This month, our main interview is with Harun Ülgen FCCA, CFO of Turkish pharmaceutical company Nobel İlaç. Displaying a healthy attitude to business, he is now focusing his efforts on supporting the company’s future growth strategy. ‘Finance plays a crucial role in purchasing, investment, manufacturing, marketing and selling,’ he explains, ‘so I’m trying to integrate finance into as many business processes as possible.’
Staying with Europe, we report on how Germany is going for growth, with its biggest tax reform in ßmore than a decade aiming to kickstart business investment. The government’s new €46bn tax package, part of a wider programme that also channels hundreds of billions of euros into infrastructure and defence, marks its most ambitious effort in more than a decade to reverse sluggish corporate investment. Read what finance professionals think of the reforms.
Over in the US, regulators are mulling an end to quarterly reporting. Scrapping the three-monthly requirement could ease corporate burdens but will it damage transparency? Should they go ahead, they will be in good company. Even the EU – not known for its regulatory levity – in 2013 scrapped requirements for listed companies to issue quarterly reports.
The arrival of AI has been heralded as the greatest transformation in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping or the biggest gimmick since the calculator watch, depending on who you ask. AB interviewed four ACCA members in a variety of finance roles about how their AI usage has developed in 2025, where they see future opportunities, and their assessment of AI’s much vaunted skillset. Find out what they think here.
Budget constraints, changing public expectations and plummeting levels of trust are some of the challenges facing public sector organisations. A recent report by ACCA, Leading with purpose, which includes interviews with senior finance leaders in public sector organisations worldwide, cites collaboration – internally and externally – as a key foundation for strong leadership in delivering public services. Find out more.
As the CPD year-end deadline looms, there are points to be gained from our CPD articles. CPD units are also on offer from ACCA’s annual virtual conference, Accounting for the Future, and this year’s Virtual Public Sector Conference (register to watch on demand), both of which are free to view for members.
