Fraser Duckworth
20-08-2020
According to official data, small businesses with fewer than 50 employees are the largest and most potential portion of UK economic activity. Other advanced industrial countries are likely to have a similar proportion. It is also known that such businesses experience a high closure rate after major incidents whether the cause be floods or pandemics.
Fraser Duckworth
06-08-2020
As a profession, this is our moment to step up. The health crisis caused by COVID-19 continues, but our economic crisis is only starting to be felt. This is the time when businesses need support and guidance to channel the oxygen of cash and navigate the changes we’re all facing.
Fraser Duckworth
04-09-2020
How can your organisation balance insight, efficiency and governance? In partnership with Tableau, we hear from Gary Collins, Director of Finance Systems how Carnival UK have revolutionised their commercial analytics, moving away from producing static .pdf outputs to enabling Self Service Analytics for end users.
MindBridge
09-02-2022
Businesses are coming to rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to inform critical decision-making. Increasingly, AI is finding its place throughout organizations, from customer retention to marketing and finance. Assurance and audit are no exception to the benefits of artificial intelligence. As the value of next gen technologies become more transparent, firms will look to help bolster their staff with modern tools for more efficient and timely engagement.
Franki Hackett
12-01-2022
We’ve been talking about data ingestion in audit for several years and have come face to face with the significant problems it poses. But getting to grips with the realities of the problem, and advances in AI, are beginning to suggest the problem has nearly been solved.
07-12-2021
Data analytics allows firms to harness data, both internal and external, to provide faster, deeper analysis for better decision-making. These tools offer accountants the ability to track client performance at a more granular level and identify ways to build in efficiencies.
Resilience First
27-07-2021
A whitepaper that examines how technology can help achieve carbon net zero.
ICAEW Insights
14-05-2021
Data offers huge business opportunities and boards, funders and creditors increasingly expect data analysis to underpin decisions, but financial controllers must grasp the challenges surrounding data integrity, trust in data and ethics to capitalise on its potential, an expert is warning.
Andy Kirk
22-04-2021
How to organise your thinking when undertaking EDA.
Inflo
22-04-2021
From data wrangling to communication back to business, the data analytics community like others are facing key challenges, even more so in the current climate. In this piece, we explore the concept of data storytelling, the importance of it as data becomes more prevalent and the positive impact upon the data analytics.
Mohit Diswani
14-05-2020
Europe’s top 1000 non-financial companies have €353 billion in accounts receivable outstanding at any given point in time (Source: FactSet). That amount is roughly the same as Denmark’s GDP! The ability to carefully manage working capital is critical during a crisis like COVID-19, when cash - that most liquid of assets - is king.
Richard Payne
26-11-2019
By embedding sensors into objects of all kinds, businesses are increasingly able to generate data on almost any aspect of their assets and operations. But what will this huge influx of data mean for accountants?
Andy Kirk
07-11-2019
In this series I am looking at different contextual, editorial, analytical, or design challenges encountered when working on data visualisation tasks. Each will be framed around a specific 'everyday' challenge with five possible methods, ideas or observations presented. Focusing on just five is deliberately arbitrary and non-exhaustive: just enough to provide some different ideas but not enough to pretend to be definitive.