Get advanced data analysis, from number crunching and spreadsheets to decision-support and strategy, including access to useful and practical Excel guidance. Plus, find out how big data is used and can benefit the accountancy profession.
Our quarterly digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format.
Scams have increased during the pandemic, with tax-related scams doubling in the last year.
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This week we have a Creator post in which I’ll be sharing a few of my thoughts on how to structure your spreadsheet data in order to make data analysis and further work easier.
The growth of computer power, and rise of automation and artificial intelligence will increasingly affect analytical tasks. Accountants will need to find new ways to add value in response.
Some deeper questions about our use of big data and analytics and how it can influence society.
While there are lots of ways in which accountants are making use of new capabilities in data and analytics, we need to recognise a number of practical barriers and challenges.
This webinar is the first webinar in a 3 part ICAEW Property Advice webinar series. John Gaskell, ICAEW Head of Personal Financial Planning, interviews industry experts Kate Faulkner and Jatin Patel on the implications Covid19 may have for first-time buyers and those that are looking to step-up or step-down the property ladder.
In this March 2020 webinar bestselling author and strategic advisor, Bernard Marr, answers your questions on strategy, business performance and the intelligent use of data in business.
Demystifying data. Before organisations can gain any value from data it is critical to have a clear data strategy that ties into an organisation's overall strategy.
A presentation and demonstration of the ICAEW Data Analytics Certificate Analyst Pathway.
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A guide to the developments, opportunities and challenges that data analytics provides for auditors.
An overview of the relevant requirements, challenges and developments in risk assessment.
This thought leadership initiative outlines the opportunities and risks for accountants from new and advanced capabilities in data, and highlights practical examples of how the profession is changing as a result of big data and analytics.
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An in-depth overview of transaction multiples paid for UK private companies for the year ended December 2020.
This book delivers a powerful analysis of the new technological forces buffeting the accounting profession and identifies key pathways to responding to the challenges. [It] shows readers how established business fundamentals are being eclipsed and that accounting has not been spared. You'll learn: how the new realities of digitalization, including big data and AI, are affecting audit work and financial management practices; how learning fast about and from more diverse data sources is essential to the new accounting environment; why accounting information must start to speak to what will take place rather than about financial activities that have occurred; what finance must do in a world of changing risks, data growth, fast digitization, and increased regulation.
This book will help accountants and financial managers better understand big data and analytics, including its history and current trends. It dives into the platforms and operating tools that will help you measure program impacts and ROI, visualize data and business processes, and uncover the relationship between key performance indicators.
This book takes a thoughtful look at how the industry is evolving, and it explains how to integrate concepts of digital finance into existing traditional finance platforms. It explores what successful companies are doing to maximize their opportunities in this context and offers suggestions on how to introduce digital finance into a firm's structure. Specific strategies for a digital future are presented, alongside numerous case studies that explore key attributes of success.
Understand, explore, and effectively present data using the powerful data visualization techniques of Python programming.
This book walks the reader through the wrangling process by exploring several factors-time, granularity, scope, and structure-that you need to consider as you begin to work with data.
A must-have guide to creating a robust data strategy. Explaining how to identify your strategic data needs, what methods to use to collect the data and, most importantly, how to translate your data into organizational insights for improved business decision-making and performance, this is essential reading for anyone aiming to leverage the value of their business data and gain competitive advantage.
Chapter 10 of this title deals with: data ownership and privacy; data security; best practice in data governance.
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Article looks at how effective data mining derives from linking all the right data to create a complete and timely picture of the business issues you are trying to engage.
Article looks at how data analytics and forecasting tools are critical for the accountancy firms of tomorrow.
Article discuss the latest trends in text analytics in the accounting profession where firms are using text analytics software in accounting, auditing, tax, and business advisory for automation, compliance assurance, fraud detection, or planning purposes.
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Provided by Tibco this textbook offers support on the application of statistics and data mining. It covers a variety of applications, including: business statistics, credit scoring, forecasting and survey research, data mining and quality control.
Case studies of the use of analytics, searchable by industry, application, benefit or function
This discussion paper looks at the implications of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning for data protection, and explains the ICO’s views on these.
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