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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4 2023
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SMEs: Business challenges and strategic innovation opportunities
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Public sector: Preparing for sustainability reporting and assurance
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3 2023
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Ethical dilemmas in an era of sustainability reporting
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Leading the change
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Reporting of R&D: Disclosure without recognition?
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Risk culture: building resilience and seizing opportunities
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Twelve tenets of tax
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Green finance skills: the guide
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Sustainability assurance – rising to the challenge
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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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Public sector professionalisation
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Professional scepticism and cognitive biases in audit
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Financial shared services to global business services models: a journey worth taking?
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Companies' readiness to adopt IFRS S2 Climate-related disclosures
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Internal control and the Transformation of Entities
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Supply chains: a finance professional’s perspective
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Rethinking public financial management
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How SMEs can create a more sustainable world
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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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Ethics for sustainable AI adoption: connecting AI and ESG
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Is cash still king? Maximising the benefits of accrual information in the public sector
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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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KYC time to digitalise the first line of defence?
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Leading inclusion: simple steps significant leaps
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Gender Responsive Budgeting
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Sustainable public finances through Covid-19
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Auditing the SDGs: Progress to 2030
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Global policy on taxation of companies: principles and practices
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Policy and insights report
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Business Forms: Building the legal framework to help business succeed
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Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1, 2019
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Business forms: understanding the issues
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G20 public trust in tax: Surveying public trust in G20 tax systems
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Scale-up success: what do SMEs need to supercharge their growth?
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Thinking small first: Towards better auditing standards for the audits of less complex entities
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Social mobility and the public sector
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Business forms: ACCA guides to the options for starting up
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Tenets of good corporate governance
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Global economic conditions survey: Q1, 2018
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Key audit matters: unlocking the secrets of the audit
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Insights into integrated reporting 2.0: walking the talk
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ICOs: real deal or token gesture?
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Tenets of a quality audit
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Tenets of good corporate reporting
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Directors responsibilities for financial reporting
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The Sustainable Development Goals: redefining context, risk and opportunity
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IPSAS implementation: current status and challenges
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Global economic conditions survey: Q3, 2017
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The economic benefits of the modern silk road
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CFO guide to technology roadmapping
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Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2017
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The ascent of digital
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Banishing bias? Audit, objectivity and the value of professional scepticism
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Risk
Effective speak-up arrangements for whistle-blowers
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The professional accountant's guide to distributed ledgers and blockchain
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Insights into integrated reporting: challenges and best practice responses
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Global economic conditions survey: Q1, 2017
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G20 public trust in tax
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Global economic conditions survey: Q4, 2016
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Use and usefulness of integrated reporting
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Risk
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Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2016
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Materiality and conciseness in Integrated Reporting
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Effective speak-up arrangements for whistle-blowers
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Global economic conditions survey: Q1 2016
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Performance reporting: an eye on the facts
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Planning, budgeting and forecasting: an eye on the future
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