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Free CPD: soft skills for leaders
  • 13 Nov 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
If you’re in a leadership role, an aspiring CFO, or even a CFO looking to become CEO, having strong people skills is a top priority. ICAEW has a range of resources to boost your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours while raising your EQ.
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The headhunter’s view: the downside to remote working
  • 22 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Want to get ahead? Get into the office, says Mark Freebairn.
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The skills most in demand by accountancy recruiters
  • 03 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Average CFO salaries in London demand £246k-plus and accountancy employers encourage staff to explore generative AI tools as demand for accountants proficient in digital transformation, automation and AI ramps up.
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Member profile: Michael Hadjipantela MEP
  • 04 Sep 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
A former Minister of Health for the Republic of Cyprus during the pandemic, the newly elected MEP and ICAEW member tells us how his accountancy background inspired his career in politics and his views on the future of the profession.
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How to shine in your first 3 months
  • 30 Aug 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Starting out as an accounting trainee can be both exciting and daunting. Our top 10 tips will help you lay a strong foundation as you begin your career.
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ICAEW accountant stars in Team GB Olympic rugby
  • 14 Aug 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Heather Cowell, Team GB rugby sevens forward and ICAEW Chartered Accountant, explains how playing hard and working smart paved the way for her success both on and off the field.
Free CPD: ISA 315
  • 11 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
What changed in the revised ISA 315 professional standard and how have auditors found applying the revised standard in practice? This article provides free continuing professional development (CPD) verifiable reading and webinars on the topic.
ICAEW’s tax content can help with CPD requirements
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
The summer could be a good time to complete some continuing professional development (CPD) hours and ICAEW’s Tax Faculty can help you do it.
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Government extends deadline for AI skills grants
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Accountancy firms now have until 18 August to apply for grants under the pilot of the government’s new AI Upskilling Fund, after the government extended the deadline by 11 weeks.
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Community boosts joint effort on fraud prevention
  • 29 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Fraud Advisory Panel initiative facilitates cross-sector collaboration – helping organisations with risk mitigation and highlighting career opportunities in the counter fraud field.
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ICAEW-CA Sri Lanka programme deemed ‘transformative’
  • 24 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
First student to complete the ICAEW-CA Sri Lanka Joint Student and Membership Scheme says it showcased her capabilities and helped her secure a role at one of the Big Four.
World’s fastest accountant targets summer of success
  • 16 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Eugene Amo-Dadzie shares his career story at the New Members’ Ceremony, highlighting the diversity and dynamism of the profession.
How ESG is shaking up accountants’ careers
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Environmental, social and governance is opening up a host of new career opportunities for accountants. But how should you best develop the new skill-sets now being demanded of you?
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Student societies: building communities
  • 01 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
As Chair of London’s student society, Sunny Yang is helping to create a modern, inclusive community. He tells us about some of the latest initiatives.
Broader career paths attract accountancy talent
  • 01 Nov 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
With the lure of partner status waning, firms need to think more creatively about recognising individuals with other skills that they rely on for success – particularly if they want to retain them for the long run.
Honing essential skills to inspire and lead teams
  • 26 Oct 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
How do you ensure that people within your organisation have the chance to think about their own career development and role within the business, and how this could evolve?
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My ACA Journey: meet Ashwini Poopalasingham
  • 25 Oct 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
We meet Ashwini for coffee to discuss the challenges and rewards of the ACA qualification, strategies for maintaining a work-life balance, and future career goals.
Stop trying to fix women – start fixing the system
  • 17 Aug 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Rather than seeing typically female traits as barriers to career progression, redesign the system, says diversity, equity and inclusion leader Joe Consedine – majority over-represented groups must make the shift, not the women themselves.
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10 things you didn’t know about ICAEW
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
When you qualify as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, you become part of a very special heritage. We explore what being a member of the Institute means.
Successful L&D strategies consider CPD and business goals
  • 12 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
A learning and development strategy built around continuing professional development and an understanding of the organisation’s long-term objectives is the cornerstone of a successful business. We offer tips on the best way to approach it.
Ethics CPD: are you on track?
  • 03 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Every ICAEW member must address ethics as part of their professional development each year. Start our free, online course today to make sure you meet your requirements.
ICAEW reveals details of new CPD requirements
  • 15 May 2023
Members and firms can begin preparing for changes to their professional development obligations, after ICAEW published detailed guidance on the revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations which come into effect in November.
The power of LinkedIn to progress your career
  • 20 Apr 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Want to stand out from the crowd? Personal branding expert Damilola Badmus offers tips on using LinkedIn to develop your personal brand.
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What’s it like to… change career to accountancy
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Accountancy and psychology may feel like opposite ends of the career spectrum, but Abigail Hitchins has found some common ground – and plenty of transferable skills.
Getting your 2023 career resolutions back on track
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
With one in five people pledging to pursue career goals and ambitions in their New Year Resolutions, we’ve asked career experts for their advice on achieving these in 2023.
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View from the top: Michael Roberts
  • 02 Feb 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Michael Roberts is CEO of 2020 Innovation, a training and support provider for accountancy firms. He tells us how he reached his career goal – owning and running his own business.
What’s your office personality?
  • 12 Jan 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Always fall into the same career ruts? Kickstart your accountancy career with New Year’s resolutions from careers coaches at Henley Business School.
Cost-of-living crisis prompts accountants’ job concerns
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
One in five chartered accountants says cost-of-living crisis is hindering career progression, with concerns about job losses also rife, research finds.
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Spotlight on: Robin Vela
  • 03 Oct 2022
Robin holds various interests in the industrials, property, renewable energy and logistics sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa. He is the Founder and Chair of Lonsa Group Limited, Chair of Lonsa Everite, Deputy Chair of Swartland Investments and Chair of Firstmile Properties. Robin (a fellow of the Chartered Securities Institute in England & Wales) is a professionally qualified and experienced investment banker and in 2016 was appointed to the ICAEW Member’s Advisory Board for Africa. Robin is also a member of the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa, the past patron for the African Institu...
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Spotlight on: Ololade Adesanya
  • 03 Oct 2022
Ololade Adesanya is a Director at Deloitte with over 14 years’ experience working with firms in the financial services industry, providing advisory and assurance services around governance, risk and controls. She is also the current President of the ICAEW West of England.
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