Fraud is more common than people realise. Businesses of all sizes need to be alive to the signs and proactively manage the risks. ICAEW’s Laura Hough outlines what to look out for and actions to take.

Significant legislative changes to UK employment rights are set to start taking effect with gradual implementation between 2026 and 2027.

Having confidence in your own answers and knowing how to delegate well to your team are two of the biggest learnings from Katie Wade’s earliest days as CFO.

Business confidence remains low in the first month of 2026, with businesses expressing a number of economic concerns.

The first global standard for natural capital accounting recognises the role that nature plays in sustaining business value. Learn more about ISO 14054 and its application.

At the start of 2026, ICAEW has been working with policymakers to find solutions to the potential impact of the Finance Bill on tax advisers, sharing the latest results of the business confidence monitor and informing debate on the Pension Schemes Bill.

Welsh business confidence fell into negative territory in the fourth quarter of 2025, following the UK-wide slump in growth and confidence.

Mirroring the rest of the country, business confidence in Scotland has dropped to its lowest level since 2022, with ongoing uncertainty and low economic growth, a survey of business leaders has found.

Learn essential modern Excel functions with MVP David: dynamic ranges, smarter lookups, text, date and numeric tricks, powerful array formulas, and AI-assisted formula creation to boost productivity in the 2020s.

In this webinar, we will explore the proposed safeguarding rules and what they will mean in practice for auditors and firms.

This practical workshop in the Critical Skills series helps Chartered Accountants strengthen their people management skills by improving delegation, feedback, performance management, and confidence in handling challenging conversations.

This workshop from the Women in Finance Community focuses on the mindset and leadership skills you can deploy to not only cope with the pressures of your role but also to thrive in all types of situations.

Gain insights on everything from market research and client discovery to trade fairs, partnerships, and international setup.

This webinar will cover a practical introduction to Dynamic Arrays in Excel and how dynamic arrays address the common problems faced when using traditional Excel formulas in financial modelling.

Neil Cutting explores different perspectives to consider when utilising technology and AI to drive efficiency and effectiveness improvements to the finance team.

This workshop identifies and addresses the issues and challenges facing accountants in constructing, implementing and managing financial forecasts in an environment which is uncertain with ever increasing event risks. It incorporates numerous practical models using Excel.

A practical, realistic, hands-on and immense learning opportunity of all you need to know to become the CFO

Our focused report on retail will detail the vast changes that have been undertaken in this industry since the onset of Covid, and how you can adapt to get to the top

Business resilience is a skill not easily learned or acquired, but so vital to the survival and overall success of your business. Use your guide to ensure you have all the right tools in your armoury to succeed in such uncertain times.

Collaboration has been a trendy buzz word in business lexicon for some time now, but, as the pandemic has done with many other ‘nice-to have’ skills, it has now become absolutely necessary to master. With your colleagues, business partners, suppliers and all other stakeholders more than likely working from home, and maybe even across different locations and time zones, effective collaboration is essential

This special report explores how to be more commercial to add value and generate profit for your firm.

This month’s special report focuses on solving problems of all shapes and sizes in the workplace. Whatever your position in the hierarchy, there are practical hints and tips included to make your day-to-day work easier and more efficient.

Practical advice for those considering business partnering initiatives and those looking to improve their approach.

How does your finance function compare and how do you deal with the inherent tensions we highlight?

Finance’s role in the organisation considers the challenges of designing successful organisations. The document consists of two articles previously published in Finance and Management, the ICAEW’s Finance and Management Faculty Magazine. It forms part of our exploration of the role of the finance function, the first theme for the faculty’s thought leadership programme. The other two themes are managing the future and non-financial measures.

Doing ‘Open Innovation’ means, quite simply, being open to the idea of working in new ways, with new partners or new relationships within your existing supply chain, to create ideas and then bring them through to market.

In this guide we explore the nature of platform businesses, the importance of trust in their successes, and how trust is generated and maintained.

It is recognised that an effective culture can reduce risk and improve performance of an organisation, and that the success or failure of the culture is greatly influenced by its leaders. This guide, written by Jenny Jones, explores different leadership styles and the impact they can have on organisational culture.

The term ecosystem is regularly bandied about in business conversations. But what does it mean and is it a useful metaphor for improving business performance?

This report on risk management will provide some high-level guidance by answering the following questions. What is risk management? What should the objective of risk management be and how do we know when we achieve it? And finally, how can it be implemented?

This practical guide explains the off-payrolling rules as they apply to medium and large businesses.

A guide on what organisations need to do to design and embed a framework to deliver operational resilience. The first of two papers on operational resilience for internal audit teams.

In this second paper on operational resilience, we will look at how to develop the audit approach. We include recommendations of areas internal audit should focus on and other questions that should be considered.

This guide, written by Jenny Jones, explains the importance of organisational culture and why businesses must get it right. It considers the benefits of a new metrics-based approach to measuring culture, and how the data gathered can support the organisation as it evolves.

The former monthly magazine of the Business and Management Faculty. It contained a wide range of news, views and articles for business finance professionals. The last edition was published in December 2021.

Magazine of ICAEW's Finance & Management Faculty, published between 2000 and 2017.

Management Quarterly was produced in association with Cranfield School of Management from 1998 to 2003.

Manager Update was produced in association with Henley Management College from 1997 to 2008.