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How to integrate sustainability into strategic management
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  • 01 May 2025
By incorporating natural, social and human capital into strategic management, financial professionals can focus on the ‘triple bottom-line’ in which profit, people and planet share equal billing.
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Why nature matters to accountants: insights from a CFO
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  • 03 Mar 2025
Coinciding with World Wildlife Day 2025 on 3 March, the Global Accounting Alliance has published a new guide to help accountants integrate nature-related issues into their work. ICAEW speaks to one of the CFOs who contributed.
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Does your board need a sustainability committee?
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  • 10 Jan 2025
Organisations wanting to ensure they’ve got sustainability governance at the top might be considering the creation of a sustainability committee. ICAEW examines research into whether such committees are a useful addition to the board.
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Company culture: setting the right tone
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  • 13 Mar 2023
Meet four experienced board members who all understand the power of a strong culture for any organisation to achieve its long-term goals.
Business planning in a time of uncertainty
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  • 24 Feb 2023
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
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  • 23 Feb 2023
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.
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Starting a £100m business from scratch: Guy Singh-Watson, Riverford
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  • 05 Dec 2022
The second of four films showcasing board members’ stories and how they ensure a long-term focus for their companies.
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Stewarding a firm through the biggest decisions: Graeme Pitkethly, Unilever
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  • 01 Dec 2022
The third of four films showcasing board members’ stories and how they ensure a long-term focus for their companies
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A scenario planning guide for boards
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  • 07 Oct 2022
To conduct rich and engaging strategic conversations with the executive team in a world of deep uncertainties and surprises, boards are helped by using scenario planning.
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How scenarios help navigate an uncertain world
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  • 07 Oct 2022
Running the Shell Scenarios team from 2006 to 2022, Jeremy Bentham played a key role in identifying the risks and opportunities facing the energy giant.
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Navigating change to stay ahead
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  • 07 Oct 2022
While all businesses may follow a set long-term strategy, they must be ready to navigate major change when the need arises, and then prepare again for further change in the future.
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In it for the long haul
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  • 07 Oct 2022
Businesses of any size require a set of long-term goals and a detailed plan for how to achieve them. Three very different companies share how they go about this.
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Making great investment decisions: Karen Hester, Adnams
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  • 06 Oct 2022
The first of four films showcasing board members’ stories and how they ensure a long-term focus for their companies.
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Climate risk is an “inescapable” part of chartered accountants’ remit
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  • 01 Nov 2021
For those looking to future-proof their career, being able to embed climate change and wider sustainability issues into business strategy and planning, risk management, procurement and performance management is essential.
Exclusive What happens if we don't make net zero?
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  • 11 Aug 2021
Looking at the potentially huge consequences for business
Exclusive The CFO and strategy
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  • 11 Aug 2021
Rick Payne explores the CFO’s many roles in strategy, how to overcome barriers and define your approach.
Exclusive Turn your data into insights
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  • 17 May 2021
Six key tips to make the most of your data
Exclusive Making a sustainable business strategy for all
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  • 17 May 2021
Ensure your green agenda suits everyone
Exclusive What is open book management?
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  • 17 May 2021
We look at the management style that gives everyone in the business a say
NAO adds to calls for a long-term strategy for adult social care
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  • 12 Apr 2021
A National Audit Office report lays out the challenge for local authorities and central government on adult social care in the absence of a long-term funded plan.
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on business strategy for company boards
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  • 23 Feb 2021
How do you assess the full impact of COVID on your business? ICAEW’s six questions for company boards suggest what you should consider. Make sure you’re prepared for 2020 and 2021 year-end reporting.
2020/21 Reporting Season: find the help you need
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  • 15 Dec 2020
December 2020: Help from ICAEW to assess the impact of COVID-19 and Brexit on businesses and the implications for 2020/21 financial reporting.
Exclusive How to nurture strategic thinking
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  • 11 Nov 2020
Siobhan Soraghan of Active Insight Consulting Limited explains the three main strategy questions that can be applied to individuals and organisations to enhance their strategic decision-making capabilities
Exclusive Casting a successful strategy
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  • 15 Apr 2020
Radius Payment Group discuss their strategy.
Exclusive Industry in focus: Gambling
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  • 16 Mar 2020
A look at one of the most controversial industries, gambling.
Start-up survival and the role of chartered accountants
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  • 27 Jan 2020
27 January 2020: Iain Wright, ICAEW’s Director for Business and Industrial Strategy, explains how accountants are essential to entrepreneurialism, business survival and growth.
Exclusive Key concerns for CFOs
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  • 06 Aug 2019
Following the recent roundtable on strategy execution, Rick Payne takes a look at the key concerns for CFOs.
How to manage rapid growth
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  • 02 Aug 2019
Four ways to ensure you stay in control of rapid business growth without having to sacrifice a positive growth mindset.
Exclusive Choosing the right KPIs
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  • 17 May 2018
Finance professionals talk to Lauren Razavi about harnessing their company’s hidden depths for success.
How to survive a hostile takeover
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  • 06 Feb 2017
Christian Doherty details some of the ways to ensure survival during every finance director’s nightmare: a hostile takeover.
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