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CFO most diverse C-suite role amid patchy progress
- Mar 2024
- ICAEW Insights
White men still hold three-quarters of chair, CEO or CFO roles across FTSE 350 and more than half of board and executive committee positions, study finds.
An interview with a Women in Leadership graduate
- Feb 2024
ICAEW’s WiL leadership programme is for women working across practice, industry and public sectors in senior management, partner or board roles. In this interview, Emma Read, Group Accounting at PD Ports, shared her account on why she enrolled on WiL.
Board experience trumps diversity
- Nov 2023
- ICAEW Insights
Boards are prioritising plc experience in new director appointments over diversity, new research shows.
CORPORATE FINANCE FACULTY
Jon Moulton: The new rules for board games
- Mar 2023
- Jon Moulton
There’s no simple formula for putting together the right board of directors. If only there was, says Jon Moulton.
Parker Review sets new goals to boost DE&I progress
- Mar 2023
- ICAEW Insights
FTSE companies have made significant strides with ethnic diversity on boards, according to the Parker Review – but deeper details show there’s still a long way to go.
UK financial boards increase diversity faster than EU
- Jan 2023
- ICAEW Insights
The UK is leading Europe in increasing both female representation and women leading sustainability initiatives at board level in financial services companies, analysis shows.
Talk of progress on ethnic board representation ‘premature’
- Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Targets set out by Parker Review for ethnic minority representation on boards risk being a tick-box exercise, experts warn.
EU quotas loom for gender diversity on boards
- Jul 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Although the pending legislation is welcome, a mixed picture on female board representation across the EU means the new ruling will have its work cut out.
Women in leadership
- Mar 2022
- ICAEW Insights
Female representation at board level across the UK’s largest companies is on the up, but women are still the exception rather than the rule when it comes to bagging executive roles such as the CFO.
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Diverse boards lead to success
- Dec 2021
- Yetunde Hofmann
- Business and Management
Why are black women largely absent?
Coutts banks on boardroom diversity for future prosperity
- Nov 2021
- ICAEW Insights
Widely known as bankers to the Queen, Coutts bank is working to future-proof its business and ensure a pipeline of diversity through its Boardroom2030 project.
CORPORATE FINANCE FACULTY
Diversity in the boardroom
- Sep 2021
- Jon Moulton
- Corporate Financier
The FRC’s report on Board Diversity and Effectiveness in FTSE 350 Companies tries hard to read the numbers, but John Moulton concludes that diversity will not necessarily improve the bottom line
FRC report boosts case for diverse board
- Aug 2021
- ICAEW Insights
The case for diverse boards was given further clout after new research published by the FRC supported the thesis that it leads to better corporate culture and performance as well as benefiting businesses from a social justice perspective.
Strengthening the accountancy profession through diversity
- Jul 2021
- ICAEW Insights
The findings of a new FRC study published earlier this month have added further clout to the case for board diversity, arguing that it leads to better corporate culture and performance as well as benefiting businesses from a social justice perspective.
An interview with a WiL graduate
- Mar 2021
ICAEW's Women in Leadership (WiL) programme is designed to help women in senior management, partner or board roles refine and craft their authentic leadership style. In this interview, Dianna MacDuff, Head of Business Development at British Sugar shares why she enrolled on WiL.
Women on UK boards up by 50% but further progress needed
- Mar 2021
- ICAEW Insights
8 March 2021: More than a third of FTSE 350 board positions are now held by women, an increase of 50% over the past five years. However, the numbers disguise a mixed picture.
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Women’s journey to the board as finance professionals
- Dec 2020
- ICAEW Insights
In November 2020, ICAEW collaborated with The British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong to co-host a webinar with over a hundred attendees
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Improving employee engagement
- Dec 2020
- Elizabeth Richards
- Business and Management
An Employee Director can make the difference
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Getting new faces into the boardroom
- Oct 2020
- David Levenson
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
David Levenson of Coaching Futures asks whether we need to think differently about the composition of boards and aim to attract younger board members.
From pioneers to parity: 100 years of women in ICAEW
- Mar 2020
- Rachel Willcox
Any celebration of how far women have come needs to recognise how far we have to go. Real change is about new ways of thinking rather than new faces, says Rachel Willcox.
Genuine engagement needed to tackle lack of ethnic diversity at board level
- Feb 2020
- ICAEW Insights
A new report has called on listed companies to tackle a lack of ethnic diversity in the boardroom through a combination of genuine engagement, targeted metrics and awareness training. But does this go far enough, fast enough? Rachel Willcox reports.
Gender imbalance: bridging the boardroom gap
- Feb 2020
5 February 2020: while last year saw a record number of women on FTSE 350 boards, closing the gender pay gap is not a straightforward task. What can businesses do to address gender imbalances and why does it make good business sense to do so?
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE COMMUNITY
Seven reasons why a board role can boost your career
- Oct 2019
- Julia Root-Gutteridge
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
There is a lot of focus on how to get non-executive director (NED) positions on corporate boards and the best way to build a portfolio career – but many professionals don’t realise the value of laying the groundwork for success at this level much earlier in their careers.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The UK Corporate Governance Code
- Jul 2018
- Elizabeth Richards
The revised code focuses on the crucial themes of stakeholder engagement, culture, diversity and remuneration.
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PRA consults on SIMR amendments
- Jun 2017
- Financial Services Faculty
Large insurers could be required to have policies in place to promote board diversity under plans put forward by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).
Tales from the frontline
- Nov 2016
- Ellie Clayton
- Economia
KPMG vice chair Melanie Richards on how firms can ensure everyone is represented
Getting women on boards
- Mar 2015
- Helen Roxburgh
- Economia
Helen Roxburgh looks at its merits, and which countries are doing it best
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Getting the best people for the job
- Oct 2009
- PDF (45kb)
- Colin Coulson-Thomas
- Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas FCA, author of the books Developing Directors and Winning Companies; Winning People, argues that companies should choose from a wider field of candidates when appointing directors.
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