Digitising your practice
Mastering mid-tier technology
- Hub page
- 29 Jun 2023
In our first post-pandemic research focused on mid-tier practice technology, we’ve seen some substantial changes in the landscape. Responses have given us cause to be optimistic, but also highlight challenges in the digital transformation journey. Addressing these challenges presents opportunities for firms, software providers and ICAEW.
Advisory is not just about the apps but they do help...
- Article
- 27 Jan 2021
- Andrew Coulson
In this article, Andrew Coulson FCA talks about how to select apps for advisory and how to use them to support delivering business advice.
Develop your digital practice
- Article
- 03 Jan 2024
- Matt Flanagan
How can accountants turn accounting apps to their advantage and use them to generate income? Matt Flanagan from BlueHub shares his tips.
Making Tax Digital
MPs call on HMRC to address challenges in tax administration
- 06 May 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee’s report reveals the challenges faced by HMRC in administering the increasingly complicated tax system, emphasising the need for simplification, improving trust among taxpayers and learning lessons from the implementation of MTD.
Technical round-up: April 2025
- 30 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
This month’s top stories feature new sanctions for tax advisers; a warning for couples with furnished holiday lets; and a dip in HMRC performance.
Cyber security: fake payments, receipts and invoices on the rise
- 30 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
April cyber round-up: new technologies are creating new threats. Here’s how accountants can guard against them.
Tax news in brief 29 April 2025
- 29 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Highlights from the broader tax news for the week ending 29 April 2025, including: updates to HMRC’s guidance on, and software page for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax; and new guidance on VAT grouping in the care industry.
HMRC explains agent roles for MTD income tax
- 23 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
New guidance published by HMRC sets out how main and supporting agents can help taxpayers manage their obligations under Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax.
Tips for preparing for MTD for income tax
- 22 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Making Tax Digital (MTD) for income tax will be phased in from April 2026 for many individuals with self employment and/or property income. ICAEW’s Tax Faculty explains the steps that agents can take now to prepare for the changes ahead.
Preparing your practice for MTD: effective pricing strategies for success
- 22 Apr 2025
- Sage
With Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax on the horizon, accountancy firms need a proactive and structured approach to pricing. Direct from the experts at Sage, who are running free MTD practice consultations, here’s how to build a value-driven, transparent, and sustainable pricing model that works for both you and your clients.
Cloud accounting software: lessons from failure of Bench
- 14 Apr 2025
- ICAEW Insights
Canadian cloud software provider Bench Accounting had a narrow escape from bankruptcy at the end of 2024. What happened offers lessons for the accountancy sector on this side of the Atlantic.
Data analytics
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Ethical use of big data in financial services – case studies
- Helpsheets and support
- 05 Mar 2019
- Financial Services Faculty
ICAEW’s Financial Services Faculty is looking at how firms and consumers can deal with the challenges presented by a big data world.
Data Analytics Transforming Internal Audit
- Report
- 17 Mar 2017
- Stephen Magora
A paper from Credit Suisse entitled: Data Analytics Transforming Internal Audit – Pillars of Success, written by Stephen Magora, Director, Data Analytics at Credit Suisse.
Internal audit in the age of data analytics
- Helpsheets and support
- 16 Jun 2017
- Audit and assurance Faculty
How internal auditors should strengthen their governance frameworks to cover emerging data-analytics risks in the areas of quality, talent, independence and security.
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