New platform produces big improvements to technical content on ACCA UK website.

In February, ACCA launched its new website for members in the UK. Amongst the biggest changes is how we provide technical content on the site.

Despite awaiting a long overdue makeover, the former website proved very popular, with 49,880 page views alone during January 2014.  This represented an increase of 21,000 on January 2013, with a rolling year to date total for February 2013 to January 2014 of 431,373 compared to 247,894 for the corresponding period in 2013. 

In recent years, the site has become one of the leading free technical resources for ACCA members and now represents one of the leading information resources in the marketplace. 

The new website
The new Technical Advisory website is a modern, up-to-date and continually improving resource for ACCA. It provides ACCA members with up-to-date, topical and relevant information across all disciplines that they are likely to encounter in their business lives – for free.

The website is broken down into four main technical areas:

• Financial Reporting – This includes:
  
  
  • General guidance on financial reporting
  • Access to accounting standards: UK GAAP, international GAAP and new UK GAAP
  • A dedicated sub-section on new UK GAAP.
    
    
• Taxation – This includes guidance across all taxes, as follows:
  Income Tax
  Corporation Tax
  Capital Gains Tax
  VAT and indirect tax
  Inheritance tax
  Capital allowances
  Other Taxes
  Tax Cases
• Audit and Assurance – Guidance on topical auditing matters.
  
  
• Business law – Guidance on business law, such as employment law, money laundering regulations and other legislation such as the Bribery Act.

In addition to the above, the site also contains guidance on:

• Managing your business for members in industry and practice
• Managing your practice for members in practice
• A dedicated site on obtaining business finance, which has been developed in conjunction with Barclays.

Guides and Technical Factsheets
These include:

• Technical Factsheets on a range of matters of importance for ACCA members, such as the market-leading factsheet on the new UK GAAP
• A range of Guides to which our member firms in practice can take and personalise before sending to their clients.

We hope that the Technical Advisory website will continue its successful march and help to provide ACCA members with value for their membership. It is your website and we welcome any feedback so feel free to contact us and suggest any ways in which you feel that the site can be improved.

The Technical Advisory team at ACCA UK can be contacted on 020 7059 5920 or by email.