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Smaller businesses are too overwhelmed by coping with day-to-day business demands to focus on sustainability issues, the UK accountancy body ICAEW said.  Research by the organisation showed that net zero, for instance, had… More

Climate-related litigation is becoming a major source of risk as cases against businesses continue to rise, according to Frank Elderson, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB).… More

In this GRC Investment Guide, SAI360 breakdown how a technological approach is no longer just a luxury but has become a necessity for organisations that have thrived in a rapidly evolving environment.… More

Enterprise risk executives said that generative AI – such as ChatGPT and Google Bard – were a top concern, according to a recent survey by the analyst Gartner. “Generative AI was the second… More

Another pandemic and disrupted energy supplies ranked as two of the most significant risks to the UK in the government’s 2023 National Risk Register. The document declassifies some risks for the first time.… More

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has updated its toolkit for boards in an effort to improve help organisations embed cyber resilience and risk management throughout their organisations. NCSC said that boards must… More

The International Standards Setting Board released two major documents on sustainability in June – IFRS1 and IFRS2.  IFRS1 set out the General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and IFRS S2 sets… More

Over the past decade only one in four organisations said they had achieved extensive or complete digitalisation, according to a new study by the Association for Intelligent Information Management. A further 39 per cent… More

The system of local auditing in the UK is “close to breaking point”, the House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) said.  Local government bodies looking to publish their accounts for 2021-22 received… More