Finance and treasury

• Value: How to create a robust financial forecast

  Using a dynamic business forecast can enable the focus to be shifted to long-term value creation.

• Value: Its meaning and measurement

  To understand a business’s value, management accountants need to become experts in intellectual capital and its impact on financial performance.

• Abu Dhabi's Etihad working on third sustainable financing transaction

  The airline has committed to net zero by 2050 and last year raised $600 million via an Islamic bond to aid its switch to more sustainable operations.

• Amazon to start offering insurance to UK businesses — broker

  More than half of customers are prepared to use nontraditional insurance companies, a global survey showed.

• How CFOs can incorporate resilience in their infrastructure plans

  An important part of securing more resilient infrastructure is investing in adaptability.

• Markets fear a different ‘delta’

  With one eye on the economic disruption from COVID-19's Delta variant, financial markets are just as concerned about a different “delta”: the ebbing rate of global credit creation.

• The evolving battle against money laundering

  Nonfinancial service organisations can take steps to adapt to a spate of new global anti-money laundering laws.

• Global dividends to near pre-pandemic levels in 2021, report says

  Limits placed on bank dividends had a considerable effect on 2020 payouts, but a latest global estimate is for an 8.5% “underlying rebound” in 2021.

• Banks take steps to reduce potential cloud computing risks, Google survey finds

  An international survey of financial services leaders found that many are considering adopting a multicloud strategy.

• Carbon pricing gains traction, but not enough to hit climate goal

  The latest World Bank report shows more than a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are now covered by carbon pricing schemes. Accountants may have new tasks related to carbon trading.

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