Sharpening the Focus on Corporate Fraud: an Audit Firm Perspective
A snapshot of the steps being taken by audit firms to better facilitate fraud deterrence and detection.
Reports, guidance and thought leadership on data analytics.
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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.
Data analytics allows firms to harness data, both internal and external, to provide faster, deeper analysis for better decision-making. These tools offer accountants the ability to track client performance at a more granular level and identify ways to build in efficiencies.
Reduce the risk that your spreadsheet gives you the wrong answer.
Resources to support you with data analytics software within the Professional Level Audit and Assurance exam.
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.
This special report will be a handy go-to guide – we take you through the latest techniques and thinking behind the new smart world with which CFOs, and aspiring CFOs, must contend.
Data – how you get it and what you do with it – has been an important part of the accountant’s role since the beginning; but it is only now, with data exploding in volume, variety and velocity, that accountants can start to add serious value to their business and that of their clients. As the guide says, ‘data analytics can broadly be defined as the use of data to support business decisions’.
This thought leadership report delves into the ethics of new technology and the seismic developments currently taking place in AI and algorithms, which are both exciting and morally concerning.
The continuing growth in data opens up a wide range of opportunities for finance professionals, but to take advantage of these opportunities new skills are required. This framework is designed to help organisations and individuals map out what skills they need to develop.
This report explores many of the hot topics now facing the UK and global economy.
This paper has been produced based on comments from the breakfast briefing jointly organised by The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), on 13 December 2017 at DFSA.
Find out how accountants working in business can better support their organisations as a result of big data, based on real experience in China.
This month’s report looks at the impact and influence that technology is having on our roles in finance.
Learn about the impact of artificial intelligence and the opportunities it presents for the accountancy profession
This guide is designed to help alleviate some of the fears that lie behind the inertia on data analytics. There is information about how to get started using the resources you already have or to find out about others, and case studies to show how using data analytics has helped some practices already.
How internal auditors should strengthen their governance frameworks to cover emerging data-analytics risks in the areas of quality, talent, independence and security.