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Business news from Insights

Read the latest business articles published in ICAEW's Insights hub.
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ISSB proposal to reduce Scope 3 reporting requirements
  • Article
  • 22 May 2025
Proposed amendments to IFRS S2 by the International Sustainability Standards Board accept some of the practical challenges in measuring and reporting on greenhouse gas emissions. Reuben Wales explains what it means for banks and insurers.
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Debt finance education key to boosting SME uptake
  • Article
  • 20 May 2025
ICAEW’s response to the government’s call for evidence on small business access to finance also highlights concerns about cost, time and red tape as stalling uptake of debt finance.
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UK-EU Summit yields recognition of professional qualifications success
  • Article
  • 20 May 2025
ICAEW welcomes agreement on dedicated dialogues on the recognition of professional qualifications to create a forum to address mobility barriers faced by UK services providers in the EU.
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How to grow: mitigating rising employment costs
  • Article
  • 14 May 2025
Recent rises in employers’ National Insurance contributions and the national minimum wage have left businesses with very little room to pursue growth and innovation plans.
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Skills and standards at heart of updated ICAEW strategy
  • Article
  • 13 May 2025
ICAEW has committed to ensuring members have the support needed to adapt and thrive in an AI-enabled world as it looks to its 150th anniversary in 2030.
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Steel, farmers and cars to benefit from UK-US deal
  • Article
  • 09 May 2025
While the baseline 10% tariff stands, the new UK-US trade deal reduces tariffs on cars, removes them from steel, and offers a tariff-free quota for UK beef.
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New UK-India deal offers boost in uncertain times
  • Article
  • 07 May 2025
ICAEW has welcomed the announcement of a new free trade agreement between the UK and India, which will reduce tariffs and other measures impacting the trade of goods and services between the countries.
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How to integrate sustainability into strategic management
  • Article
  • 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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Podcasts and recordings

Resources from past events and webinars including slides, interviews with speakers and webcasts.
Power BI Tips & Tricks Live: your questions answered
  • Webinar
  • 16 May 2025
Attend this webinar to gain a better understanding of using Power BI and its applications in accounting.
Corporate failure and internal assurance: what does it mean and what lessons should we be learning?
  • Webinar
  • 24 Apr 2025
In this webinar recording we will delve into the causes and warning signs of corporate failure, the role of internal audit, monitoring and assurance over reputational risk, and the influence of corporate culture.
Payroll & Reward update 2025
  • Webinar
  • 07 Apr 2025
This webinar provides an update on all the recent and upcoming changes to payroll, rewards and employment taxes in 2025/26.
Exclusive Critical Skills Series: Modern PowerPoint must know speed up tricks
  • Webinar
  • 27 Mar 2025
Around 40% of time spent on PowerPoint is spent formatting, and as much as it can sometimes be essential, the time could be drastically cut if users knew some speed up tips. PowerPoint MVP David Benaim will showcase his favourite keyboard shortcuts, speed align tricks, and slide surgery techniques to edit multiple things quickly plus all the various ways that AI and modern tools can help to create stunning, engaging presentation slides.
What Britain needs to grow
  • Podcast
  • 25 Mar 2025
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss the necessary ingredients to support economic growth.
Is this the end of Pivot Tables?
  • Webinar
  • 21 Mar 2025
This webinar will explore the basics of Pivot Tables before diving into new and alternative functionality that can also be used to analyse and work with data in Excel.
Transformation series: Delivering a sustainability reporting transformation
  • Webinar
  • 19 Mar 2025
25 April
Scale up series: Building your network and communication skills
  • Webinar
  • 19 Mar 2025
1 April
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Special reports

