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1 week ago | 
the-cfo.io | Marina Mouka
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has a message for the company’s corporate workforce: AI is coming for your job. In a memo circulated to staff, Jassy made it clear that artificial intelligence—particularly autonomous agents and generative models—will soon do much of the work now handled by people.
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1 week ago | 
accountancyage.com | Marina Mouka
The UK tax gap held steady at 5.3% in 2023–24, translating to £46.8 billion in unpaid taxes, according to the latest HMRC statistics. While the percentage has remained broadly stable over recent years, the shape of the gap is shifting—and not in ways many expected. Corporation Tax has now overtaken all other categories to account for 40% of the total tax gap, up from just 24% five years ago.
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1 week ago | 
accountancyage.com | Marina Mouka
A group of former executives from Sky, Barclays, KFC and Deloitte have joined forces with the advisory firm Beyond the Blueprint to expand its reach among UK businesses facing strategic disruption and organisational change. The firm, which launched in 2023, has attracted high-profile backers from across the consumer, technology, and financial sectors.
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1 week ago | 
the-cfo.io | Marina Mouka
Vodafone Group has appointed Pilar López as Chief Financial Officer Designate, set to take the reins formally on December 1, 2025. López, whose resume spans senior roles across the telecom and technology sectors, will begin transitioning into the role from October 1, following the previously announced departure of current CFO Luka Mucic.
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1 week ago | 
the-cfo.io | Marina Mouka
For a business built on simplifying pensions, Christoph Martin’s finance strategy is anything but simplistic. Since joining PensionBee in 2019, the CFO has helped scale the company through a public listing, profitability in its core UK market, and an expansion into the U.S., all while keeping a clear line of sight on long-term sustainable growth and profitability.
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1 week ago | 
accountancyage.com | Marina Mouka
Self-employed workers are flooding the internet for Making Tax Digital (MTD) guidance as HMRC helplines fall short, leaving many scrambling for answers ahead of the 2026 rollout. New analysis by RIFT reveals a sharp spike in online search activity around MTD for Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA), just as HMRC’s ability to respond to phone queries appears to be declining.
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1 week ago | 
accountancyage.com | Marina Mouka
John Graham FCMA, CGMA, has been appointed as the 92nd President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), becoming the first sitting NHS finance leader to serve in the role while holding a full-time executive position. He will also act as the 10th Co-Chair of the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants, the global alliance formed by CIMA and AICPA.
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1 week ago | 
accountancyage.com | Marina Mouka
Three-quarters of UK accountancy students now say they want to start their own business, marking a decisive generational shift in how the next wave of talent sees the future of the profession. That’s according to new research from Intuit QuickBooks, which surveyed 500 students across various accounting pathways — from T Levels and apprenticeships to university degrees and professional qualifications.
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1 week ago | 
bobsguide.com | Marina Mouka
As regulatory clarity emerges and institutional demand sharpens, stablecoins are entering a new phase – one defined less by crypto speculation and more by infrastructure transformation. That was the overriding message from the OpenPayd Summer Soirée, held this week at Los Mochis London City.
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1 week ago | 
the-cfo.io | Marina Mouka
Business decision-makers are under increasing pressure to keep pace with the relentless acceleration of change and growing complexity across business ecosystems. In pursuit of greater efficiencies, technology has enabled businesses to increase automation with rules and processes and flatten organizational structures. But faced with ever-increasing complexity, surely managers need more time, not less, to make good decisions?
