How do the students with the top marks achieve their impressive results? What's the secret? In this episode we talk to 3 ACCA prizewinners around the world, Aminat Kamaru from Nigeria, Shahzeb Khan from Pakistan and Robyn Hever from the UK, about their goals, challenges and top tips for studying and passing exams.

What is mindfulness and why is it such a big deal these days, both inside and outside of the workplace? In the first episode of our new interview series, we talk to mindfulness expert, teacher and author Tessa Watt about how mindfulness can be of benefit to those studying and practising accountancy.

This podcast gives an overview of big data and its characteristics. It then explores data analytics and looks at some examples of how using big data and data analytics can improve business performance.

The finance minister Heng Swee Keat delivered a futuristic Singapore Budget Statement for the Financial Year 2018 on 19 February 2018. A slew of tax changes were announced to provide near-term support to firms and workers, foster pervasive innovation, build deep capabilities and forge strong partnerships both locally and abroad. This podcast explores the significant tax changes announced for businesses in Budget 2018.

This podcast provides some insight into the matters that need to be considered by auditors when engaged to provide the external audit service to a client operating in a specialised industry.

The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations replaced the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 with updated provisions that implement in part the EU Fourth Money Laundering Directive, which in turn applied the latest Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards. This podcast will look at the changes introduced by the new regulations.

There are a number of possible criminal offences relating to tax evasion. Some of these are statutory and others are covered by the common law. This podcast provides an overview of the measures introduced by the Criminal Finances Act 2017.

Failing an exam can feel like the worst thing in the world – how do you pick yourself back up? Understand what went wrong so you pass next time. Here are some tips for moving forward with a positive mindset.

Leadership skills are among those most sought after by accountancy and finance employers, even for entry-level positions. Can you have a career in finance if you don’t aspire to lead?

Professional accountants will need to reassess their relationship with technology as the number of areas where automation meets emotional intelligence increase.