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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

Businesses are struggling to keep pace with the growing burden of compliance, according to a Thompson Reuters study. Most organisations (73 per cent) said they expected the volume of regulatory change to increase… More

Just over half (51%) of the UK’s businesses said it was the responsibility of government to ensure that organisations successfully adapt to the challenges of climate change – compared with only 15%… More

About half of all multinational companies said they planned to reduce office space over the next three years, according to a survey by real estate companies Frank Knight and Cresa. The largest number… More

European car manufacturers have warned the UK government to renegotiate its Brexit arrangements with Europe or risk losing thousands of jobs in the UK. In May, the world’s third largest carmaker Stellantis… More