Generative AI guide
The guide acts as an introduction to generative AI and provides information on topics such as how to get started, opportunities and possibilities, governance, and ethics.
Keep up-to-date with tech issues and developments, including artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, big data, and cyber security.
Clients and prospective employers may soon be learning about you through GenAI tools. Here’s how to ensure that your content will be read well by both machines and humans.
Do you want a high-level understanding of sustainability reporting requirements but don’t know where to start? This article explains how you can find verifiable CPD resources to bring you up to speed.
ICAEW is rolling out a new way to add attendance to our webinars and events on your CPD record, making it easier and simpler to verify your continuing professional development (CPD).
Generative AI is transforming many industries, including accountancy, but are you keeping up? These free CPD-verifiable articles will introduce you to the basics of generative AI, ways it can support you in your role and the pitfalls to watch out for.
AI and machine learning were part of the financial sector landscape long before many other sectors caught on. But what do their use mean for financial stability?
The Tax Faculty welcomes feedback on its updated content on Making Tax Digital (MTD).
Accountants today rely on software like Oracle, Sage, Excel, and many other technologies to store important data and help generate financial statements and insights. This article provides a high-level overview of different data infrastructure used in accounting and how these fit into contemporary technology such as PowerBI, PowerPivot, Excel, APIs.
Clients and prospective employers may soon be learning about you through GenAI tools. Here’s how to ensure that your content will be read well by both machines and humans.
Do you want a high-level understanding of sustainability reporting requirements but don’t know where to start? This article explains how you can find verifiable CPD resources to bring you up to speed.
ICAEW is rolling out a new way to add attendance to our webinars and events on your CPD record, making it easier and simpler to verify your continuing professional development (CPD).
This guide from the ICAEW sets out the key features of blockchain, and the challenges it must face to reach widespread adoption. It includes case studies of real-life applications, as well as examining its impact on accountancy.
Blockchain technologies have the potential to disrupt the work of finance teams – particularly those focused on transactional tasks – by offering a system of universal entry bookkeeping, removing the need for independent verification. Here ICAEW’s Tech Faculty and Deloitte outline the basics of this complex and developing technology.
A consultation examines the assessment case for a central bank digital currency, which could have profound implications for consumers, businesses, banks and payment providers within the UK.
With more and more people dipping their toe into the world of crypto, accountants increasingly need to become experts in crypto tax compliance and financial planning. Daniel Howitt looks at how.
Chief internal auditors are worried that AI is likely to fuel a surge in cyber, fraud and economic crime, according to a new poll.
Our latest round-up of cyber news features high-profile data hacks, insights into AI-enabled cyber security and the impact of heightened cyber risk ahead of the general election.
The supply chain is highlighted as the new frontier for cybercrime. Although activity can be outsourced, responsibility and accountability cannot, experts warn.
In last month’s ‘Excel Tips and Tricks live – your questions answered’ webinar, David Benaim and Ian Pay tackled Excel questions and queries covering best practices when using Power Query, the use of formulas such as XLOOKUP, and a range of techniques for data handling and analysis in Excel. In this article, David returns to answer some of the unanswered questions from the webinar.
Fresh analysis suggests AI skills could help to bridge the UK productivity gap with other nations.
The EU is set to open its AI Office following the application of its recent world-first comprehensive law on Artificial Intelligence.
The iEARTHS project is a causal AI system designed to tackle modern slavery. David Wray, ICAEW member and one of its creators, explains the considerations that went into its development.
It’s a hot topic in finance right now. Rob Binns, CFO at Access Group, discusses why accountants should embrace, not fear, the acceleration of digital transformation.
Finance transformation will be one of the most in-demand skills over the next 10 years, says career coach for financial professionals, Oliver Deacon.
The pandemic has ushered in a new model of working, with many businesses considering adopting more flexibility in the longer term. That’s certainly the case for the Oil and Gas Authority, which is set to adopt a hybrid working method for its post-pandemic way of working.
Hello and welcome back to Excel Tips and Tricks! This week, we have a Developer level post exploring how to get started with creating a basic custom ribbon in your workbook using VBA.
In last month’s ‘Excel Tips and Tricks live – your questions answered’ webinar, David Benaim and Ian Pay tackled Excel questions and queries covering best practices when using Power Query, the use of formulas such as XLOOKUP, and a range of techniques for data handling and analysis in Excel. In this article, David returns to answer some of the unanswered questions from the webinar.
A new report page available in the article archive portal helps users of the new on-demand Excel course series to discover additional content on relevant topics.
In this article, Mark Proctor takes us deep into the world of TRUE and FALSE to demonstrate creative ways of using the FILTER function.
ICAEW has brought together these resources to help you understand how digital technologies are transforming economies and workplaces. Learn what it means for businesses and accountancy practices.
ICAEW has brought together these resources to help you understand artificial intelligence and what it means for finance functions. Here you'll find support on identifying how AI can benefit your organisation and how it to start implementing the technology.
ICAEW has brought together these resources to help you understand Robotic Process Automation (RPA), what it means for your organisation and how it to start implementing the technology.
Digital technologies are set to have a revolutionary impact on the work of accountants, both in business and in practice. ICAEW has gathered together these resources to ensure its members understand how finance functions will change, the skills that will be needed and the role you will play.
Office Scripts are a new scripting language for automating Excel. In this article, Mark Proctor explores how Office Scripts differ to VBA and what we can or cannot do with each.
Article looks at how an increase in computing power can be balanced with the need for greater energy efficiency.
The Budget contained tax announcements designed to support business growth. We assess how these measures were received and their drawbacks.
Our chart this week illustrates how home broadband capabilities have been improving in recent years, although still far short of ambitions to provide ultrafast speeds to most households across the UK.
In our first post-pandemic research focused on mid-tier practice technology, we’ve seen some substantial changes in the landscape. Responses have given us cause to be optimistic, but also highlight challenges in the digital transformation journey. Addressing these challenges presents opportunities for firms, software providers and ICAEW.
Digitalisation is transforming how tax is reported and paid, with significant innovation and investment occurring in countries of all kinds. There is no single pathway to digitalisation, as our case studies show, but there is something to be learned from all of them.
Drawing on real-life experiences, this collaborative thought leadership report by ICAEW and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) considers how finance functions can harness automation to deliver greater value to business and the skills needed by accountants in the future.
As accountants increasingly innovate with data, AI and other technologies, is the profession’s ethics code fit for purpose in this new world?
Based on the materials created by ICAEW’s Tech Faculty, these resources became available to the wider ICAEW membership in January 2022.
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Practical advice, guidance and case studies written for faculty members working in practice. Aimed at helping you benefit from the capabilities and navigate the risks arising from new technology
Providing updates on the latest technology issues affecting the accountancy profession. They aim to bring practical tips and expert insights on a range of topics, setting you up for any action you'll need to take.
Technology is at the heart of all organisations today. The pace of change is growing ever faster. In the coming years, the finance profession will be profoundly altered by new and evolving technologies.