Accountancy Insights
Inside the Industrial Strategy and navigating VAT reform
- Podcast
- ICAEW Insights
In this episode, we discuss the government’s new Industrial Strategy and, in particular, its sector plan for professional and business services.
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AI: should it replace junior roles?
- Article
- 17 Jul 2025
ICAEW polled members on LinkedIn to get an idea of attitudes around the use of artificial intelligence to complete tasks usually taken on by junior members of staff.
Scale-up forecasting amid uncertainty
- Article
- 17 Jul 2025
How to grow: agile forecasting is a strategic imperative for growing businesses and how members can help clients navigate uncertainty with confidence.
Government to address regulatory burden and boost financial services
- Article
- 16 Jul 2025
The government has outlined its plans to create a “proportionate, predictable and internationally competitive” regulatory environment that will ensure the UK’s financial services sector can deliver growth.
Tax news in brief 15 July 2025
- Article
- 15 Jul 2025
Highlights from the broader tax news for the week ending 15 July 2025, including: new guidance on employment-related security reporting and international tax news.
How to make the employment allowance work for you
- Article
- 15 Jul 2025
ICAEW’s Tax Faculty explains how the employment allowance can reduce an employer’s liability to national insurance contributions (NIC) by up to £10,500 for 2025/26.
How to fix VAT: barriers to simplification
- Article
- 10 Jul 2025
Regardless of whether you believe fixing VAT is best done by tinkering around the edges of the existing system or the nuclear option of a full-blown overhaul, the challenges surrounding changes should not be underestimated.
A listing of one-off Insights specials that focus on a particular subject, interviewing the key people, identifying developing trends and examining the underlying issues.
How to fix VAT
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ICAEW explores the challenges and opportunities offered in reimagining VAT and it's application. Read about the history of VAT, the lessons that can be learned from outside the UK and the potential of digitalisation.
Global Ethics Day
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ICAEW celebrates Global Ethics Day each year. The 2024 theme is "Ethics empowered: using the power of ethics to build a better world”, and ICAEW is examining the vital role ethics must play in the development of technology.
Local government finance: skills for the future
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Improving financial skills at local authorities is critical in balancing the books and delivering value for citizens. As backstop dates for audited accounts come into force, ICAEW explores how local authorities can strengthen their approach to financial management.
Accounting Intelligence
ICAEW has created a range of resources to support members in business and practice build their understanding of AI. There are video masterclasses, as well as features discussing opportunities, challenges, limitations, risk management and ethics.
Videos
AI masterclass on better audit sampling
- Video
- 29 Oct 2024
Konrad Bukowski-Kruszyna ACA, Head of Audit Data Analytics, RSM UK outlines how generative AI can help ensure that audit sampling is being handled correctly.
What is VAT?
- Video
- 19 Nov 2024
Value added tax is a vital tool for raising revenue to fund education, healthcare and more. We explain how it works and how it could be improved.
AI masterclass on reviewing company controls
- Video
- 30 Oct 2024
Jenny Blewett FCA, Head of Finance at Costello Medical talks about how she used generative AI to help check her firm’s banking controls when she was new in post.
Private equity: is it here to stay?
- Video
- 22 May 2024
Matt Meadows, Managing Partner, Moore Kingston Smith, and Caroline Monk, Executive Partner, Beever and Struthers, on their views of private equity on the accountancy sector.
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Appraising Starmer’s Labour
- Podcast
- 15 Jul 2025
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss the hits and misses of the Labour government’s first year in power.
Inside the Industrial Strategy and navigating VAT reform
- Podcast
- 08 Jul 2025
In this episode, we discuss the government’s new Industrial Strategy and, in particular, its sector plan for professional and business services.
Investment risk: lessons from Russia
- Podcast
- 20 Jun 2025
In this episode of Behind the Numbers, we discuss how businesses can best navigate geopolitical risk.
Chart of the week: Balance of payments
- Article
- 11 Jul 2025
Our chart this week takes a look at the UK’s balance of payments in the year to 31 March 2025 and wonders what the future has in store.
Chart of the week: Energy price cap
- Article
- 04 Jul 2025
Our chart this week looks at the domestic energy price cap since its peak in the first quarter of 2023.
Chart of the week: Global GDP
- Article
- 27 Jun 2025
Our chart this week looks at the relationship between population and GDP around the world.
Insights by topic
Insights index
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This page provides an entry point to the articles that have formed the daily, monthly and weekly member emails, arranged by section and month. It also contains an index of themed Insights specials and the Quarterly magazine.
Climate hub
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Climate change is a crucial issue for the accounting profession. Are you professionally ready to mitigate the risk and maximise the opportunity of climate change? Find inspiration, information and practical resources to support the goals set out in the Paris Agreement and in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Diversity and Inclusion
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ICAEW is committed to Diversity and Inclusion. In this hub we bring together timely D&I resources on the protected characteristics of the Equality Act, along with our latest insights into diversity in the profession.
EU and international trade
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A range of resources on the implications of the UK leaving the EU on 31 December 2020.
Regulatory News
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A round-up of regulatory and conduct updates and communications from the ICAEW Professional Standards Department.
Sponsored content
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Hear what our partners are saying on topical issues impacting the accountancy profession.