Accountancy Insights
Trump, tariffs and EU turmoil: 2025 predictions
- Podcast
- ICAEW Insights
In this special episode of Accountancy Insights, we look ahead to the most significant events and trends anticipated in 2025.
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How CFO Bushra Hanif empowers women in Pakistan
- Article
- 22 Jan 2025
ACA-qualified chartered accountant Hanif is one of the few female CFOs in Pakistan leading from the front in transforming finance teams – and women’s healthcare to boot.
Autumn Budget aftershocks squeeze UK economy
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- 22 Jan 2025
Economic update: the UK is struggling following a difficult Budget and turbulence in financial markets. ICAEW’s Economies Director Suren Thiru discusses the implications.
Understanding what we can and can’t trust with AI
- Article
- 22 Jan 2025
As the applications of AI continue to grow and grow, Laura Beales learns from fellow members in this video how she can use AI responsibly and in the right way to grow her business.
Taxing cryptoassets: what you need to know
- Article
- 21 Jan 2025
While there is currently no such thing as a ‘crypto tax’, this does not mean that tax does not apply to these intangible (and mysterious) assets. We look at how the tax rules apply to cryptoassets.
Update on making tax digital and jointly owned property
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- 21 Jan 2025
HMRC has made changes to the making tax digital income tax (MTD IT) notices, mainly relating to income from property. The current self assessment reporting relaxation for joint property will not be available to those in MTD IT.
New HMRC powers are not the answer, says ICAEW
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- 21 Jan 2025
ICAEW has responded to the government’s consultation on new ways to tackle non-compliance by calling on HMRC to make better use of its existing powers and to do more to simplify the tax system.
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.
How to fix VAT
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ICAEW explores the challenges and opportunities offered in reimagining VAT and it's application. Read about the history of VAT, the lessons that can be learned from outside the UK and the potential of digitalisation.
Global Ethics Day
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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.
Local government finance: skills for the future
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Improving financial skills at local authorities is critical in balancing the books and delivering value for citizens. As backstop dates for audited accounts come into force, ICAEW explores how local authorities can strengthen their approach to financial management.
Accounting Intelligence
ICAEW has created a range of resources to support members in business and practice build their understanding of AI. There are video masterclasses, as well as features discussing opportunities, challenges, limitations, risk management and ethics.
Videos
AI masterclass on better audit sampling
- Video
- 29 Oct 2024
Konrad Bukowski-Kruszyna ACA, Head of Audit Data Analytics, RSM UK outlines how generative AI can help ensure that audit sampling is being handled correctly.
What is VAT?
- Video
- 19 Nov 2024
Value added tax is a vital tool for raising revenue to fund education, healthcare and more. We explain how it works and how it could be improved.
AI masterclass on reviewing company controls
- Video
- 30 Oct 2024
Jenny Blewett FCA, Head of Finance at Costello Medical talks about how she used generative AI to help check her firm’s banking controls when she was new in post.
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.
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Trump, tariffs and EU turmoil: 2025 predictions
- Podcast
- 03 Jan 2025
In this special episode of Accountancy Insights, we look ahead to the most significant events and trends anticipated in 2025.
The financial case for sustainability
- Podcast
- 12 Dec 2024
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss the progress of sustainability reporting.
Regulating tax advice, plus new professional behaviour wording
- Podcast
- 02 Dec 2024
In this episode, we speak to Ray McCann, fresh from delivering this year’s Hardman Lecture on Monday 25 November, about regulating the provision of tax advice.
Chart of the week: Public finances per capita
- Article
- 17 Jan 2025
Our chart this week divides some very big numbers for the public finances by an estimated 69.2m people living in the UK to highlight how UK public spending is now in excess of £1,500 per person per month.
Chart of the week: Defence spending battle lines
- Article
- 10 Jan 2025
Our chart this week takes a dive into the £53.9bn Ministry of Defence expenditure in 2023/24 ahead of what is likely to be a charged debate about defence spending in the coming year.
Chart of the week: Commonwealth of Australia balance sheet
- Article
- 20 Dec 2024
Our chart this week heads down under for some warmer weather and to take a look at the Australian federal government balance sheet in its recently published consolidated financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2024.
Insights by topic
Climate hub
- Hub page
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.
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.