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Resources covering data analytics and big data, data handling, data protection and GDPR, and data presentation.

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SMEs must wise up to cyber security risks
the 21st-century evolution of cyber security
Iain Murray, Director of Public Financial Management, CIPFA
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Data Protection and Privacy

Data protection and privacy

All organisations that collect, store or process personal information on living and identifiable people must comply with the Data Protection Act 2018. Additional resources can be found on the GDPR (now the Data Protection Act 2018 in the UK).
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Data Analytics Community

Data Analytics Community

As data analytics plays an increasingly pivotal role in supporting audit, assurance and business decision-making, this ICAEW community will help finance professionals develop the advanced data analytics and visualisation skills needed to succeed in this insight-driven era.
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Leading data-led decision making in local government

Finance professionals are pivotal in ensuring local authority decisions on service delivery are grounded in robust data analysis. CIPFA’s Iain Murray outlines the role of finance teams in ensuring data-led decision-making and the skills required for success.
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In the nick of time: EU grants UK data protection adequacy decision

With the 30 June deadline approaching, the EU has agreed an adequacy decision for the UK, allowing the free flow of personal data from the EU to the UK to continue.
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Data analytics

Get advanced data analysis, from number crunching and spreadsheets to decision-support and strategy, including access to useful and practical Excel guidance. Plus, find out how big data is used and can benefit the accountancy profession.


Driving data analytics in sport
  • Event
  • 05 Sep 2025
Exam guide: Business Insight and Performance
  • Article
  • 29 Aug 2025
Get a head start on your introduction to management accounting with this Certificate Level and ICAEW CFAB exam guide.
Getting to yes persuading clients to give you their data
  • Event
  • 20 Aug 2025
Using data and technology to drive innovation in internal audit
  • Webinar
  • 20 Jun 2025
This engaging webinar recording delves into the cutting-edge trends in data, technology, and internal audit tools.
Data: a new emerging type of intangible
  • Report
  • 12 Jun 2025
This report, commissioned by ICAEW’s Charitable Trusts, explores whether and how data can yield economic benefits, and whether its omission from financial statements hinders decision-making for users of those reports.
17 November 2025 virtual classroom Innovating finance with AI a guide to digital technologies and th
  • Event
  • 27 May 2025
Cyber round-up: New frontiers for security
  • Article
  • 27 Mar 2025
This month’s cyber bulletin explores the latest in cyber security, looking at how the landscape is changing, with shifting geopolitical alliances and technology advancements, and many organisations still needing to get the basics right.
CAW and Ipsos Research - AI and the future of the global chartered accountancy profession
  • Event
  • 12 Mar 2025
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Data protection and privacy

Cyber round-up: March 2024
  • Article
  • 27 Mar 2024
This month we look at what can be learned from state-sponsored cyber attacks, how to avoid falling victim to increasingly sophisticated account takeover scams, and the ICO guidance on levels of fines for data breaches.
Accountability: building trust and ethics in the digital age
  • Article
  • 05 Mar 2024
New technologies are a force for good – they fuel innovation, improve efficiencies, enhance communication, and increase productivity – but they also raise new challenges that can be harmful. We’ve witnessed in recent years how technology has had undesirable consequences, with data breaches and online surveillance resulting in widespread concerns over privacy, security, and the spread of disinformation. This has eroded trust in businesses and institutions, while simultaneously knocking the confidence of businesses to fully embrace technological change.
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Join the Excel Community

Do you use Excel in your organisation? Are you using it to its maximum potential? Develop your skills and minimise spreadsheet risk with our Excel resources. Membership is free to ICAEW members. Non-ICAEW members are also welcome to join. 

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Excel community

The Excel Community provides a 'one-stop shop' for accountants who want to use Excel.
Heard the one about two underused Excel functions?
  • Article
  • 04 Sep 2025
David Benaim sold out his run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe with a comedy show based around Excel. He’s bringing a taste of his spreadsheet-based comedy to ICAEW’s Excel at 40 event.
Introducing Excel’s New COPILOT Function
  • Article
  • 22 Aug 2025
Excel has launched it’s “latest and greatest” function, COPILOT. Currently it is in Beta and only available to users on the Beta Channel, through the Microsoft Insider Program.
How AI can enhance your Excel documents
  • Article
  • 22 Aug 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is fast becoming a transformational tool for finance, but experts warn that caution is still required.
How to supercharge your Excel analytics
  • Article
  • 15 Aug 2025
Ever wondered how you can turn raw data into insight using tools like Power Query and Power Pivot? Excel expert and chartered accountant Mark Proctor has the answers.
Exclusive Seeing stars – managing relationships with Power BI
  • Article
  • 13 Aug 2025
In our short series on Power BI and conditional formatting we have so far added a star to highlight our 500th Tips and Tricks article and then created a table to identify key articles for our on-demand course modules so that we can add a star to each of those articles too. This has given us the opportunity to look at data structures and joins between tables as well as conditional formatting itself. This time we will investigate the table joins in a bit more detail.
Exclusive Excel Tips and Tricks #502
  • Article
  • 11 Aug 2025
Welcome back to Excel Tips and Tricks! This time, we have a Basic level post exploring some simple tips and tricks for formatting your data to maximise its impact.
Exclusive Summarising Vertical Lists Horizontally
  • Article
  • 08 Aug 2025
For the second month running, I have an article inspired by recent consulting problems. Obviously, I will change the data! Imagine we have a table called Data (sorry, that’s as far as my imagination goes!) that contains details of some new items and their suppliers in a standard tabular format (i.e. a vertical list), as below. Let’s suppose we need to import this data into an inventory management system.
40 years of Excel's weird & wonderful quirks
  • Article
  • 05 Aug 2025
The world’s favourite spreadsheet turns 40 next month, so before a full-on Excel-stential crisis (with a title like that you didn’t expect some bad puns?), let’s explore some oddities.
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