In February, the Charities Bill received Royal Assent and passed into law as the Charities Act 2022. The recommendations from the Law Commission formed the basis for the provisions of the new legislation and the Act is designed to give trustees more flexibility to manage charities effectively. They will not have a big impact on charities’ daily operations but simplify certain areas of regulation.

The war in Ukraine is deeply distressing and makes many of us feel helpless. Millions of people will be displaced because of the crisis and charities are playing an important role to get help to the people who need it.

While most charity boards are aiming to incorporate more service user perspectives in their governance structures, many charitable membership societies are relying on member perspectives alone. In this opinion piece, Baden-Fuller, Lawrey and Palmer explain why having independent trustees is a key element of good governance and adds depth to the skillset of the boards governing charitable professional membership societies.

Following the 2021 recruitment round, which saw Martin Thomas appointed as Charity Commission Chair in December only to resign days later, the charity sector is concerned about the political independence of the new preferred candidate.

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.

Data protection and privacy are matters of professional concern to accountants in practice, industry or commerce.

This resource centre provides a focal point for ICAEW members looking for support in managing cyber risks.

ICAEW Data Analytics Certificate programme will help you combine your commercial acumen and business knowledge with data analytics expertise.

I have been working on a project recently for which I wanted to include a set of refreshable Excel Tables in a control worksheet to highlight exceptions in the underlying data. Generally, the best way to avoid Tables clashing with each other as they expand and contract is to keep them on their own, separate, worksheets. In this case, I wanted to create a single workbook that would highlight potential errors at a glance, and the Tables concerned were only likely to generate a few rows each. The following examples demonstrate some of the considerations involved.