, improve staff retention rates and boost diversity. As National Apprenticeship Week begins, find out more about ICAEW’s apprenticeships, what’s involved and the funding options available.
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.
Is private equity reshaping the profession?
- 27 Sep 2023
- ICAEW Insights
The partnership model has long been the standard for accountancy firms, but with far-reaching challenges such as AI and staff retention looming over the profession, could PE investment be an alternative solution?
Neurodiversity: the power of thinking differently
- 22 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Up to 20% of the UK population is neurodivergent and yet as we reflect on Neurodiversity Celebration Week, embracing the strengths that diversity of thought can offer business remains a work in progress, says Dan Harris.
Social mobility needed to combat skills shortage
- 24 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
As a firm with several locations across the UK, Menzies is acutely aware of the increasing challenges of attracting talent in a competitive market.
Creating an effective talent development pipeline
- 24 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Post-pandemic, the world of work is changing fast. Businesses must do more to ensure employees have a clear development path if they are to keep and attract more talent.
Why people leave the audit profession (and how to keep them)
- 23 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Changeable management approaches, lack of formal training and excessive hours all forced Jackie Crane to become an ex-auditor. What do her experiences tell us about how audit employers must retain talent?
The finance team toolkit part 4: the right people
- 17 Feb 2023
- ICAEW Insights
If the current war for talent shows us anything, it’s that systems and processes are nothing without talented people. Here finance transformation executive, Neil Cutting focuses on the ‘people pillar’ of organisational transformation.
To attract talent, let’s focus on why we matter
- 14 Dec 2022
- ICAEW Insights
ICAEW President Julia Penny’s year involved conversations about two major themes: how to attract new and diverse talent to the profession, and the role of the profession in encouraging sustainability and trust. One, she argues, could be a solution to the other.
Could offering the ACA benefit your business?
- 04 Nov 2022
- ICAEW Insights
In a recruitment and retention crisis, offering to train the next generation of accountants could be the ticket to developing homegrown financial talent.
Cost-effective solutions for attracting and retaining talent
- 26 Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Forget traditional pay rises, organisations have a range of far more thoughtful tools at their disposal to show that they are great to work for.
Recruiting and retaining talent in a volatile market
- 14 Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
If businesses want to bypass the inflation-busting salary hikes to attract top accountant talent, they need to offer more flexible working arrangements, warns the director of specialist recruiter.
How to be a more dyslexia-friendly employer
- 06 Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
From nurturing existing employees to attracting new talent, there’s a strong business imperative to making sure your business is dyslexia-friendly. As we celebrate Dyslexia Awareness Week (3-9 October), experts offer tips on what that means in practice.
New government’s challenges not to be underestimated, says ICAEW
- 06 Sep 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Protecting jobs, delivering a bold skills and productivity strategy and long-term plans for tax and public spending are highlighted as urgent priorities for Truss and her new Chancellor.
The challenge of attracting and retaining insolvency talent
- 23 Aug 2022
- ICAEW Insights
What can insolvency firms and stakeholder bodies do – or do better – to ensure more people get involved with this exciting, varied and rewarding profession?
Accountancy firm Cooper Parry joins four-day week trial
- 12 Aug 2022
- ICAEW Insights
April Bembridge, Partner and Chief People Officer at Cooper Parry, explains how the firm is changing its working practices in order to attract the best talent.
Common errors in the calculation of CJRS grants
- 09 Aug 2022
- ICAEW
HMRC offers answers to some frequently asked questions on what action, if any, employers should take if they have made a mistake when calculating Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme grants.
How to retain talent in audit
- 27 Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Auditors frequently struggle to hang on to their brightest talent. What should they do to boost retention rates? Firms and recruitment specialists provide some ideas.
Employers must be more creative to recruit and retain talent
- 01 Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Hybrid working is a clear favourite among employees, but organisations must devise strategies for inclusion and keep staff engaged and motivated on an on-going basis, PwC research finds.
The Queer Student Awards proudly celebrates a rainbow of stories
- 28 Jun 2022
- ICAEW Insights
For the second year in a row, ICAEW sponsored a prize at the Queer Student Awards, a colourful celebration of LGBTQ+ talent.
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Diverse boards lead to success
- 13 Dec 2021
- Yetunde Hofmann
- Business and Management
The representation of Black women in our boardrooms is insufficient. It is a highly visible problem, but it is not talked about – at least not enough. Yetunde Hofmann, board-level executive leadership coach and mentor, asks why and shows how to resolve the issues
Chart of the week: UK payrolled employees
- 02 Dec 2021
- ICAEW Insights
Our chart this week looks at how the number of employees on UK payrolls has been supported by the furlough scheme, with more people employed in October 2021 than before the pandemic.
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Salary survey 2021
- 16 Nov 2021
- Business and Management Faculty
- Business and Management
As the nation recovers from the financial impact of the pandemic, what shape does the accounting profession find itself in? A fairly healthy one, according to the latest salary surveys – with talented candidates having the whip hand when it comes to dictating terms, as Nina Bryant discovers
Chart: COVID support schemes are ending, but what continues?
- 29 Sep 2021
- ICAEW Insights
The furlough and self-employed support schemes come to an end today, as does the VAT reduction for hospitality and tourism to 5%, which is increased to 12.5% tomorrow. ICAEW has produced a timeline for the schemes that remain.
COVID support schemes coming to an end
- 23 Sep 2021
On 30 September a range of government support packages to help businesses and individuals through the coronavirus pandemic will come to an end or change, including the furlough scheme and reduced SDLT rates in England. ICAEW insights provides a reminder of the changes.
Furlough numbers drop to lowest level since start of pandemic
- 10 Sep 2021
Around 340,000 people have moved off furlough across the UK over the course of July, according to HM Treasury, as the UK economy continues to rebound and businesses reopen.
The end of the furlough: what it could mean for banks
- 10 Aug 2021
- ICAEW Insights
By November 1st the UK government’s furlough scheme will end, spelling fresh challenges and opportunities for the banking sector, writes Daniel Lanyon.
Updated templates to make CJRS claims easier
- 02 Jun 2021
HMRC has published new templates for making claims under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to simplify the process. It is now possible to submit claims using a template within the system for staff without national insurance numbers when grants cover fewer than 100 members of staff.
CJRS - is an employee receiving fixed or variable pay?
- 11 May 2021
Whether an employee has fixed or variable pay is a key concept for calculating amounts that can be claimed under the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme. The Tax Faculty explain that the classification of some employees is essentially the employer’s choice.
Future of work part 1: navigating the global talent pool
- 07 May 2021
- ICAEW Insights
With the pandemic driving an increasing number of employees to work across international borders, ICAEW Insights speaks to Michelle Berners-Price, Director in KPMG’s global mobility tax team, about the challenges of managing a global talent pool.
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