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Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Wates Corporate Governance Principles for large private companies – seven years on
  • May 2026
  • ICAEW
The Wates Principles were developed to give large private companies in the UK a framework for raising standards and demonstrating good governance, at a time when new legislation required them to report on their corporate governance arrangements. Since their introduction in 2018, there are now over 500 of the UK largest privately-owned businesses – with a combined annual turnover of more than £850 billion – that voluntarily apply the Wates Principles.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Companies House reform and developments in Economic Crime regulations and associated good practice
  • Apr 2026
  • ICAEW
Experts outlined the latest developments in UK economic crime related regulations, sanctions and Companies House reforms. This session included Laura Hough and Mike Miller from ICAEW's Ethics Team and Sam Tate, Global Head of Regulatory & Investigations at Clyde & CO LLP.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The role of boards in managing risk
  • Apr 2026
  • ICAEW
This session sought to help boards, directors and their advisers to improve their approach to managing risk. The session drew on the Risk Coalition’s latest publication ‘Raising your Game’, which provides cross-sector guidance for boards and their committees with risk oversight responsibility.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The role of the Board in shaping culture and how to measure success
  • Apr 2026
  • ICAEW
Peter Drucker said that ‘Culture eats Strategy for Breakfast’. The board is responsible for setting both and there is compelling evidence that poor corporate culture plays a significant role in unexpected corporate collapses.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE The role of the Audit Committee and how to be a successful Audit Committee Chair
  • Apr 2026
  • ICAEW
This panel was hosted with the Audit Committee Chairs Independent Forum (ACCIF). ACCIF released a report in 2018 on “How to become an Audit Committee Chair and then succeed” based on over 140 interviews with Audit Committee Chairs, CFOs, Audit Partners and Board Chairs.
CHARITY COMMUNITY Balancing finance, culture and impact: the leadership challenge for charities
  • Dec 2025
  • Sharon Bell
  • Charity Community Newsletter
Leading a charity today means juggling competing priorities: financial sustainability, organisational culture and delivering meaningful impact. For small charities in particular, this balancing act can feel relentless. How do leaders keep the mission alive while ensuring the numbers add up? This article explores practical ways to navigate these tensions and build strong foundations for the future.
New ICAEW guideline puts HR due diligence under the spotlight
  • Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
A new guideline from ICAEW’s Corporate Finance Faculty focuses on the cultural and people-related risks and opportunities that need to be considered in a transaction.
Corporate culture and how to measure it
  • Nov 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Your organisation’s culture is the corporate governance risk that might not be on your radar. So how can you measure it – and what should you do when you realise there’s a problem?
Ethics: four questions to assess company culture
  • Oct 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
When stepping onto a board or taking up a leadership role, how do you assess the ethics of the organisation? Here are the key questions you need to ask.
Building ethical culture in small business and practice
  • Sep 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Stakeholders are now asking even the smallest entities which practical steps they are taking to embed ethics into their organisational cultures, says Vicky Andrew FCA.
The mutual benefits of mentoring
  • Jul 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Mentoring offers finance professionals at all career stages a strategic advantage that accelerates development, builds networks and reinforces the core values of integrity, collaboration and lifelong learning.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Breakout 2: The role of the Board in shaping culture and how to measure success
  • May 2025
  • ICAEW
Insights from our session on board culture at the ICAEW Corporate Governance Conference 2025, which was chaired by Aleen Gulvanessian, Corporate Lawyer and Chair of Macfarlane Group PLC. Panellists were Laura Whyte, Non-executive director, Macfarlane Group, Tanya Gass, Partner at Norman Broadbent, Rafal Budzinski, independent consultant and former Senior Policy Associate, Corporate Governance and Stewardship at the FRC and Annabel Gillard, co-founder at LSE FORGOOD and advisory council member at the Institute of Business Ethics.
Exclusive CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Corporate Governance Reform are we there yet? The Audit Committee and Auditor view
  • May 2025
  • ICAEW
In this session at the ICAEW Corporate Governance Conference 2025, the panel explored whether recent regulatory and legislative developments have put us in a better position on external audit and corporate governance than we were Pre-Carillion - ie, will we be better able to prevent sudden disorderly corporate collapses?
The importance of people and culture when scaling up
  • Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Understanding how to create and nurture the right company culture is a key element in ensuring the success of a growing business.
How a CEO’s pay package influences corporate culture
  • Apr 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
The composition of a CEO’s pay deal can have a direct effect on how a company behaves. Aligning remuneration with corporate operations is key.
DE&I critical to innovation, productivity and growth, finds EY
  • Feb 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
New research produced in partnership with 11 leading diversity campaigns highlights the diversity, equity and inclusion strategies that can help to foster an inclusive culture and improve workplace equity.
IESBA launches project on firm culture and governance
  • Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Following a fact-finding report on accountancy firm culture and governance, the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants has begun a standard-setting project to create a principles-based framework.
Exploring Clive Owen LLP’s approach to responsible business practices
  • Nov 2024
  • ICAEW
Clive Owen LLP, a leading accountancy firm based in the North of England, has been actively integrating sustainability into its practices across its five regional offices. The firm is committed to reducing its environmental impact while fostering a responsible business culture that benefits its team, clients, and local communities.
