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By: Helen Brand OBE

Helen Brand OBE is the chief executive of ACCA

  • Why risk culture could be a competitive advantage for your business

    The recent turmoil in the banking sector has underlined the importance of risk culture as a fundamental component of business resilience. The failures of Credit Suisse, First Republic and other banks are a stark reminder of why we must incorporate risk into governance and strategy. All too often, risk management is associated with compliance and [...]

  • Mark this Earth Day by investing in green finance skills

    This year’s Earth Day on Saturday should serve as an urgent call to action for businesses. As a community, we must rapidly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and help our society adapt to human-caused climate change.  If businesses are to deliver on their sustainability strategies and fund essential innovation, they also need access to well-priced [...]

  • Making hybrid working work across the City

    Last month, ACCA published our inaugural Global Talent Trends 2023 survey, which shared valuable insights into workplace trends and practices from more than 8,400 professional accountants around the world. We found that out of all the topics covered in the report, hybrid working attracted the most attention.  This deep interest in hybrid work models is [...]

  • Navigating the talent challenge: where should your people priorities lie over the next 12 months?

    February 9, 2023

    The expertise and skills of people underpin the success of virtually every organisation. Yet ongoing skills shortages are often preventing today’s organisations from accessing the vital people they need to innovate and grow. ACCA’s inaugural 2023 Global Talent Trends Survey highlights some of the most pressing people challenges faced by employers globally, including in the [...]

  • Why better business planning can help us save the world

    November 24, 2022

    The recent COP27 summit in Egypt has further reinforced the urgency of the climate threat. As countries, as organisations, and as individuals, we need to do far more to combat climate change, and act much faster than we’re acting today. I believe that finance professionals can play a crucial role in the collective effort to [...]

  • Welcome to the new world of work

    October 20, 2022

    In 1771 a Lancastrian named Richard Arkwright opened the world’s first water-powered cotton spinning mill in Derbyshire. And not just that. To run his new-fangled factory he invented the pattern for the modern working week that has survived until today. The working day at Cromford Mill began at 6am and the shift ended at 6pm. [...]

  • Keeping entrepreneurial spirits high despite the economic challenges

    September 29, 2022

    With the holiday season over and as we start the autumn term, many of us will have friends or family members either starting university, advancing their education and training, or entering the workforce for the first time.Emerging from a global pandemic, addressing an increasingly urgent climate crisis and facing an uncertain global economic and political [...]

  • SMEs put the buzz into business

    July 14, 2022

    Micro-firms are the worker bees of the economy. They provide the thousand-and-one services that keep business going, contribute to the community, and help us keep our daily lives on track. They are the one-man bands; the partnerships, and the family businesses. They’re the people in the kiosk at the station serving your coffee in the [...]

  • Fintech and the accountancy profession

    May 19, 2022

    The union of finance and technology as fintech has become pervasive, transforming how financial services are delivered and consumed. It’s a thriving sector with many diverse parts such as online-only or neobanks, peer-to-peer lending, payment gateways / application programming interfaces (APIs), investment banking back-end infrastructure, insurtech, wealthtech and regtech. And that’s before considering some frontier [...]

  • How accountancy can help advance the global economies of tomorrow

    April 14, 2022

    Society’s expectations of business and governments have shifted with speed and intensity. This has been driven by the profound impacts of Covid-19, compounded by deeply alarming threats to peace and prosperity from the war in Ukraine and conflict elsewhere. The humanitarian cost is devastating, while economic growth, public debt and wellbeing have all been adversely [...]

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