An in-depth look at a major topic, written by specialists in each area.
Exclusive SR72 The aspiring CFO
  • Report
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • PDF (1,950kb)
A practical, realistic, hands-on and immense learning opportunity of all you need to know to become the CFO
Exclusive SR71 The Retail Revolution
  • Report
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • PDF (2,126kb)
Our focused report on retail will detail the vast changes that have been undertaken in this industry since the onset of Covid, and how you can adapt to get to the top
Exclusive SR70 Business resilience
  • Report
  • 15 Apr 2021
  • PDF (3,024kb)
Business resilience is a skill not easily learned or acquired, but so vital to the survival and overall success of your business. Use your guide to ensure you have all the right tools in your armoury to succeed in such uncertain times.
Exclusive Special Report 69: Effective collaboration
  • Report
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • PDF (2,073kb)
Collaboration has been a trendy buzz word in business lexicon for some time now, but, as the pandemic has done with many other ‘nice-to have’ skills, it has now become absolutely necessary to master. With your colleagues, business partners, suppliers and all other stakeholders more than likely working from home, and maybe even across different locations and time zones, effective collaboration is essential
Exclusive Special Report 68: Commercial Insight
  • Report
  • 11 Sep 2020
  • PDF (1,761kb)
This special report explores how to be more commercial to add value and generate profit for your firm.
Exclusive SR67 Problem solving
  • Report
  • 06 Apr 2020
  • PDF (1,647kb)
This month’s special report focuses on solving problems of all shapes and sizes in the workplace. Whatever your position in the hierarchy, there are practical hints and tips included to make your day-to-day work easier and more efficient.
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Thought leadership

Browse the archive of outputs from ICAEW’s Finance Direction programme, which aimed to help finance departments to become more effective.
Finance business partnering guide
  • Thought leadership report
  • 02 Sep 2014
Practical advice for those considering business partnering initiatives and those looking to improve their approach.
The finance function: A framework for analysis
  • Thought leadership report
  • 16 May 2017
How does your finance function compare and how do you deal with the inherent tensions we highlight?
Finance's role in the organisation
  • Thought leadership report
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • PDF (114kb)
Finance’s role in the organisation considers the challenges of designing successful organisations. The document consists of two articles previously published in Finance and Management, the ICAEW’s Finance and Management Faculty Magazine. It forms part of our exploration of the role of the finance function, the first theme for the faculty’s thought leadership programme. The other two themes are managing the future and non-financial measures.
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Know-how guides

Expert guides to various aspects of business and management.
Open innovation: a guide
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Aug 2021
  • PDF (363kb)
Doing ‘Open Innovation’ means, quite simply, being open to the idea of working in new ways, with new partners or new relationships within your existing supply chain, to create ideas and then bring them through to market.
Platform businesses: a guide
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Aug 2021
  • PDF (198kb)
In this guide we explore the nature of platform businesses, the importance of trust in their successes, and how trust is generated and maintained.
Exclusive Organisational culture: Leadership styles
  • Report
  • Jun 2021
  • PDF (502kb)
It is recognised that an effective culture can reduce risk and improve performance of an organisation, and that the success or failure of the culture is greatly influenced by its leaders. This guide, written by Jenny Jones, explores different leadership styles and the impact they can have on organisational culture.
Business Ecosystems - A Guide
  • Report
  • Jun 2021
  • PDF (302kb)
The term ecosystem is regularly bandied about in business conversations. But what does it mean and is it a useful metaphor for improving business performance?
Exclusive Risk management guide
  • Report
  • May 2021
  • PDF (303kb)
This report on risk management will provide some high-level guidance by answering the following questions. What is risk management? What should the objective of risk management be and how do we know when we achieve it? And finally, how can it be implemented?
Exclusive Off payroll working - A user guide
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Feb 2021
  • PDF (241kb)
This practical guide explains the off-payrolling rules as they apply to medium and large businesses.
A guide to operational resilience
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Feb 2021
  • PDF (131kb)
A guide on what organisations need to do to design and embed a framework to deliver operational resilience. The first of two papers on operational resilience for internal audit teams.
How to audit operational resilience
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Feb 2021
  • PDF (145kb)
In this second paper on operational resilience, we will look at how to develop the audit approach. We include recommendations of areas internal audit should focus on and other questions that should be considered.
Exclusive Why culture is important and the power of culture metrics
  • Helpsheets and support
  • Nov 2020
  • PDF (207kb)
This guide, written by Jenny Jones, explains the importance of organisational culture and why businesses must get it right. It considers the benefits of a new metrics-based approach to measuring culture, and how the data gathered can support the organisation as it evolves.

Other business and management publications

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Business and Management magazine
  • Hub page
The former monthly magazine of the Business and Management Faculty. It contained a wide range of news, views and articles for business finance professionals. The last edition was published in December 2021.
Finance and Management magazine
  • Hub page
Magazine of ICAEW's Finance & Management Faculty, published between 2000 and 2017.
Management Quarterly
  • Hub page
Management Quarterly was produced in association with Cranfield School of Management from 1998 to 2003.
Manager Update
  • Hub page
Manager Update was produced in association with Henley Management College from 1997 to 2008.

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