This month, our main interview is with Nirala Singh FCCA. She is head of finance at BAT Bangladesh, but the Trinidad and Tobago-born Nirala, her husband and two children have relocated to five countries – including Costa Rica, Romania and Mexico – in three continents during her career. Read more about her global view here

As environmental, social and governance (ESG) moves up the agenda in the Middle East, we look at the unique challenges faced by family businesses in the region as they look to integrate frameworks.

Meanwhile, Las Vegas has been playing host to the annual Microsoft Excel World Championship, an e-sport competition in which the kings and queens of data crunching pit their skills against each other.

The Economist’s Big Mac Index has been amusing finance executives for some years now. It does, though, have a serious point to make about the best ways to understand undervalued and overvalued currencies.

In our careers section we find out how to make a move into the niche and intellectually stimulating specialism of transfer pricing management, and ask whether there are downsides to team-based performance rewards.  

Finally, if you missed ACCA’s annual conference Accounting for the Future, and its counterpart the Virtual Public Sector Conference, don’t despair – you can still watch on demand and earn up to 21 CPD units ahead of this year’s deadline. The three-day event looked at trends and developments affecting professional accountants around the world, including opportunities around new technology, imperatives for sustainability, and the new skills needed in this fast-moving landscape.

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