Behind the numbers
A ticking tech skills timebomb
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- ICAEW Insights
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss continuous learning around technology and artificial intelligence.
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New sanctions for Russia as Ukraine war enters fourth year
- Article
- 26 Feb 2025
UK announces largest sanctions package against Russia since 2022, imposing 107 new measures to disrupt funds going into Putin’s war chest.
Key questions to align transition and financial planning
- Article
- 26 Feb 2025
A new paper from A4S and ICAEW outlines how organisations can get started when it comes to aligning financial planning and transition planning.
Virgin Media pension ruling poses challenges for auditors
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- 26 Feb 2025
The 2024 Virgin Media Ltd v NTL Pension Trustees II Ltd ruling on pension amendments poses financial and reporting challenges for trustees, sponsors and auditors. ICAEW’s Audit and Assurance Faculty explains the impact on defined benefit schemes.
VAT compliance controls: new guidance from HMRC
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- 25 Feb 2025
HMRC’s guidelines for compliance are intended to lower the risk of errors and reduce the likelihood of checks.
Tax news in brief 26 February 2025
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- 25 Feb 2025
Highlights from the broader tax news for the week ending 26 February 2025, including: a new feature in the agent services account (ASA); and an opinion from the general anti-abuse rule (GAAR) advisory panel on inheritance tax (IHT) arrangements.
HMRC to start contacting taxpayers about making tax digital
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- 25 Feb 2025
HMRC has informed agents that, from April 2025, it will write to sole traders and landlords who may need to comply with making tax digital (MTD) for income tax from April 2026.
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 update and HMRC service standards
- Podcast
- 13 Feb 2025
In this episode, we discuss the latest developments in President Trump’s tariffs rollout and how they may affect UK businesses.
A ticking tech skills timebomb
- Podcast
- 31 Jan 2025
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss continuous learning around technology and artificial intelligence.
Trump, tariffs and EU turmoil: 2025 predictions
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- 03 Jan 2025
In this special episode of Accountancy Insights, we look ahead to the most significant events and trends anticipated in 2025.
Chart of the week: UK Regular Forces
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- 21 Feb 2025
Our chart this week illustrates how soldier, sailor and aircrew numbers have fallen from 338,000 fifty years ago to a new low of 136,000 on 1 Jan 2025. Could this be the turning point now that defence spending is back on the agenda?
Chart of the week: UN budget contributions 2025
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- 14 Feb 2025
Our chart this week looks at the assessed contributions of member states to the United Nations Regular Budget for 2025.
Chart of the week: the end of year capital rush
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- 07 Feb 2025
Our chart this week highlights the big rush in UK public sector capital expenditure in the final quarter of each financial year, prompting us to ask why March is the best time of the year to build new assets.
Insights by topic
Insights index
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This page provides an entry point to the articles that have formed the daily, monthly and weekly member emails, arranged by section and month. It also contains an index of themed Insights specials and the Quarterly magazine.
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.
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.
EU and international trade
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A range of resources on the implications of the UK leaving the EU on 31 December 2020.
Regulatory News
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A round-up of regulatory and conduct updates and communications from the ICAEW Professional Standards Department.
Sponsored content
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Hear what our partners are saying on topical issues impacting the accountancy profession.