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Common breaches: avoiding costly mistakes
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- 01 Aug 2024
ICAEW’s Conduct Department regularly investigates cases where members and firms are failing to meet basic requirements, such as holding a Practising Certificate, compliant professional indemnity insurance and an anti-money laundering supervisor. Claire Arrowsmith, Senior Manager, Conduct, for the Professional Standards Department, highlights how these mistakes are often linked and offers some advice on how to avoid them.
Modern slavery signs that accountants are well placed to spot
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- 30 Jul 2024
Businesses are increasingly raising concerns of modern slavery and recognising risks in their supply chains. Which red flags must accountants be particularly alert to?
Customer due diligence in practice webinar: Q&A
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- 23 Jul 2024
During ICAEW’s recent anti-money laundering (AML) webinar on customer due diligence (CDD) in practice, viewers highlighted a range of issues. We pick out some common themes, and ICAEW’s AML team provides responses to key questions.
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Databases, Data Warehouses and Data Lakes for Accountants
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- 17 Jul 2024
Accountants today rely on software like Oracle, Sage, Excel, and many other technologies to store important data and help generate financial statements and insights. This article provides a high-level overview of different data infrastructure used in accounting and how these fit into contemporary technology such as PowerBI, PowerPivot, Excel, APIs.
The role of ethics within AI to combat modern slavery
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- 05 Jul 2024
We complete our iEARTHS miniseries journey through an ethical lens. The ethical risks and challenges are real and require thoughtful reflection to protect what really matters: vulnerable individuals.
Accountants in business ‘must lead’ anti-corruption action
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- 03 Jul 2024
ICAEW joins forces with the International Federation of Accountants and the Basel Institute to offer anti-corruption guidance for accountants.
Companies House: proposed ID verification explained
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- 01 Jul 2024
Proposed amendments to the Companies Act 2006 introduce stringent identity verification for those setting up, running or controlling companies, in a bid to stamp out money laundering via fake identities.
AI ‘will turbocharge cybercrime and fraud’
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- 26 Jun 2024
Chief internal auditors are worried that AI is likely to fuel a surge in cyber, fraud and economic crime, according to a new poll.
IoD code of conduct for directors needs teeth, ICAEW warns
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- 26 Jun 2024
ICAEW expresses concerns about the effectiveness of a voluntary code with no enforcement mechanism or register of signatories.
Diving deeper into the data for combating modern slavery
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- 26 Jun 2024
The challenges around understanding what the data does or doesn’t tell us is a major factor in making AI work effectively. In the latest in his series, David Wray looks at getting data right and how causal AI might aid in offering decision-useful options.
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