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- Finance Transformation: Expert Insights on Shared Services and Outsourcing
 - ACCA, January 2012. This report presents insights from global experts of companies at the forefront of finance transformation activity. It explores the issues, challenges and opportunities facing businesses transitioning to new finance models to improve business performance.
- 5 minutes on... The E-professional: Embracing Learning Technologies
- ACCA, November 2011. This executive summary aims to provide you with an outline of the full report in less than five minutes.
- The E-professional: Embracing Learning Technologies
- ACCA, November 2011. This paper reviews how online approaches to learning and assessment are affecting professional development, and the impacts this is having on employers of finance professionals. It presents the world of the e-professional based on research among training and development experts, and it explores what the future of online learning and assessment may look like.
- Maximising People Power: Effective Talent Management in Finance
- ACCA and KPMG, March 2011. This report provides a follow-up to ACCA's survey 'Talent Management in 2010'. A key finding of this research was that less than 20% of organisations had a talent strategy that fully integrated talent identification, development, deployment and retention activity across the finance team. Most talent management practices were found to be informal, sometimes run in isolation, and often functionally based without being part of an integrated, wider plan. Using a series of case studies, this report looks at how talent management can shape and influence the structure of finance functions, and highlights the practices organisations should be adopting in order to deliver the best possible talent development for finance professionals.
- Accounting for Health
- Hay, Jen and Lievens, February 2011. What is the relationship between expenditure on healthcare systems and health outcomes? This relationship has attracted particular attention because, in many countries, expenditure on healthcare is rising faster than income. In addition, with increasingly constrained economic and financial circumstances the need to maximise health outcomes is ever more pressing. This report on the drivers of health outcomes reviews why some countries with the same level of income produce better health outcomes than others. (Ref: RR-121)
- The Relevance and Utility of Leading Accounting Research
- Unerman and O'Dwyer, 2010. This analysis of articles published in the six top-ranked accounting journals, suggests that for the future health of the accounting academy and of individual leading journals, more of the latter need to encourage the submission and publication of a broader range of accounting research. Without this they risk losing their status as foremost journals and will also contribute to the risk that accounting research will lose credibility, if it is no longer seen to serve the needs of the societies that fund this research. (Ref: RR-120)
- Business Advice to SMEs: Human Resources and Employment
- Jarvis and Rigby, 2011. This report investigates the type of support in the areas of human resources and employment advice, accountants in small and medium-sized accountancy practices provide for their SME clients. (Ref: RR-123)
- Generation Y: Realising the Potential
- Jamie Lyon, Sue Filmer and Bruce McDougall, July 2010. This joint research paper from ACCA and Mercer, presents one of the most substantive and widespread surveys of Generation Y
finance professionals ever undertaken, with respondents from 122 countries. It provides a unique perspective for the finance profession. It gives a blueprint for employers of finance professionals for recruiting, developing, engaging and retaining the future of the profession in today’s workplace.
- Talent Management in 2010: Foundations for Growth
- Jamie Lyon, July 2010. This paper considers organisational approaches to one of the key challenges facing the accountancy profession in 2010; the identification, development, deployment and retention of finance talent.
- Collaborative Working: Why Relationships Matter in Finance
- Jamie Lyon, March 2010. The paper reviews how leading finance functions look to work collaboratively by building internal and external relationships. It also considers why collaborative working is important for finance professionals aspiring to leadership roles, and gives some sound advice for how collaborative relationships can be developed.
- Human Capital in Accounting and Finance: Accountants for Business
- Tony Osude and Jamie Lyon, October 2009. This report considers how and where accountants can drive value in the organisation. It looks at how this value can be optimised, and considers the features of finance functions that best support delivering value. It also demonstrates how business factors can shape and drive optimal finance structures, and presents a three-step model for optimisation.
- The CFO's New Environment
- CFO Research Services in collaboration with ACCA, July 2009. This report is based on the results of an online survey completed by more than 450 senior finance executives across the world, and on in-depth interviews with executives from 11 major companies.
- Human Capital Management
- ACCA, June 2009. This report outlines the results of research assessing disclosures of UK organisations on human capital management, providing an overview of results, good practice case studies and recommendations for improvement. In association with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
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