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Charity Governance Code revamp urges reflection on board behaviours
- Nov 2025
- ICAEW Insights
The biggest revision to the Code in eight years is launched during Trustees’ Week and sees a shift away from processes and recommended practice to getting charity boards to reflect on their effectiveness.
Four essential leadership skills in uncertain times
- Sep 2025
- ICAEW Insights
An uncertain environment is driving demand for a new breed of C-suite executives, but the skills they need are lacking. ICAEW’s forthcoming Annual Conference includes sessions to help you prepare for leadership success.
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DATA ANALYTICS COMMUNITY
Comparing the CDO and CFO in the modern enterprise
- Apr 2025
- Craig Stirk
In an era where data can rival capital as the most valuable corporate asset, two C-suite roles have emerged as strategic cornerstones of enterprise decision-making – the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the Chief Data Officer (CDO). As organisations grapple with digital transformation, regulatory pressures and the latest AI hype cycle, understanding the distinction and interplay between these roles is more critical than ever.
How to become a portfolio CFO
- Aug 2024
- ICAEW Insights
As businesses evolve, the traditional C-suite model faces challenges. Sara Daw, a pioneer of the flexible ‘C-suite as service’ model, explains how on-demand CFOs can benefit your business.
How to reap the benefits of a shadow board
- May 2024
- ICAEW Insights
A turbulent business environment is galvanising support for the concept of the shadow board. A new ICAEW guide explains how they work, how your organisation might benefit and the main considerations for setting one up.
Start with 'Why': Top Tips for Effective Board Reports
- Apr 2024
- Kristina Kopic
- Charity Community Newsletter
Effective board reports enable informed decision-making and strategic alignment. However, crafting a board report that supports your board’s decision-making requires more than just compiling data and financial results. It demands communicating the report’s purpose clearly, understanding the requirements of the trustees, and anchoring the reports in the charity’s strategic priorities.
CFO most diverse C-suite role amid patchy progress
- Mar 2024
- ICAEW Insights
White men still hold three-quarters of chair, CEO or CFO roles across FTSE 350 and more than half of board and executive committee positions, study finds.
The role of boards in reaching net zero
- Jan 2024
- ICAEW
The non-executive board and the task of the net-zero transition are perfect bedfellows, according to Chapter Zero’s Chief Executive.
CORPORATE FINANCE FACULTY
Jon Moulton: The new rules for board games
- Mar 2023
- Jon Moulton
There’s no simple formula for putting together the right board of directors. If only there was, says Jon Moulton.
Helping the board make better decisions
- Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Putting in place the infrastructure, processes and materials to ensure a high-performing board.
A scenario planning guide for boards
- Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
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 to excel as a board member – a guide for Non-Executive Directors (NEDs)
- Aug 2022
- David Levenson, Siobhán Cahalan
David Levenson and Siobhán Cahalan spoke on an ICAEW webinar exploring how to prepare for being on a board and what you will discover when you arrive in the boardroom. David and Siobhán follow up below with some more advice in response to questions that were raised on the webinar.
The Board Scorecard: shifting the climate conversation
- Apr 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Board chairs and non-executive directors wanted a simpler way to benchmark their progress towards net zero. The new Chapter Zero Board Scorecard is the result.
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS DEPARTMENT
The IRB: building a board for the future
- Feb 2022
- ICAEW
The ICAEW Regulatory Board (IRB) is at a critical point in its development. It recently announced the appointment of a new chair and is currently recruiting new members. We talk to serving board members and the chair of the independent Regulatory and Conduct Appointments Committee about what makes an effective board, why diversity – in all its forms – is so important, and what qualities prospective members could bring to the mix.
VOLUNTEERING COMMUNITY
7 top tips for effective board meetings
- Feb 2022
- Kristina Kopic
- Volunteering Community Newsletter
Read our seven top tips on how your charity board can get the most out of its meetings.
Does your board know how to make its net zero contribution?
- Jan 2021
- ICAEW Insights
Delivering the UK's net zero ambition should be a priority for every board member – executive and non-executive director alike. Chapter Zero and ICAEW have come together to explain what net zero really means for businesses and their boards.
Getting boards on board with carbon neutrality
- Jan 2021
- ICAEW
In the summer of 2020, ICAEW’s board approved a roadmap for the organisation to go carbon neutral and by autumn became the first major professional body to declare carbon neutrality. But what does it take to get a board on board with action on climate change?
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TECH FACULTY
Cyber security for boards
- Apr 2020
- Kirstin Gillon
Board support has long been recognised as vital to achieving good cyber security. But boards have often struggled to have good conversations with cyber security specialists and understand their risks around cyber.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
How can we create forward looking boards
- Oct 2019
- Dr Sabine Dembkowski
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Exploring psychological safety in the boardroom
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
How do you know if your audit committee is effective
- Jul 2019
- Tom Quincey, David Alexander
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Audit Committees are playing an increasingly critical corporate governance role in terms of their leadership on financial reporting, internal controls, risk management and the internal and external audit functions.
Forum launched to prepare directors for climate change risks
- Jun 2019
- ICAEW
To help NEDs understand the implications of climate change for the corporate sector, the Chapter Zero forum has been launched as part of the World Economic Forum’s global climate governance initiative
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Information overload – practical tips
- Apr 2019
- Philippa Kelly
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
In recent years the length of board packs has increased significantly, especially in financial services, often surpassing a thousand pages. This information overload can hamper board members’ ability to think clearly, and thus their ability to make challenges where appropriate.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Board evaluations – ticking a box or making a difference?
- Sep 2018
- Tracy Gordon
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
It is very clear that a new lens is being applied to board performance.
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Shadow directors must face up to risks
- Sep 2017
- David Parsley
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
The UK government has signalled its intention to crack down on the roles played by shadow or de facto directors in companies under investigation. David Parsley discusses the risks involved in those making board level decisions while not being a formal director of an organisation.
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