PRACTICE DEPARTMENT Why Leaders Use Business Coaches
  • Sep 2024
  • Richard Gourlay
Having a business coach a few years ago was unusual, the sign that someone was struggling, but today around 20% of small business entrepreneurs use coaches as part of their business team.
Why mentoring matters
  • Aug 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
The core value of any firm is the quality of its professionals. Fostering a mentoring culture ensures the soft skills needed for the job are passed to the next generation of new management, says Andy Lopata.
Insight: mentoring corporate financiers
  • Jul 2024
  • Andy Lopata
  • Corporate Financier
The core value of an advisory firm is the quality of its professionals. Fostering a mentoring culture ensures soft skills needed for the job are passed to the next generation of new management, says Andy Lopata.
MALAYSIA Quarterly updates from your Malaysia council member
  • Jun 2024
International council members can communicate with members in their region through quarterly newsletters. Below you will find all the messages sent out during their current council terms.
How the Board can make the most of culture surveys
  • Sep 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Board members play a crucial role in setting and maintaining the right culture, and surveys are an important part of that effort. We explore what boards should expect from management when deploying and using culture surveys, and how to use the data.
Culture Holds the Key: The Role of the Boardroom
  • Apr 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The right organisational culture is crucial to an organisation’s success and boards play a vital role in creating and sustaining it, as Dina Medland explores.
What major cyber threats mean for the average business
  • Apr 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
In any cyber attack, employees can be either gateways or a defensive wall – so it is vital for companies of all sizes to ingrain threat awareness into their organisational cultures.
Company culture: setting the right tone
  • Mar 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Meet four experienced board members who all understand the power of a strong culture for any organisation to achieve its long-term goals.
How auditors can effectively challenge management
  • Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Challenging management has been a focus for auditors in recent years. Personal curiosity, an understanding of human nature and a supportive firm culture are critical for making it work.
The critical role of boards in developing strong ethics and compliance
  • Nov 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Increasing regulation and public scrutiny of corporate behaviour means ethics and compliance is now a vital part of the boardroom agenda.
Corporate culture: why change must come from within
  • May 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Restoring trust in business hinges on good corporate culture, but it’s a false belief that cultures can fixed by expert and specialist team-led initiatives, says Andrew Cocks.
Why inclusive leadership is so vital to D&I
  • Feb 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Research shows that leaders have an exponential influence on an organisation’s ability to build inclusive cultures and work practices.
Social mobility: creating a more inclusive recruitment culture
  • Feb 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
With job vacancies at an all-time high, and many people having left the labour market during the pandemic, organisations are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of inclusion.
Welcome Inclusion: how you can be a force for change
  • Jan 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
A new ICAEW campaign gives members the tools they need to encourage and nurture a more inclusive culture in the workplace – regardless of their role.
We all have a role to play in creating an inclusive culture
  • Jan 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Chartered accountants from a wide range of backgrounds discuss how they can make a difference at work and throughout the profession.
In figures: diversity and inclusion in our profession
  • Jan 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
The benefits of forging an inclusive culture are clear, but we still have some way to go.
Exclusive A guide to company culture
  • Aug 2021
  • Xenia Taliotis
  • Business and Management
The culture where you work is key to all, master it now
Exclusive A culture assessment can only be useful
  • May 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
Corporate culture is often forgotten in the rush to determine internal rules. If we are to understand the big questions around trust in business, shouldn’t culture metrics be in place?
Exclusive Developing the right culture
  • Sep 2020
  • Arun Chauhan
  • Business and Management
Ensuring your business culture does not lead to loss
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY How whistleblowing helps companies
  • Jul 2019
  • Michael Izza
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Whistleblowing is central to a company’s system of checks and balances, It can help businesses to mitigate their risks, improve their culture, and ultimately increase their performance, argues ICAEW chief executive Michael Izza.
AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY The challenge of auditing culture
  • Jul 2016
  • Christos Skapoullis
Assessing the corporate culture of your own organisation is not easy, but done well it can be a valuable exercise. Christos Skapoullis, head of internal audit at the Bank of Piraeus, outlines the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY Case study: Creating a high-performance culture
  • Jan 2013
  • Bernard Marr
A high performance culture is one in which everyone strives to continuously improve business performance by using the best available performance data. Google is not only one of today’s most successful companies but a great example of a company with a high-performance culture.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY The seven hats of the FD
  • Dec 2011
  • Richard Young
  • Business and Management
Finance leaders talk to Richard Young about the different hats an FD must wear to stay ahead in the changing business environment.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY Changing the culture
  • Oct 2011
  • Andrew Mayo
  • Business and Management
Andrew Mayo offers advice on how to manage cultural change in a way that improves, rather than compromises, business strategy and employee behaviour.
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY Pay-for-performance pitfalls
  • Nov 2010
  • Wim Van der Stede
  • Business and Management
PFP is an incentive scheme in which employees receive extra, performance-dependent compensation for their work if they reach certain performance targets.
Exclusive BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT FACULTY Beating silos into shape
  • Jul 2010
  • Andrew Likierman
  • Business and Management
Silos - and how to eliminate them - present a perennial management problem. Below, Professor Sir Andrew Likierman explains how performance measurement can help get rid of these potential saboteurs.
How does the board shape corporate culture?
  • Jan 0001
  • ICAEW Insights
Boards craft their organisational cultures through a blend of incentivisation and hiring, but must always emphasise ethics and values alongside commercial outcomes.
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