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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1 2021
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Supporting the global profession
Leading inclusion: simple steps significant leaps
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Supporting the global profession
Gender Responsive Budgeting
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Supporting the global profession
Climate Change Risk-related disclosures in Extractive Industries
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Supporting the global profession
The capitalisation of Intangibles debate
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4, 2020 (2021)
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Professional insight report
Leading inclusion
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Professional accountants
– the futureSpace to grow: new models of business support
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Professional accountants
– the futureNew models of public procurement: a tool for sustainable recovery
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Supporting the global profession
Professional accountants changing business for the planet: a guide to natural capital management
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Supporting the global profession
Tenets of business law
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Professional accountants
– the futureMainstreaming impact: Scaling a sustainable recovery
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3, 2020
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Professional accountants
– the futureThe CFO of the Future
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Supporting the global profession
Foundations for a Sound Tax System: Simplicity, Certainty, Stability
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Professional insight report
Responsible SMP pacesetters
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Supporting the global profession
Careers in small and medium sized accountancy practices (SMPs)
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Supporting the global profession
Sustainable public finances through Covid-19
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q2, 2020
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Professional accountants
– the futureFinance insights-reimagined
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Global economics
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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Professional accountants
– the futureAccountants, purpose and sustainable organisations
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Global economics
Covid-19 Global Survey: Inside business- impacts and responses
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1, 2020
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Supporting the global profession
Auditing the SDGs: Progress to 2030
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Supporting the global profession
Is cash still king? Maximising the benefits of accrual information in the public sector
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Global economics
Global Economic Themes 2020
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Risk
Economic crime in a digital age
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q4, 2019 (2020)
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Professional accountants
– the futureFuture ready: accountancy careers in the 2020s
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Supporting the global profession
Combating bribery in the SME sector
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Supporting the global profession
Global policy on taxation of companies: principles and practices
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q3, 2019
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Supporting the global profession
Social and environmental value creation
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Professional insight report
Innovation in public finance
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Global economics
China's next 100 global giants 2018 edition
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q2, 2019
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Supporting the global profession
Business Forms: Building the legal framework to help business succeed
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Professional accountants
– the futureFinance's journey to the future
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Supporting the global profession
Insights into integrated reporting 3.0: The drive for authenticity
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Supporting the global profession
Showcasing good practices in Public Financial Management, a joint series by IFAC and ACCA
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Risk
Risk and performance: Embedding risk management
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Supporting the global profession
Closing the expectation gap in audit
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Global economics
Global Economic Conditions Survey: Q1, 2019
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Supporting the global profession
How accountants can bridge the global infrastructure gap: Improving outcomes across the entire project life cycle
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Supporting the global profession
Business forms: understanding the issues
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Professional accountants
– the futureEmotional quotient in a digital age
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Supporting the global profession
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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Supporting the global profession
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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Supporting the global profession
The Sustainable Development Goals: redefining context, risk and opportunity
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Professional accountants
– the futureLearning for the future
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q3, 2018
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Risk
How vision and strategy helps small businesses succeed: Governance needs of SMEs
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Professional accountants
– the future75 years of ACCA thought leadership
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Professional accountants
– the futureBusiness models of the future: systems, convergence and characteristics
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2018
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Global economics
Growing globally: How SMPs can unlock international ambitions
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Supporting the global profession
Business forms: ACCA guides to the options for starting up
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Professional accountants
– the futureDrivers of change and future skills
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Supporting the global profession
Tenets of good corporate governance
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Professional accountants
– the futureGeneration 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
Risk and the strategic role of leadership
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Supporting the global profession
Tenets of a quality audit
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Supporting the global profession
Tenets of good corporate reporting
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Professional accountants
– the futureGeneration Next: managing talent in large accountancy firms
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Supporting the global profession
Purpose and the profession
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q4, 2017
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Supporting the global profession
Directors responsibilities for financial reporting
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Supporting the global profession
IPSAS implementation: current status and challenges
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Professional accountants
– the futureGeneration Next: managing talent in small and medium sized practices
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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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Professional accountants
– the futureEthics and trust in a digital age
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Professional accountants
– the futureGeneration Next: managing talent in finance shared services
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2017
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Global economics
The Belt and Road initiative: reshaping the global value chain
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Risk
Balancing rules and flexibility for growth in Africa
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Global economics
Far east to wild west: demand and supply in the new gas landscape
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Global economics
Emerging from the shadows: the shadow economy to 2025
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Global economics
Brexit impact on financial services
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q4, 2016
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Risk
Effective speak-up arrangements for whistle-blowers
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Risk
ACCA culture - governance tool
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q3, 2016
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Technology
Audit and Technology
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Technology
Robotic Process Automation in finance
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Technology
The passionate practitioner: developing the digitalised small and medium practice
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Professional accountants
– the future50 drivers of change in the public sector
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Supporting the global profession
Effective speak-up arrangements for whistle-blowers
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Supporting the global profession
Use and usefulness of integrated reporting
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Professional accountants
– the futureFuture pathways to finance leadership
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Technology
ICOs: real deal or token gesture?
