2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (822+ words) IMAGE BY KAVIK/ADOBE STOCK Editor’s note: This article is Part 1 of a two-part series on Manus AI and autonomous agents. Part 2 explains the difference between Agent Skills and the OpenClaw framework and highlights the risk categories associated with autonomous…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (422+ words) CIMA called for the UK government to put business growth at the centre of its reset with new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, starting with urgent tax and skills reforms. “We’re asking government to reduce the cost of doing business, give…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (115+ words) To support digital financial reporting in accordance with new and amended IFRS accounting standards, the IASB issued a proposed update to the IFRS accounting taxonomy 2025. According to a news release, the update has the following additions and amendments: The IASB…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (643+ words) IMAGE BY KATKAMI/ADOBE STOCK Policies, standards, and training are all part and parcel of good practice in spreadsheet usage for businesses in the 21st century — with good reason. However, whilst Excel’s scope in the corporate environment is vast, it is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (470+ words) Decentralised talent data is restricting strategic succession, hiring, and workforce utilisation for organisations, a global survey shows. The lack of integration of talent systems means that more leaders use intuition rather than insights to guide talent initiatives. Data fragmentation is…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (554+ words) Narrating an integrated story of business performance presupposes that the information needed to produce a coherent strategic report is available from management information. It is to some extent. But what’s often not readily available from management information is what the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (796+ words) IMAGE BY PRIME LENS/ADOBE STOCK Every organisation evolves through distinct developmental stages, from inception to maturity and, sometimes, renewal or decline. Each stage comes with its own opportunities, constraints, and leadership demands. Aligning these life cycle stages with board…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (356+ words) CIMA was recently named as the professional/training organisation of the year at an international awards ceremony and received an honour in Sri Lanka. CIMA was recognised for its commitment to preparing talent for the future of the finance profession…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (472+ words) The annual report from the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), and the AICPA and CIMA, The State of Play: Sustainability Disclosure and Assurance (Six-Year Trends and Analysis, 2019-2024), collected data from the 100 largest companies in six featured jurisdictions (including the UK)…...

1+ mon, 20+ hour ago   (1100+ words) For the past five years, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting has been a “tomorrow” problem. Treated as a voluntary or peripheral concern, it belonged to sustainability officers and marketing departments. That era is over. With the Corporate Sustainability Reporting…...