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AUDIT AND ASSURANCE FACULTY
Efficient pensions audits for trustees – common information requests
- 13 Mar 2025
- Helen Pierpoint and Amelia Pickard
- ICAEW
- Audit and Beyond
Understanding more about common requests for information can make them easier for pension scheme trustees to deal with. Helen Pierpoint and Amelia Pickard share some insights.
EXCEL COMMUNITY
Your Questions Answered #13 - Mastering Copilot in Excel
- 10 Mar 2025
- David Fortin
- ICAEW
In a recent webinar, David Fortin, Microsoft MVP and founder of Piggy Bank Accountant, explored how to get started with Microsoft’s Copilot and the basics of Copilot’s functionality in Excel. In this article, David returns to answer your most asked questions.
How to navigate software platform migration
- 25 Feb 2025
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Whether driven by cost, functionality, security or compliance, software migration is a complex process that requires careful planning. ICAEW highlights key considerations for practices and businesses looking to migrate.
BDO’s Ethics Watermark tackles AI’s new frontier
- 13 Nov 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
BDO senior leaders reveal to ICAEW members how the firm’s ‘ethics by design’ framework is meeting the artificial intelligence challenge.
HMRC turns the spotlight on GDPR provisions
- 21 Oct 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
In Spotlight 65, HMRC has alerted taxpayers to issues with provisions for potential general data protection regulation (GDPR) fines or civil claims.
AI adoption challenges: an ethical dilemma for auditors
- 16 Oct 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Artificial intelligence offers a lot of opportunities for audit firms and practitioners, but implementing AI solutions into audit functions comes with some complicated considerations.
Ethics: How to ensure effective governance on AI projects
- 15 Oct 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
ICAEW’s Trust and Ethics team share lessons learned from practitioners, academics and standard-setters on implementing robust governance strategies for artificial intelligence tools.
Why small accounting firms are prime targets for cybercriminals
- 08 Oct 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Cyber Security Awareness Month: SMEs and small accounting firms are not taking cyber security seriously enough, according to Daniel Teacher.
PRACTICE DEPARTMENT
Outsourcing and GDPR – getting to the facts
- 07 Oct 2024
- Advancetrack
- ICAEW
- Practicewire
There is much commentary around GDPR compliance and outsourcers…but can you cut through the sales pitches and get to the facts? Advancetrack explains what needs to be done.
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Top 10 AI adoption questions for businesses and ICAEW members
- 29 Aug 2024
- ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
- ICAEW
Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) potential to transform how businesses operate has led to a growing number of organisations to consider the impact that AI can, and will, have upon them.
Cyber round-up: March 2024
- 27 Mar 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month we look at what can be learned from state-sponsored cyber attacks, how to avoid falling victim to increasingly sophisticated account takeover scams, and the ICO guidance on levels of fines for data breaches.
Accountability: building trust and ethics in the digital age
- 05 Mar 2024
- Gavin Aspden, PwC Partner and Professional Development Head
- ICAEW
New technologies are a force for good – they fuel innovation, improve efficiencies, enhance communication, and increase productivity – but they also raise new challenges that can be harmful. We’ve witnessed in recent years how technology has had undesirable consequences, with data breaches and online surveillance resulting in widespread concerns over privacy, security, and the spread of disinformation. This has eroded trust in businesses and institutions, while simultaneously knocking the confidence of businesses to fully embrace technological change.
Cyber round-up: February 2024
- 28 Feb 2024
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
This month we look at the latest stories in the world of cyber, the lessons 2023 has taught us on how to improve cyber security, and the changes to the Online Safety Act.
Cyber month: why AI offers both security and threat
- 12 Oct 2023
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The average cost of data breaches is increasing, particularly for smaller firms, while AI is increasingly used for both cyber security and malware.
Legal considerations
- 26 Jan 2024
- ICAEW
Dr Sam De Silva, Partner and Global Co Head of the Commercial Practice Group at international law firm, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP (CMS) and member of the ICAEW Tech Board, shares his thoughts on the legal and regulatory issues you should consider when using generative AI in your organisation.
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How could your professional liability combined cover protect your accountancy business further?
- 17 Jul 2023
- Marsh Commercial
- ICAEW
In the current business landscape, accountants face numerous challenges in providing their services efficiently and effectively. One important aspect often overlooked is the need for comprehensive office insurance. Marsh Commercial explain how office insurance offers protection against a range of risks and potential liabilities that can threaten the stability and reputation of your business.
Opportunities and risks follow ICO call for SME advice
- 20 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
As the Information Commissioner’s Office urges accountants to help SME clients navigate data protection legislation, Matthew Wilkinson-Foster explains the opportunities and risks this presents.
ICO urges accountants to bolster SME data protection compliance
- 14 Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
The data protection regulator is calling on accountants to step up in helping their SME clients navigate complex data protection legislation, against a backdrop of further changes to the legislation.
Head in the clouds: cyber risks and data protection
- 28 Oct 2022
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
There is a common misconception that in moving to cloud-based systems, your technology environment is less secure. ICAEW’s Head of Data Analytics and Tech, Ian Pay, explores why this isn’t necessarily the case.
Will corporate data protection rules become less stringent?
- 04 Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
Proposed law changes around corporate data protection measures appear to pave the way for a more relaxed regime – but is that really the case?
In the nick of time: EU grants UK data protection adequacy decision
- 29 Jun 2021
- ICAEW Insights
- ICAEW
With the 30 June deadline approaching, the EU has agreed an adequacy decision for the UK, allowing the free flow of personal data from the EU to the UK to continue.
HMRC outlines late-filing penalty notices data breach
- 20 Apr 2021
- Tax Faculty
- ICAEW
ICAEW members in practice have been among thousands of agents who have received late-filing penalty notices which are not for their clients. HMRC has investigated and provided an update on what went wrong.
Draft decision deems UK data laws ‘adequate’
- 23 Feb 2021
- ICAEW
24 February 2021: The UK government has welcomed the European Commission’s recent draft data adequacy decision, which paves the way for the continued free flow of data from the EU and the UK.
Data protection now the UK has left the EU: January 2021 update
- 04 Jan 2021
- ICAEW
Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, ICAEW Insights has the latest on how this affects GDPR and the sensitive issue of data protection.
Managing risks through better design principles
- 01 Jun 2020
- David Lyford-Smith
- ICAEW
Organisations need to tackle the risks associated with adopting cognitive technology so that they can benefit from the potential efficiencies and insights that it can offer.
Risks of cognitive technologies
- 01 Jun 2020
- David Lyford-Smith
- ICAEW
Key risk areas that have arisen from our research include inexplicability, data protection, bias and context, as well as wider automation risks. These areas include both larger-scale strategic risks around adopting cognitive technologies and tactical considerations that may affect specific projects.
Cyber security: how accountancy should address risks
- 03 Oct 2019
- David Adams
- ICAEW
- Economia
The growing role played by accountancy firms in helping clients to improve their security posture
TECH FACULTY
A place of cyber safety
- 29 Nov 2017
- Alan Calder
- ICAEW
- Chartech
Alan Calder assesses how Brexit is likely to affect cyber security in the UK.
EXCEL COMMUNITY
Saving to PDF in Office
- 20 May 2016
- Simon Hurst
- ICAEW
Blog post citing the case of a data breach by a hospital trust which made an Excel spreadsheet widely available and more data than intended could be accessed by double clicking on the live PivotTable. The author reminds users that such breaches can be avoided by saving the desired data to a PDF.
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