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Pulling together opinion, analysis, interviews and features on the profession along with a focus on the key issues affecting accountancy and the world of business.

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Behind the numbers

How to stop accountancy’s brain drain

  • Podcast
  • ICAEW Insights
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss ways to improve recruitment and retention in accountancy.
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Latest news

Chart of the week: UK pension funds
  • Article
  • 20 Sep 2024
Our chart this week is on the ￡2.0tn market value of funded occupational pension schemes on 31 March 2024 and how their assets are invested.
FRC updates to UK GAAP - how to prepare
  • Article
  • 20 Sep 2024
The Financial Reporting Council’s new September 2024 editions of UK and Ireland financial reporting standards include changes to FRS 101 and FRS 102. ICAEW’s Corporate Reporting Faculty has resources to ensure you’re ready.
An accountant in public service
  • Article
  • 19 Sep 2024
King’s Honours: former chartered accountant Chris White has been active in district politics since 1998.

Latest tax news

ICAEW makes its case for Budget tax measures
  • Article
  • 19 Sep 2024
ICAEW has set out its recommendations for the business tax roadmap to be published at the Budget and has encouraged the government to carry-out a wider review of the tax system. ICAEW's Tax Faculty goes through the details.
Tax news in brief 18 September 2024
  • Article
  • 18 Sep 2024
Highlights from the broader tax news for the week ending 18 September 2024, including: HMRC pillar two guidance; an update to the system for providing information in support of a claim for R&D tax relief; and new VAT legislation relating to caravans.
ICAEW calls again for FHL brightline test
  • Article
  • 18 Sep 2024
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty has responded to the government’s consultation on draft legislation which provides for the abolition of the furnished holiday lettings (FHL) tax regime from April 2025.

Insights specials

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.

The World’s Fastest Accountant
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Eugene Amo-Dadzie is one of the world’s fastest sprinters, a father of two and and a full-time chartered accountant. This is his story.
Resilience and Renewal: Building an economy fit for the future
  • Hub page
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.
Global Ethics Day
  • Hub page
ICAEW celebrates Global Ethics Day each year. The 2024 theme is "Ethics empowered: using the power of ethics to build a better world”, and ICAEW is examining the vital role ethics must play in the development of technology.

Videos

Private equity: is it here to stay?
Private equity: is it here to stay?
  • Video
  • 22 May 2024
Matt Meadows, Managing Partner, Moore Kingston Smith, and Caroline Monk, Executive Partner, Beever and Struthers, on their views of private equity on the accountancy sector.
Eugene's story
Eugene's story
  • Video
  • 20 May 2024
In 2023 Eugene Amo-Dadzie ran 100m in 9.93 seconds, making him the fourth-fastest Briton and 10th-fastest European in history. All while working as a full time chartered accountant.
Ethical decision making and the challenges of AI
Ethical decision making and the challenges of AI
  • Video
  • 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
A recipe for growth
  • Video
  • 26 Sep 2023
A local economic success story in Leeds offers broader lessons for how to encourage investment and so boost productivity.

The opinions expressed by external guest speakers in interviews or other publications included on this website are, by their nature, those of the speaker. They are not necessarily fully endorsed by the ICAEW or purport to reflect the official policies and views of the ICAEW or its members.

Podcast episodes

Taxing cryptoassets and reporting suspicions of fraud
  • Podcast
  • 09 Sep 2024
In this episode, we discuss the available guidance on, and the application of general principles to, the taxation of cryptoassets; as well as how auditors should be acting on their obligation to report suspicions of fraud to the regulator.
Business confidence, local authority finance, probate delays, and tax reform
  • Podcast
  • 12 Aug 2024
In this bumper episode, we discuss the latest findings of ICAEW’s Business Confidence Monitor, why three-quarters of councils in England are at least a year behind in publishing audited accounts, and more.
Why are female-led startups so underfunded?
  • Podcast
  • 02 Aug 2024
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss gender inequality in investment.

Charts of the week

Chart of the week: UK pension funds
  • Article
  • 20 Sep 2024
Our chart this week is on the ￡2.0tn market value of funded occupational pension schemes on 31 March 2024 and how their assets are invested.
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Chart of the week: UK long-term fiscal projections
  • Article
  • 13 Sep 2024
The OBR’s latest fiscal risks and sustainability report projects that public debt could reach 274% of GDP in 50 years’ time, or 324% if likely economic shocks are included.
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Chart of the week: Eurozone government bond yields
  • Article
  • 06 Sep 2024
Our chart this week is on the cost of government borrowing in the Eurozone, which on 4 September ranged from 2.17% for Danish 10-year bonds up to 3.59% for their Italian equivalents.

Insights by topic

Climate hub
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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.
CEO and President's insights
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View an archive of blogs from ICAEW CEO, Michael Izza, and from past ICAEW presidents.
Diversity and Inclusion
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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.
Sponsored content
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Hear what our partners are saying on topical issues impacting the accountancy profession.