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.
The National Audit Office publishes a wide range of reports. Here is a selection that are especially topical and of interest to ICAEW members and the wider profession.
There is a common misconception that in moving to cloud-based systems, your technology environment is less secure. ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, explores why this isn’t necessarily the case.
Finance teams must embrace finance transformation or face becoming obsolete, warns former Microsoft Finance Director Oliver Deacon. He shares his vision of the technologies that will shape the jobs of tomorrow.
As pupils return to school, school governing boards are taking stock of the challenges they have faced in the wake of the pandemic and begin to look ahead to the new academic year. How can finance professionals get involved in helping schools navigate these choppy strategic seas – and what are the benefits of volunteering in education?
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The importance of data analytics and data science is largely accepted, but the use cases are not always so easy to define.
How likely are you to be replaced by a robot? Listen to the webinar and find out how advancing technology and AI are impacting the accounting profession, and how humans and machines can co-exist.
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.
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A snapshot of the steps being taken by audit firms to better facilitate fraud deterrence and detection.
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.
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.
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An in-depth overview of transaction multiples paid for UK private companies for the year ended December 2021.
An in-depth overview of transaction multiples paid for UK private companies for the year ended December 2020.
Large corporations like IBM and Oracle are using Excel dashboards and reports as a Business Intelligence tool, and many other smaller businesses are looking to these tools in order to cut costs for budgetary reasons.
This book delivers a powerful analysis of the new technological forces buffeting the accounting profession. Using case studies and practical examples, the author demonstrates how big data, blockchain, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence can help accountants adapt to new realities.
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 hopes to provide the reader with an inventory of basic algorithms which can be easily expanded and customized to fit an auditor's specific challenges. Accessible and comprehensive tools for these additional approaches are covered in this book, as are research approaches to take advantage of the additional explanatory power that these approaches offer to auditing. Coverage of software, methodologies, and fit statistics provide a concise reference for the conduct of audits, helping assure that audit opinions and decisions are defensible, fair, and accurate.
This book takes a thoughtful look at how the digital finance industry is evolving. It explains how to integrate digital finance concepts into existing traditional finance platforms and explores what successful companies are doing to maximize their opportunities in this context.
Understand, explore, and effectively present data using the powerful data visualization techniques of Python programming.
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The article discusses the technical and digital skills that finance professionals should learn and gain expertise to gain considerable advantage in their profession, including process modeling, data governance, and software use and development.
Article looks at how bookkeeping is moving from the back office to the frontline a s a consequence of Covid-19 and technological advances. Roles have experienced considerable change, moving from historical-facing compliance to forward-looking support.
The article discusses that Marks & Spencer (M&S) has been building up a data science and management capability that includes master's degree apprenticeships, as well as making data literacy more of a common currency at the retailer. It mentions the data science and artificial intelligence (AI) apprenticeship from the M&S business.
Article looks at how data analytics and forecasting tools are critical for the accountancy firms of tomorrow.
Article discusses the need for new workplace skills in the wake of the pandemic and the move to hybrid working . Employees are energized by it being made clear that reskilling was an investment in talent and directly supported growth plans.
Article looks at the disconnect between employers wanting people back in the office and their employees not wanting to return.
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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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