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Resources covering data analytics and big data, data handling, data protection and GDPR, and data presentation.

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SMEs must wise up to cyber security risks
the 21st-century evolution of cyber security
Iain Murray, Director of Public Financial Management, CIPFA
In the nick of time: EU grants UK data protection adequacy decision
Data Protection and Privacy

Data protection and privacy

All organisations that collect, store or process personal information on living and identifiable people must comply with the Data Protection Act 2018. Additional resources can be found on the GDPR (now the Data Protection Act 2018 in the UK).
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Data Analytics Community

Data Analytics Community

As data analytics plays an increasingly pivotal role in supporting audit, assurance and business decision-making, this ICAEW community will help finance professionals develop the advanced data analytics and visualisation skills needed to succeed in this insight-driven era.
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Leading data-led decision making in local government

Finance professionals are pivotal in ensuring local authority decisions on service delivery are grounded in robust data analysis. CIPFA’s Iain Murray outlines the role of finance teams in ensuring data-led decision-making and the skills required for success.
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In the nick of time: EU grants UK data protection adequacy decision

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.
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Data analytics

Get advanced data analysis, from number crunching and spreadsheets to decision-support and strategy, including access to useful and practical Excel guidance. Plus, find out how big data is used and can benefit the accountancy profession.


Five in-demand skills for accountants in 2025
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  • 14 Feb 2025
We speak to recruitment experts to reveal the key skills and attributes accountants need to stand out in a competitive job market.
ICAEW Pakistan The impact of AI on the accountancy profession
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  • 11 Feb 2025
Expert QA capture maintain and handle quality data
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  • 31 Jan 2025
I built my first AI Agent – using AI
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  • 29 Jan 2025
Dudley Gould, ICAEW member and VP of Business Development at Circit, explains how he utilised ChatGPT to build an AI agent that can standardise client data.
Improve your digital skills with ICAEW
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  • 08 Jan 2025
Enhance your technology skills for free via online courses available to ICAEW CFAB and ACA students from ICAEW and partner organisations.
Exclusive Unpicking the three lines
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  • 02 Jan 2025
What does Three Lines mean to you? I would imagine it’s a concept that most who work within, or are involved with, internal audit understand well.
9 10 September 2025 virtual classroom Data visualisation influential analysis
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  • 30 Dec 2024
20 21 May 2025 virtual classroom Data visualisation influential analysis
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  • 30 Dec 2024
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Data protection and privacy

Cyber round-up: March 2024
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  • 27 Mar 2024
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
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  • 05 Mar 2024
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.
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Join the Excel Community

Do you use Excel in your organisation? Are you using it to its maximum potential? Develop your skills and minimise spreadsheet risk with our Excel resources. Membership is free to ICAEW members. Non-ICAEW members are also welcome to join. 

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Excel community

The Excel Community provides a 'one-stop shop' for accountants who want to use Excel.
Exclusive Bringing financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation – comparing data sets
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  • 14 Feb 2025
This article is part of a series that supports the lunch and learn webinars on how to bring financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation. This third article will explore how to compare two data sets using a Waterfall Chart in Excel.
Exclusive Excel, what’s occurrin’ 3 – incomplete ranges
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  • 07 Feb 2025
This series looks at some of the things that can go wrong in an Excel spreadsheet and at what we can do to avoid or resolve the issue. We start with the basics of making sure our numbers add up. Having looked at the use of the ROUND() function and the use of the potentially disastrous Precision as Displayed option, this time we investigate one of the most common causes for errors in Excel spreadsheets – references to ranges that omit vital cells.
Excel Community round up - January 2025
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  • 03 Feb 2025
Here are all the new Excel blogs and webinars from the Excel Community in January 2025.
Exclusive Going Deep with REDUCE
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  • 27 Jan 2025
In this article, Mark Proctor explores the REDUCE function in Excel and dives into its power for achieving advanced calculations.
Exclusive Excel, what’s occurrin’ 2 – Precision as displayed
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  • 24 Jan 2025
This series looks at some of the things that can go wrong in an Excel spreadsheet and at what we can do to avoid or resolve the issue. We start with the basics of making sure our numbers add up. Having looked at the use of the ROUND() function in part 2, this time we move on to a far simpler and easier method with only one drawback, it could destroy the accuracy of your spreadsheet.
Exclusive Bringing financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation - visualising monthly results
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  • 22 Jan 2025
This article is part of a series that supports the lunch and learn webinars on how to bring financial reports alive in Excel with visualisation. This second article will explore how to visualise monthly results with a range of charts and chart features in Excel.
Exclusive Excel, what’s occurrin’ – it doesn’t add up
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  • 20 Jan 2025
This series looks at some of the things that can go wrong in an Excel spreadsheet and at what we can do to avoid or resolve the issue. We start with the basics of making sure our numbers add up.
100 new Excel features from the first half of the 2020s
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  • 13 Jan 2025
We’re halfway through the decade and Excel has released so many features that its hard to keep track, so here is a whistle stop tour with over 100 features. Items marked with * are released on the current channel but not all channels, so these items may not be available to all now but should be by July 2025. Click File > Account to see which channel you are on.
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