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Intro to Financial Modelling - Part 9: Clarity - Labelling & explanation
This article focuses on the fundamental aspects of adding labelling and explanations to Excel models and examples of how this can be achieved to ensure model risks are managed.
Handover information to a new agent: how would you do this?
Sometimes the parting of the ways is amicable and smooth – and sometimes it is bumpy and can leave a nasty taste in the mouth!
Excel Tip of the Week #357 - Removing duplicates redux
This week we have a General User level post in which we're making a definitive re-examination of how to remove duplicates in your data using Excel. This was most recently covered in TOTW #98.
Chartech magazine
July/August 2020
Topical tech news roundup, advisory services, technology in audit, five Excel top tips, digital transformation and tech-driven contact tracing measures.
May/June 2020
Topical tech news from around the world, increase your productivity, is broadband keeping society together, home is the new workspace, greener tech, and risk and assurance in emerging technologies.
March/April 2020
What makes digital-first banking products so popular; climate change then and now; Excel tips; staying safe online; stronger partnership with NCSC; machine learning and artificial intelligence; and 100 years of women in accountancy.
January/February 2020
Topical tech news from around the world; is more regulation the way to promote cyber best practice?; what should smaller practices consider when looking for an IT provider?; avoiding spreadsheet errors; and the recent DDoS attack on the Labour Party.
Excel articles
Read the latest articles. Includes advice and guidance and top tips to improve your Excel efficiency and minimise spreadsheet risk.
Excel community
The Excel Community provides a 'one-stop shop' for accountants who want to use Excel.
Webinar recordings
Archive of webinar recordings. Includes financial modelling, PivotTables, Power Query, Excel Tip of the Week Live and many more.
Excel online training
There are now eight different suites of Excel online training available as part of your membership subscription – this is a major benefit. Improve your Excel capabilities and minimise spreadsheet risk.
Tech Faculty webinars
How technology is transforming audit
Technology is transforming audit.
Risk and assurance in emerging technologies
In this publication launch, we will go through the key lessons of the report, discuss AI and automation as an example, and go over how to consider the risks and responses for other new tech.
Five questions boards should ask about cyber security
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued guidance to help boards get to grips with cyber security, perhaps more important now than it has ever been.
Five steps to cyber hygiene for the smaller firm
This webinar will highlight the five steps smaller firms can take to help prevent 80% of cyber-attacks and improve the cyber security of their firms and clients.
Tech Essentials resources
Essential guide to world of add-ons
This guidance will help to shape your thinking on what is possible with add-ons; formulate and clarify firm (and client) expectations; recognise limitations and set boundaries; identify potential benefits and hurdles.
The essential guide to data protection when outsourcing
It is often said that data is the new oil – the raw material that drives industry in so many ways. Like all resources, data needs to be used wisely and protected. This guide looks at protecting data when using outsourced services.
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’.
The essential guide to the virtual FD
The Essential Guide to the Virtual Financial Director provides examples of how practitioners are providing this valuable service to a range of clients today. By reading the guide you will become familiar with the key concepts and be able to start exploring new services to your clients.
Practice tips
Handover information to a new agent: how would you do this?
Sometimes the parting of the ways is amicable and smooth – and sometimes it is bumpy and can leave a nasty taste in the mouth!
How many IT changes are needed when a staff member leaves?
Staff come to the firm or practice, and staff go again. The leaving may be retirement, moving on to another practice-either locally or moving away, or it may be they have decided to set up on their own.
The software does not work – it is “rubbish”
Does that phrase (or something along those lines) sound familiar? We have probably all been there and had “issues” at one time or another.
The HMRC digital roadmap
Making Tax Digital is a key part of the government’s plans to make it easier for individuals and businesses to get their tax right and keep on top of their affairs.
Tech Talk videos
AI - what does it mean for the future of accountancy?
Join Artificial Intelligence expert Professor Moshe Vardi on 30 June for this live-streamed event to discuss the growth of AI and its impact on the accounting profession.
Blockchain, bitcoin and the future of the accountancy profession
Join Mark Taylor and David Lyford-Smith of ICAEW, and Aynsley Damery of the Clarity Project, for the second in our series of IT Faculty ‘Tech Talks’, this time on the subject of blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and how these will affect the future of the accountancy profession.
Cyber security: addressing a key business risk
A short film about cyber threats and how to mitigate the risk
Data – a world of opportunities
Join Mark Taylor and Kirstin Gillon of ICAEW, and Anthony Sayce FCA of EY, for the fourth in our series of Tech Faculty ‘Tech Talks’, this time on the subject of data and the opportunities it presents for practice and business.