Professionals Against Corruption is running a new series of training courses free to members of professional bodies in the accounting, legal and real estate sectors.
Professional development is an essential element of your ACA training. Nicola Mower, Senior Training and CPD Manager at ICAEW, explains how to approach it.
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.
Having shaken off that dusty, backroom image to become front-of-house business advisers, today’s accountants also require softer skills, underpinning how integral they have become to the wider success of any company.
Many students choose to sit Financial Accounting and Reporting as one of the earlier Professional Level exams. Logically it’s not difficult to see why, with the module aim being “To enable you to prepare complete single entity and consolidated financial statements, and extracts from those financial statements, covering a wide range of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS® Standards)”. Here the examiners share an overview and advice.
To mark National Apprenticeship Week, ICAEW explores how the financial benefits of apprenticeships have been a big driver in their adoption, but talent-hungry businesses can use them as an effective way to address skills shortages.
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.
Deborah Harris is the first Black woman to be elected President of the London Society of Chartered Accountants in its 150-year history. She tells us about her priorities for the coming year.
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.
Alex Collins, Senior Business Development Manager at ICAEW, explains what sets the Level 7 Accountancy Professional apprenticeship apart for students, and shares his top tips for success.
Almost a year into her training journey, ACA student and audit trainee Ashwini Poopalasingham tells us how she’s finding the step up to Professional Level.
The uncertainty of the past two years has shown the importance of soft skills. ICAEW speaks to members in Cyprus to find out which skills have been instrumental to their careers as both employees and managers.
Michael Izza has been Chief Executive of ICAEW since 2006. Here he tells us about his inspirational career so far, and his vision for the future of the profession.
The ACA is not all about exams: get to know your online training file and make a habit of updating it regularly, says Senior Training and CPD Manager Nicola Mower.
“I like to think I’m a Jack the lad, but I’m an anorak really,” says Barry Hearn, President of global sports promotion business Matchroom, adding that his ACA training provided the springboard to his success.
Training forms a central part of a company’s diversity and inclusion strategy but, without careful planning, any positive outcomes may be limited. What should organisations consider when selecting a provider?
Six-monthly reviews are a key part of your ACA training, so it’s important to get the most out of them. We asked Senior Training and CPD Manager Nicola Mower for her top tips.
A few weeks into her new job as an audit trainee, ACA student Ashwini Poopalasingham tells us about her decision to go into accountancy, and her story so far.
Python is the computer language of choice for accountants. Kirstin Gillon explores its data-handling and statistical capabilities, and Rick Payne describes learning to code
Apprenticeships offer people of all ages the chance to upskill and give companies the chance to train stars of the future. Paul Golden explains how they work and talks to people on both sides – at Azets, Grant Thornton and Mercedes-Benz
26 January 2021: Stephen Huyton started his career in audit before moving into business. He believes the profession should be more vocal in its role as defender of business morals.
Some exciting developments are coming in 2021. Shaun Robertson, Director, Education and Qualifications, and Adam Birt, Head of Qualifications, Strategy and Development, talk us through them
27 August: Virtual reality has been around since the 1990s, though only in recent years has it gained real traction in both professional and consumer environments. One of the areas in which it has great potential is training and CPD. IT writer Sandra Vogel reports.
27 August: Kaplan’s head of learning Stuart Pedley-Smith is an accountant and trainer. Here, he shares his views about how professional bodies and training providers could make lifelong learning work.
26 August: COVID-19 is having a profound effect on the way training and CPD is delivered to accountants. Rachel Willcox speaks to trainers from the accountancy world about the new landscape
10 August: Laura de Poitiers, financial controller of AIM-listed plc Escape Hunt, tells ICAEW Insights how the business coped through COVID, about her work in the charity sector and the benefits of ACA training.
21 July: Boardrooms make some of the most influential decisions in the country – but do they reflect society and understand intergenerational challenges, which have been exacerbated by COVID-19? ICAEW’s Board Effectiveness Manager, Julia Root-Gutteridge, explores solutions.
Can you truly measure the value of HR and Training programmes? Andrew Mayo describes the challenges of assessing the return on investment in people-related programmes and considers how this intangible can be measured.
A practical framework of appropriate workforce measures is becoming something of a Holy Grail. Companies believe transparent, predictive and widely understood workforce measures will improve both their present performance and investors' view of their future worth.
