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.
Data analytics reports
Reports, guidance and thought leadership on data analytics.
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Digitalisation of tax: international perspectives
November 2016
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 of tax: international perspectives 2022
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.
The essential guide to data analytics
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.
How to review a spreadsheet report
Reduce the risk that your spreadsheet gives you the wrong answer.
Audit and Assurance data analytics resources
Resources to support you with data analytics software within the Professional Level Audit and Assurance exam.
Data analytics in external audit
A guide to the developments, opportunities and challenges that data analytics provides for auditors.
Risk assessment and response to risks in external audits understanding and applying the requirements
An overview of the relevant requirements, challenges and developments in risk assessment.
Big data and analytics: the impact on the accountancy profession
October 2019
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.
Special report 65 - Smart reporting
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.
The essential guide to data analytics for smaller firms
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’.
New technologies, ethics and accountability
June 2019
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.
ICAEW Finance data skills competency framework
October 2018
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.
Special Report 61: The UK economy
This report explores many of the hot topics now facing the UK and global economy.
Understanding the impact of technology in audit and finance
February 2018
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.
Big data in Chinese businesses
2017
Find out how accountants working in business can better support their organisations as a result of big data, based on real experience in China.
Special Report 59: Finance and Technology
This month’s report looks at the impact and influence that technology is having on our roles in finance.
Artificial intelligence and the future of accountancy
June 2017
Learn about the impact of artificial intelligence and the opportunities it presents for the accountancy profession
The essential guide to data analytics
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.
Internal audit in the age of data analytics
June 2017
How internal auditors should strengthen their governance frameworks to cover emerging data-analytics risks in the areas of quality, talent, independence and security.