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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We need audit reform from our next government
- Article
- 28 Mar 2024
ICAEW has given evidence to the Business and Trade Committee on the challenges of audit and corporate governance reform. Iain Wright, ICAEW’s Managing Director, Reputation and Influence, explains what’s needed.
Support for Scotland's Circular Economy Route Map
- Article
- 28 Mar 2024
ICAEW responds to the Scottish government’s draft plan to create a circular economy by 2030, calling for the private sector and the profession to take a central role.
ICAEW pushes for charity audit threshold consultation
- Article
- 28 Mar 2024
Call for review of charity audit thresholds as inflation drags many smaller charities into scope against a backdrop of harsh financial challenges across the third sector.
Making tax digital testing to be launched
- Article
- 28 Mar 2024
Agents will be invited to sign up clients later in April for making tax digital income tax self assessment. ICAEW will consider the pros and cons in a webinar.
HMRC stops paper notifications for tax repayments
- Article
- 28 Mar 2024
A taxpayer receiving a repayment of corporation tax or income tax self assessment will no longer receive a letter notifying them of the repayment.
ICAEW gives five reasons to use the HMRC app
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- 28 Mar 2024
Join the 1.2m people a month using HMRC’s app to get tax information, stay up to date with tax payments and more.
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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Does Britain have a farming problem?
- Podcast
- 08 Mar 2024
In this Insights In Focus episode, we discuss how changes to the funding of British farms could affect the UK’s broader economic resilience.
Budget 2024: does it change anything?
- Podcast
- 08 Mar 2024
In this Insights In Focus episode, we discuss the contents of the 2024 Spring Budget and their likely impacts on the UK economy.
Will accountants save the world? With ICAEW CEO Michael Izza
- Podcast
- 29 Feb 2024
In this Insights In Focus episode, we catch up with ICAEW Chief Executive Michael Izza ahead of his stepping down from his role later this month.
Chart of the week: Retail sales
- Article
- 27 Mar 2024
Our chart this week looks at how retail sales have increased by 19.5% over the past five years, comprising a 1.4% fall in volumes and a 21.2% increase in prices.
Chart of the week: Core inflation
- Article
- 21 Mar 2024
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee held interest rates constant at its latest meeting, despite CPI falling to 3.4% in February and core inflation dropping to 4.5%.
Chart of the week: wage inflation
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- 14 Mar 2024
Our chart this week takes a look at how average earnings have risen over the last decade and how they compare with the headline rate of inflation.
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Climate hub
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.
CEO and President's insights
View an archive of blogs from ICAEW CEO, Michael Izza, and from past ICAEW presidents.
Diversity and Inclusion
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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