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Inflo are launching a new capability in their product suite – Inflo Workpapers – to create the complete Digital Accounting platform. Created by accountants for accountants, Inflo’s expanded offering will unlock the true potential of technology within audit and accounting services. Fully leveraging the power of data analytics, automation and AI allows firms to perform services more effectively, to a higher standard of quality and delivering a more value to clients.
Writing for the Financial Services Faculty, journalist Pippa Stephens looks at how privacy changes could affect credit scores and lending decisions for consumers and business.
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in corporate decision-making, investment and M&A. Last year, the faculty’s Shaun Beaney and Rosanna Woods of Drooms co-authored the AI in Corporate Advisory research report. This was followed in May by an evidence meeting held by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG-AI), hosted remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic
27 August 2020: ICAEW have teamed up with leading finance educational course provider Kaplan to launch a Data Analytics Certificate. The certificate will be launched in November 2020.
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.
Technology is transforming audit.
Power BI Desktop is a free application that can turn financial data into animated and interactive visualisations.
David Lyford-Smith returns to Excel’s powerful automation and data cleaning tool, Power Query.
Gain an insight into this emerging risk and opportunity for financial services firms and understand practical principles for exploring the possibilities in an ethical way
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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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.
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.
This fifth edition of this title covers all areas in the various valuation approaches, methods, and techniques in an easy-to-read style.
This book provides visualization methods that will help you navigate today's cluttered landscape of financial markets. It starts with a review of current, commonly used methods for communicating financial data and then offers methods to refine or enhance them, or create new types of visualisations that are easy to use, elegant, and that facilitate better decision-making. Many break with today's common practices for communicating data, but improve efficiency and clarity.
Offers an in-depth insight into how specific companies use big data.
Provides an essential guide to how visualization works. It will help you turn plain, uninspiring charts that merely present information into smart, effective visualizations that powerfully convey ideas.
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Article gives an overview of the ten years of Open Data in Government and how this is at the forefront of civil service transformation. It also mentions that significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites using public data.
Article discusses the rapid evolution of technology and its impact on the job of chief financial officers, impact of the advanced enterprise resource planning systems on the function of finance according to Davies, and the role of the CFO in the management of a company's technology investment.
This paper investigates evidence that suggests that practicing accountants may be resistant to data analytics practices, despite warnings that the profession needs to embrace and adapt to big data and data analytics, and seeks to understand factors that may influence this resistance to adopting new data analytics technologies.
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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
EY highlight six considerations for enterprises impacted by Brexit border changes, including: moving goods in and out of the UK, sourcing locations, operating model suitability, impact on working capital, validity of existing contracts and immediate customs/border issues.
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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