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Risk and materiality
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Making information connections for sustainable value creation
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AI monitor: Exploring the trends, innovations and challenges of artificial intelligence
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2025 Global Economic Outlook: A highly uncertain world
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4 2024
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Risk cultures in healthcare: The role of accountancy
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Public Trust in Tax: global tax perspectives revisited
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A productive approach: Finance professionals improving productivity in the public sector
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Sustainability reporting: Enhancing transparency and accountability
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Weathering the storm: Building resilience against climate disruptions
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3 2024
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Empowering business: navigating nature-related reporting
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The new era of ethical challenges for professional accountants
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Audit and technology playbook: A practitioner’s guide
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Smart alliance: driving technology and innovation in accounting
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Living wage: Ensuring fair and sustainable wages for all
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Policy and taxation: Insights and trends in global tax policy
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Finance evolution: Embracing the future of finance and technology
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Fintech as a catalyst for growth: Lessons from India
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Global economic conditions survey Q2 2024: Insights and trends
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Accountants at the heart of SME resilience and growth
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Bribery and corruption – The hidden social evil on your doorstep
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PFM Performance in Africa
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Accounting for a better world: your agenda for action
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Skills development: Policies for enhancing the employer ecosystem
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1 2024
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Attract, engage, retain: Insights and recommendations for audit talent success
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Beyond buzzwords
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Sustainability in transactions
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Founder's guide for start-ups and entrepreneurs: the role of accountancy and finance
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Risk cultures in banking: Where next?
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Global talent trends 2024
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2024 World economic outlook: Slow growth
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4 2023
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SME Business challenges and strategic innovation
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Understanding risk in the public sector
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Environmental social and corporate governance
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Public sector sustainability reporting preparation
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3 2023
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Ethical dilemmas in sustainability reporting
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Leading the change
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Technology, innovation and future of accounting
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Quick guide to AI in business
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q2 2023
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The foundations for artificial intelligence
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Integrative thinking: the guide to becoming a value-adding CFO
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Social impact accounting and ESG integration in finance
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Value officer: Enhancing strategic finance and leadership
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Reporting of R&D: Disclosure without recognition?
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1 2023
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Twelve tenets of tax
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Green finance skills: the guide
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Sustainability assurance and ESG standards
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Global talent trends 2023
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4 2022
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Integrated thinking – the key to SMEs’ resilience?
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Green budgeting: a toolkit for public sector finance professionals
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Journey to AU2063: professional accountants empowering the AfCFTA agreement
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SME Toolkit: Creating a sustainable world
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Public sector professionalisation
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Hybrid working and SMPs
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Professional scepticism and cognitive biases in audit
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3 2022
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Financial services to global business services
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Public trust in tax: global perspectives 2022
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Companies' readiness to adopt IFRS S2 Climate-related disclosures
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q2, 2022
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Internal control systems and transformation
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Leading recovery: the evolving role of senior finance leadership in the public sector
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Practical toolkits for SMEs and SMPs
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Hybrid Working
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Finance Functions Opportunities
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Fintech state-of-play: opportunities for finance professionals
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Developing the skills of the sustainable business and finance professional
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Priorities for a transforming profession
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1, 2022
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Strengthening the wider corporate reporting ecosystem: are we entering a new audit era?
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Supply chains: a finance professional’s perspective
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q4 2021
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Rethinking public financial management system
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How SMEs can create a more sustainable world
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Transformational journeys: Finance and the agile organisation
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Climate action and the accountancy profession
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Way forward on fraud: A multi-stakeholder approach
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Global economic conditions survey: Q3 2021
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Professional accountants at the heart of sustainable organisations
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Public trust in tax: surveying public trust in G20 tax systems
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The challenges for medium sized businesses post Covid-19
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Climate change risk-related disclosures in extractive companies – a follow up report
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AI regulation and compliance: Connecting AI and ESG
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Global economic conditions survey: Q2 2021
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Rethinking risk for the future
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Finance functions: seizing the opportunity
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Is cash still king? Maximising the benefits of accrual information in the public sector
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Supporting the global profession
The capitalisation of intangibles debate: software development costs
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Auditing the pandemic: transparency, accountability and inclusiveness of the use of emergency funding for Covid-19
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Invisible threads: communicating integrated thinking
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Digital transformation in finance. Time to digitalise KYC?
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Gen Z and the future of accountancy
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1 2021
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Supporting the global profession
Leading inclusion: Steps and significant leaps
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Supporting the global profession
Gender Responsive Budgeting
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The capitalisation of Intangibles debate
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4, 2020 (2021)
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Leading inclusion in workplace diversity
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Space to grow: new models of business support
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Professional accountants changing business for the planet: a guide to natural capital management
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Tenets of business law
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Mainstreaming: Scaling a sustainable recovery
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3, 2020
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Foundations for a Sound Tax System: Simplicity, Certainty, Stability
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Analytics in finance and accountancy
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Responsible SMP pacesetters
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Careers in small and medium accountancy practices (SMPs)
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Sustainable public finances through Covid-19
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Meaningful work for the digital professional
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q2, 2020
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Finance insights-reimagined
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Covid-19: The road to recovery?
