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The Tech Faculty is changing. 2021 was the last year that we we collected subs and provided an additional, paid-for service for members. From 2022, all tech content will become available to all ICAEW members.
Keep up-to-date with tech issues and developments, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, big data, and cyber security.
With hybrid working now a reality for millions of UK employees, how can you be sure that even if you’re far from sight, you’re not far from mind when it comes to career opportunities?
Kirstin Gillon explores how to balance productivity and privacy with employee monitoring in the new hybrid workplace.
The pandemic has ushered in a new model of working, with many businesses considering adopting more flexibility in the longer term. That’s certainly the case for the Oil and Gas Authority, which is set to adopt a hybrid working method for its post-pandemic way of working.
ICAEW Insights explores where the chartered accountant of the future might work, with recent trends including local co-working spaces and building communal office space into new housing developments.
COVID-19 has accelerated digital adoption across all business sectors. The finance function needs to embrace tech and develop new skills to keep up.
Embracing rather than avoiding digital technologies is the key to digital resilience in the face of uncertainty.
With the pace of change constantly accelerating, EY’s Joseph Eloi, Manager, Tax and Trade Strategy, explains the need for a roadmap from HMRC, so that businesses can start planning.
From booking an Uber or filtering spam emails, artificial intelligence underpins many routine tasks we take for granted. Now AI has audit in its sights. Jayson DeVries explains why the time is ripe.
Many private equity firms and VCs are awash with cash and looking for higher returns. Meanwhile, myriad companies are undergoing major digital transformation. David Prosser speaks to ICON’s Alan Bristow and Brian Parker about the ongoing investment boom for tech and the sector’s longer-term outlook.
This guide from the ICAEW sets out the key features of blockchain, and the challenges it must face to reach widespread adoption. It includes case studies of real-life applications, as well as examining its impact on accountancy.
Blockchain technologies have the potential to disrupt the work of finance teams – particularly those focused on transactional tasks – by offering a system of universal entry bookkeeping, removing the need for independent verification. Here ICAEW’s Tech Faculty and Deloitte outline the basics of this complex and developing technology.
In this ICAEW Insights podcast we’re joined by the Small Business Minister to discuss recovery, productivity and sustainability, examine the newly formed ISSB, and assess HMRC’s CGT nudge for cryptoasset owners.
HMRC has sent letters encouraging holders of cryptoassets, such as Bitcoin, to consider their capital gains tax position, but stops short of sending them to non-UK domiciled individuals.
Explaining why cyber risk is an area that all companies increasingly need to focus on.
With 15 countries, including seven in Europe, planning to go cashless in the next decade, are we ready to abandon cash? And what legal, regulatory and ethical hurdles do we need to overcome first?
Britain has long had a problem with fraud, but in the past few years the scale and complexity of fraudulent activities has increased to even more worrying levels.
Setting up MarktoMarket five years ago was a bold decision for its CEO Doug Lawson and his co-founder Martin Clarke. But Lawson tells Marc Mullen how filling that big data gap in the small-cap segment of the market is proving invaluable for advisers
Embracing rather than avoiding digital technologies is the key to digital resilience in the face of uncertainty.
While methodologies for audit remain the same, software has evolved fast. On the path towards a more technologically advanced process, audit needs to adapt to take a more detailed analytical approach.
The rate of technology adoption has accelerated during and post-pandemic as firms have engaged with new ways of working. How are these ever-changing tools reshaping audit?
It’s a hot topic in finance right now. Rob Binns, CFO at Access Group, discusses why accountants should embrace, not fear, the acceleration of digital transformation.
Finance transformation will be one of the most in-demand skills over the next 10 years, says career coach for financial professionals, Oliver Deacon.
The pandemic has ushered in a new model of working, with many businesses considering adopting more flexibility in the longer term. That’s certainly the case for the Oil and Gas Authority, which is set to adopt a hybrid working method for its post-pandemic way of working.
Here are all the new Excel articles and webinars from the Excel Community in July 2022.
In this Creator post we revisit the topic of how to make custom data validation rules with functions.
The conditional aggregate functions such as SUMIFS() have long been some of the most useful functions for working with financial data, but they have their shortcomings and there might now be a more flexible and capable alternative.
Consider a scenario where create a chart, say, a line chart, but you only want one element (one of the lines) to be modified using a slicer. To illustrate, let’s have some data:
ICAEW has brought together these resources to help you understand how digital technologies are transforming economies and workplaces. Learn what it means for businesses and accountancy practices.
ICAEW has brought together these resources to help you understand artificial intelligence and what it means for finance functions. Here you'll find support on identifying how AI can benefit your organisation and how it to start implementing the technology.
ICAEW has brought together these resources to help you understand Robotic Process Automation (RPA), what it means for your organisation and how it to start implementing the technology.
Digital technologies are set to have a revolutionary impact on the work of accountants, both in business and in practice. ICAEW has gathered together these resources to ensure its members understand how finance functions will change, the skills that will be needed and the role you will play.
The pandemic has shifted society, creating large opportunities for accountants. Reza Hooda FCA CTA discusses these opportunities.
The adoption of the cloud by banks is hard to regulate given the rapidly growing supply of services by third parties. But financial regulators are increasingly turning their sights on the megatrend.
HMRC’s Spending Review 2021 settlement will see its spending, excluding that ringfenced for COVID-19, increase to £5.2bn per year by 2024/25. ICAEW’s Tax Faculty explains how HMRC might prioritise the £0.9bn funding increase on its 2019/20 settlement.
Increased use of cloud-based digital solutions is proving hugely beneficial to firms in running their own businesses as well as their client’s.
Digitalisation is transforming how tax is reported and paid, with significant innovation and investment occurring in countries of all kinds. There is no single pathway to digitalisation, as our case studies show, but there is something to be learned from all of them.
Drawing on real-life experiences, this collaborative thought leadership report by ICAEW and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) considers how finance functions can harness automation to deliver greater value to business and the skills needed by accountants in the future.
As accountants increasingly innovate with data, AI and other technologies, is the profession’s ethics code fit for purpose in this new world?
Many businesses have had to adapt quickly in the last three months to deal with the impact of Covid-19 and lockdown, by making sure they are able to run their businesses remotely and mainly digitally by using and implementing the right kind of software.
Based on the materials created by ICAEW’s Tech Faculty, these resources became available to the wider ICAEW membership in January 2022.
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The latest news on technology and data as published in ICAEW's Insights section.
An archive of recordings of Tech Faculty webinars.
Practical advice, guidance and case studies written for faculty members working in practice. Aimed at helping you benefit from the capabilities and navigate the risks arising from new technology
Providing updates on the latest technology issues affecting the accountancy profession. They aim to bring practical tips and expert insights on a range of topics, setting you up for any action you'll need to take.
Technology is at the heart of all organisations today. The pace of change is growing ever faster. In the coming years, the finance profession will be profoundly altered by new and evolving technologies.
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