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Technology
The race for relevance - technology opportunities for the finance function
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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
The ascent of digital
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Technology
Re-inventing internal controls in the digital age
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Supporting the global profession
12 tenets of tax
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Technology
Taking advantage of risk and regulatory complexity
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Technology
Integrating an acquisition - the role of a modern day finance function
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Technology
Embracing robotic automation during the evolution of finance
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Technology
Meaningful work for the digital professional: roadmap beyond the pandemic
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Technology
The robots are coming - implications for finance shared services
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Global economics
Digital connectivity in accounting: a boost to the Belt and Road Initiative
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Supporting the global profession
Mapping the sustainability landscape
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Professional accountants
– the futureGeneration Next
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Technology
CFO guide to technology roadmapping
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Professional accountants
– the futureThe changing role of the CFO
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Supporting the global profession
Materiality and conciseness in Integrated Reporting
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Risk
Innovation and ERM: partners in managing the waves of disruption
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Technology
Social media in finance
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Technology
Lifting the cloud
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Global economics
Smarter cities, simpler cities
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Professional accountants
– the futureFinance shared services careers: opportunity or end game?
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Technology
Cyber risk management in finance
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Supporting the global profession
Profitability and cost analysis: an eye on value
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Technology
Grow and create competitive advantage
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Risk
A risk challenge culture
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Technology
Analytics in finance
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Professional accountants
– the futureThe future of audit
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Supporting the global profession
Enterprise performance management: an eye on performance
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Technology
Artificial intelligence in finance
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Technology
The digital CFO
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Risk
Corporate governance and risk: a study of board structure and process
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Supporting the global profession
Banishing bias? Audit, objectivity and the value of professional scepticism
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Global economics
Accounting infrastructure: a booster to the Belt and Road Initiative
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Technology
FinTech - transforming finance
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Technology
The data revolution
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Risk
Culture and channelling corporate behaviour
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Technology
Cyber and the CFO
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q2, 2016
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Professional accountants
– the futureTomorrow’s finance enterprise
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Supporting the global profession
Planning, budgeting and forecasting: an eye on the future
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Supporting the global profession
Financial insight: challenges and opportunities
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q1, 2017
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Technology
Cybersecurity - fighting crime’s enfant terrible
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Global economics
Global economic conditions survey: Q1 2016
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Supporting the global profession
Insights into integrated reporting: challenges and best practice responses
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Technology
Machine learning: more science than fiction
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Technology
Analytics in finance and accountancy
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Technology
Market change is faster than ever - is your finance function in the race?
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Professional accountants
– the futureBusiness models of the future: emerging value creation
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Supporting the global profession
Performance reporting: an eye on the facts
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Professional accountants
– the futureSoMoClo technologies
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Professional insight report
Explainable AI: Putting the user at the core
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Risk
Reporting risk
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Professional insight report
The digital accountant: digital skills in a transformed world
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Global economics
China’s next 100 global giants 2016 edition
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Technology
Delivering profitable growth - the role of finance
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Article
Digital Leadership: Leading finance digital transformation
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Technology
The professional accountant's guide to distributed ledgers and blockchain
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Supporting the global profession
G20 public trust in tax
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Professional accountants
– the futureTalent equation: first insights
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