Life sciences: incubating ideas, incubating businesses
If there is one sector that has captured the world’s imagination in 2021 it must be biotech. And it’s firmly on investors’ radars too.
Data analytics articles and features
Articles and features on data analytics.
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Data analysis: finance professionals must ask the right questions
Data offers huge business opportunities and boards, funders and creditors increasingly expect data analysis to underpin decisions, but financial controllers must grasp the challenges surrounding data integrity, trust in data and ethics to capitalise on its potential, an expert is warning.
Shaping the public’s trust in data and information
Ed Humpherson holds the UK government to account for the data that it publishes. He argues that chartered accountants have a key role to play.
Excel Community project – rescuing the lost archive – part 4
In October 2020, the web platform used for Tech News and the Excel Community was changed. Although there are many clear advantages of the new platform, one downside is the splitting of the content for both communities between current articles and the very extensive archive of articles built up over many years. The faculty team have sought to alleviate the problems by providing a tabular index to over 2,000 archive articles.
When data meets society: managing data ethically
Writing for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, ICAEW’s Head of Financial Services Philippa Kelly explores how the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement have brought issues with our relationships to financial services and data into sharp relief.
Exploring charts (graphs) in Excel - Part 6: enhancing bar charts – creating funnel and tornado charts
In Blog 5 we explored how to create Column and Bar charts, in this Blog we will continue using these to create Funnel and Tornado charts. From 2016 onwards there is a Funnel chart option within Excel, but this only displays one set of data with bars that are of equal length either side of the centre (equivalent to centring the bars on a chart rather than left justifying them). For two sets of data with differing sized bars either side of the centre we must use the traditional method of a stacked bar chart.
Excel, Teams, Power BI, PowerPoint, Zoom, G Sheets, Meets: New tech features for Dec 20-Feb 21
Our quarterly digest of new features across Microsoft 365 & other business tech products in written, images & video format.
When AI can fall foul of bias
How to safeguard your programs from bias
Python data and successful coding
Python is the computer language of choice for accountants. Kirstin Gillon explores its data-handling and statistical capabilities, and Rick Payne describes learning to code.
ECA calls for better exchange and analysis of tax data
25 February 2021: Fair and effective taxation in the single market continues to be hampered by insufficient sharing of tax information, according to a recent report issued by the European Court of Auditors.