Making COP count
Through a range of practical content and case studies, this content series looks at the role the accountancy profession can and should play in addressing the climate crisis, and ensuring that any action also restores the earth’s ecosystem and is socially just.
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Corporate data: a new type of intangible
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- 08 May 2024
Research by ICAEW and the China Accounting Standard Committee highlights the challenges of accounting for corporate data resources and suggests a new framework for their treatment in financial statements.
Treasury trading platform poses challenges
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- 08 May 2024
PISCES paves the way for shares of private businesses to be traded in periodic auctions, but questions remain around demand and cost, ICAEW warns.
A-Track: €11m nature project launched
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- 07 May 2024
Ambitious four-year project will help to align decision-making by businesses and governments with the transition to a nature-positive economy.
Tax news in brief 08 May 2024
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- 07 May 2024
Highlights from the broader tax news for the week ending 8 May 2024, including: updated commentary to the GloBE rules; guidance on completing the tax return for companies in liquidation; and HMRC guidance for students and tax credit claimants.
ICAEW urges major simplification of tax penalties framework
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- 07 May 2024
The Tax Faculty welcomes the opportunity to reform tax administration but warns of significant challenges in implementing some of the changes. Existing safeguards should be publicised further.
Seven software products now support MTD ITSA
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- 07 May 2024
HMRC has added APARI and Digita Personal Tax to the list of software products compatible with making tax digital (MTD) for income tax self assessment (ITSA).
A listing of one-off Insights specials that focus on a particular subject, interviewing the key people, identifying developing trends and examining the underlying issues.
Making COP count
- 02 Nov 2023
Through a range of practical content and case studies, this content series looks at the role the accountancy profession can and should play in addressing the climate crisis, and ensuring that any action also restores the earth’s ecosystem and is socially just.
Resilience and Renewal: Building an economy fit for the future
- 12 Oct 2023
This content examines economic issues that UK business and chartered accountants are at the centre of tackling to build a better, more resilient future. We explore productivity, skills and international trade.
Recentring ethics
- 29 Sep 2023
Ethics must not fade into the background. For Global Ethics Day on 18 October, ICAEW emphasises the importance of ethics for leadership and culture within the profession.
Videos
Ethical decision making and the challenges of AI
- 13 Oct 2023
A group of international experts discuss the benefits and potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence becoming an integral part of the accountancy profession.
A recipe for growth
- 26 Sep 2023
A local economic success story in Leeds offers broader lessons for how to encourage investment and so boost productivity.
Resilience and Renewal: Building an Economy Fit for the Future
- 19 Sep 2023
A new content series exploring three major economic challenges and the businesses and chartered accountants that are finding solutions.
Sustainability and accounting
- 13 Oct 2023
Accountancy experts from across the globe discuss their views on the inter-relation between professional ethics and sustainability.
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Lessons in leadership from ICAEW's CEO
- 02 May 2024
In this special episode of Insights In Focus, we meet new ICAEW CEO Alan Vallance to discuss the leadership lessons of his career.
So you want to be a leader?
- 17 Apr 2024
In this Insights In Focus episode, we discuss how accountants can build the skills needed to take on leadership and executive roles during their careers.
A busy new tax year, plus progress on the Economic Crime Act
- 08 Apr 2024
In this episode, we discuss why the arrival of the 2024/25 tax year is particularly busy for accountants, and the main changes to be aware of from 6 April.
Chart of the week: Global military spending
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- 26 Apr 2024
While the UK commits to increasing its defence and security expenditure, our chart this week looks at military spending around the world, which has reached $2.4trn.
Chart of the week: IMF Fiscal Monitor
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- 19 Apr 2024
Our chart this week finds that the UK is ranking highly in the IMF’s latest five-year forecasts for general government net debt.
Chart of the week: Public spending crunch
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- 12 Apr 2024
Public spend as a share of the economy must fall over the next five years to make the sums add up – a big challenge for the next government.
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Climate change is a crucial issue for the accounting profession. Are you professionally ready to mitigate the risk and maximise the opportunity of climate change? Find inspiration, information and practical resources to support the goals set out in the Paris Agreement and in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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View an archive of blogs from ICAEW CEO, Michael Izza, and from past ICAEW presidents.
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ICAEW is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. In this hub we bring together timely D&I resources on the protected characteristics of the Equality Act, along with our latest insights into diversity in the profession.
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