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Scaling up: how to build flexibility into your strategy
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  • 14 Jul 2025
How to grow: scaling a business isn’t just about growth, it’s about growth with resilience – especially during these times of greater uncertainty.
Winners of the 2025 Finance for the Future Awards
Finance for the Future Awards spotlights green finance trailblazers
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  • 04 Jun 2025
Finance professionals and teams at the forefront of embedding sustainability into business strategy were honoured at the 2025 Finance for the Future Awards.
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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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How much is your non-financial capital worth?
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  • 25 Apr 2025
Measuring and reporting natural capital may seem an insurmountable task, but many critical frameworks and processes are available to help finance professionals structure their approach.
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Finance business partnering: five skills you need
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  • 27 Feb 2025
Learn from two ICAEW experts how to master the skill of finance business partnering, which is rooted in relationships, influence, strategic thinking and commercial acumen.
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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 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.
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.
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Chart of the week: Spending Review 2020
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  • 27 Nov 2020
In the wake of the government’s Spending Review, this week’s chart focuses on the bigger picture and looks at the scale of public spending in relation to the size of the overall economy.
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.
Supercharge your networking – more than swapping business cards
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  • 30 Jan 2020
30 January 2020: we are often told about the importance of networking; it’s all about who you know, right? In the digital age with the ease of a LinkedIn request, how do you build those relationships? Rachel Underhill, ICAEW’s Business Strategy Manager, has some answers.
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.
Exclusive Resource Based View of the Firm
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  • 25 Jan 2016
Do your internal resources give you a competitive advantage? Undertaking a Resource Based View could help to understand your organisation's competences and resources. Here we outline what the approach entails.
Exclusive Strategy Maps
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  • 16 Dec 2015
Strategy Maps offer a useful way to analyse the strategic drivers of financial performance. Here we outline what they are and examples of how they work in practice.
PESTEL - what is it and how to apply it to your business strategy
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  • 11 Dec 2015
Ensure your strategy takes into account the political, economic, societal, technological, environmental and legal context.
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