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Supporting the global profession
Insights into integrated reporting 4.0: The story so far
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Covid-19 Global Survey: Inside business- impacts and responses
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1, 2020
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Auditing the SDGs: Progress to 2030
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Digital accountant: skills in a new world
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Global Economic Themes 2020
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Explainable AI: Putting the user at the core
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Economic crime in a digital age
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4, 2019 (2020)
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Digital Leadership: Leading finance digital transformation
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Combating bribery in the SME sector
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Global policy on taxation of companies: principles and practices
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3, 2019
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Social and environmental value creation
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Innovation in public finance
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q2, 2019
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Business Forms: Building the legal framework to help business succeed
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Audit and Technology
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Finance's journey to the future
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Showcasing good practices in Public Financial Management, a joint series by IFAC and ACCA
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Cyber and the CFO
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Insights into integrated reporting 3.0: The drive for authenticity
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Risk and performance: Embedding risk management
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Closing the expectation gap in audit
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Re-inventing internal controls in the digital age
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How accountants can bridge the global infrastructure gap: Improving outcomes across the entire project life cycle
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1, 2019
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Machine learning in finance: More science than fiction
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Technology
The passionate practitioner: developing the digitalised small and medium practice
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Business forms: understanding the issues
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The capitalisation debate: R&D expenditure, disclosure content and quantity, and stakeholder views
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Supporting the global profession
G20 public trust in tax: Surveying public trust in G20 tax systems
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4, 2018
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Supporting the global profession
Scale-up success: what do SMEs need to supercharge their growth?
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Technology tools and the future of tax administration
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Supporting the global profession
Tax as a force for good: rebalancing our tax systems to support a global economy fit for the future
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Supporting the global profession
Thinking small first: Towards better auditing standards for the audits of less complex entities
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Supporting the global profession
Social mobility and the public sector
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Digital connectivity in accounting: a boost to the Belt and Road Initiative
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Learning for the future
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Emotional intelligence in a digital age
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q3, 2018
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How vision and strategy helps small businesses succeed: Governance needs of SMEs
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Robotic automation and the future of finance
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75 years of ACCA thought leadership
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Business models of the future: systems, convergence and characteristics
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Technology
Grow and create competitive advantage
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Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2018
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Global economics
Growing globally: How SMPs can unlock international ambitions
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Business forms: ACCA guides to the options for starting up
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Supporting the global profession
Tenets of good corporate governance
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Technology
Taking advantage of risk and regulatory complexity
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Generation Next: managing talent in the public sector
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q1, 2018
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Global economics
Brexit impact on financial services: second edition
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Supporting the global profession
Key audit matters: unlocking the secrets of the audit
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Supporting the global profession
Insights into integrated reporting 2.0: walking the talk
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Risk and the strategic role of leadership
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Technology
ICOs: real deal or token gesture?
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Tenets of a quality audit
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Generation Next: managing talent in large accountancy firms
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Supporting the global profession
Purpose and the profession
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Enhanced auditor reporting: Malaysia one year on
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q4, 2017
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Global economics
Accounting infrastructure: a booster to the Belt and Road Initiative
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Artificial intelligence in finance
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Technology
Cyber risk management in finance
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Technology
Lifting the cloud
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Technology
The race for relevance - technology opportunities for the finance function
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Technology
Analytics in finance
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Technology
Robotic Process Automation in finance
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Social media in finance
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Technology
Integrating an acquisition - the role of a modern day finance function
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Generation Next: managing talent in small and medium sized practices
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Directors responsibilities for financial reporting
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Supporting the global profession
The Sustainable Development Goals: redefining context, risk and opportunity
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Supporting the global profession
IPSAS implementation: current status and challenges
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q3, 2017
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Global economics
The economic benefits of the modern silk road
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Enhanced auditor reporting: Singapore one year on
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Technology
CFO guide to technology roadmapping
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Generation Next: managing talent in finance shared services
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Global economics
Far east to wild west: demand and supply in the new gas landscape
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Ethics and trust in a digital age
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Delivering profitable growth - the role of finance
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2017
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Global economics
Emerging from the shadows: the shadow economy to 2025
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Balancing rules and flexibility for growth in Africa
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Global economics
Brexit impact on financial services
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Technology
The ascent of digital
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Technology
The digital CFO
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Banishing bias? Audit, objectivity and the value of professional scepticism
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Effective speak-up arrangements for whistle-blowers
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Technology
The professional accountant's guide to distributed ledgers and blockchain
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Supporting the global profession
Insights into integrated reporting: challenges and best practice responses
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q1, 2017
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Supporting the global profession
G20 public trust in tax
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Finance shared services careers: opportunity or end game?
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Business models of the future: emerging value creation
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Smarter cities, simpler cities
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q4, 2016
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ACCA culture - governance tool
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50 drivers of change in the public sector
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Enterprise performance management: an eye on performance
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Generation Next
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q3, 2016
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Technology
FinTech - transforming finance
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Technology
Market change is faster than ever - is your finance function in the race?
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Supporting the global profession
Use and usefulness of integrated reporting
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Innovation and ERM: partners in managing the waves of disruption
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2016
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Supporting the global profession
Materiality and conciseness in Integrated Reporting
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Drivers of change and future skills
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Mapping the sustainability landscape
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Effective speak-up arrangements for whistle-blowers
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Profitability and cost analysis: an eye on value
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Global economic conditions survey: Q1 2016
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Talent equation: first insights
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The future of audit
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Technology
Constant forward motion: the evolving phenomenon of cybersecurity regulation and the race to keep up
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Technology
Cybersecurity - fighting crime’s enfant terrible
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Culture and channelling corporate behaviour
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Supporting the global profession
Performance reporting: an eye on the facts
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Technology
The data revolution
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Technology
The robots are coming - implications for finance shared services
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SoMoClo technologies
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Planning, budgeting and forecasting: an eye on the future
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Reporting risk
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A risk challenge culture
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Supporting the global profession
Financial insight: challenges and opportunities
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Future pathways to finance leadership
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Tomorrow’s finance enterprise
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The changing role of the CFO
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Corporate governance and risk: a study of board structure and process
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China's next 100 global giants 2018 edition
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Accountants and sustainable organisations
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Future ready: accountancy careers in the 2020s
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