COURSES
Professional development
COURSES
Professional development
Quality Management in an Audit Engagement
Online live, 17 February or 8 July
The audit market has come under pressure following a number of high-profile corporate failures, and it will continue to be an area of scrutiny for the regulators. This course focuses on current audit quality issues and outlines the actions required to achieve an improvement.
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Corporation Tax – Refresher and Update
Online live, 19 February or 14 May
This one-day course covers the fundamentals of corporate tax issues and provides an update on recent developments. It gives up-to-date knowledge of the tax’s main principles and rules, without demanding in-depth specialist knowledge of the subject.
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How to Be More Confident
Online live, 19 February or 19 May
Would you be more effective and successful if only you were more confident? Confidence can be learnt – this gentle, yet powerful course, conducted in an interactive environment, focuses on creating and developing confidence for professional and personal success.
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Financial Modelling – Advanced
(and Introduction to VBA)
Online live, 5–6 March
London, 1–2 June
This two-day course is for those looking to expand their financial modelling skills. Numerous hands-on, practical Excel exercises are used to demonstrate different functionality in a modelling context. The focus is on time-savers and other techniques which will improve the quality of your financial models.
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Charity Financial Reporting Update
Online live, 11 March or 18 June
This update reflects on contemporary accounting issues regarding charities. The course will help finance professionals effectively manage a charity’s operations and finances, highlighting tricky accounting areas and the ways third-sector organisations can prepare themselves for a world becoming increasingly unpredictable.
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Understanding Contracts – An Overview for Non-Lawyers
Online live, 12 March or 16 July
This course provides a jargon-free overview of issues commonly found in business-to-business contracts from the perspectives of both supplier and buyer. Each topic covered will outline the relevant commercial and legal considerations as well as providing a series of drafting tips.
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VAT Refresher and Update
Online live, 26 March or 8 June
This one-day course provides a reminder of the fundamentals of UK value added tax, an update on recent developments and examples of typical problem areas and planning opportunities. Many examples are used to show how the tax works and planning points are highlighted.
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Power BI – An Essential Toolkit
Online live, 27 March or 16 July
Empower your business analysis with data-driven decisions. Make unified data visualisations and share insights that drive success. Transform, unify, analyse and visualise data. This course is for anyone who wants to get to know Power BI tools in a business context.
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For more information or to book course titles, visit our training partner BPP’s website, email them at ldicas@bpp.com or call 0330 060 3303
SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSES
Budget vs Actual
Length: 1 hour
Budget is typically agreed before the start of the financial period it covers – and, as the period passes, the actual performance is then compared with the budget as a benchmark. This online course covers variance analysis, which is used to benchmark budget against actual performance in more detail.
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Financial Modelling Introduction
1: Golden Rules
Length: 1 hour
It is easy to build a poor financial model, but harder to build one that is high quality and satisfies the needs of the user. To achieve the latter there are a number of golden rules (dos and don’ts) to follow – this course explains what they are.
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Managing Difficult Members of Staff
Length: 1 hour
This course discusses the different types of difficulty a manager may encounter with a member of staff, the motivation of the staff member concerned and how a team may react to them. It covers practical steps needed to deal with both the short and longer-term implications.
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Working Capital – The Strategic Overview
Length: 1 hour
There’s clear evidence that companies that manage working capital well enjoy higher profits and lower operational risks than their counterparts. This course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge to integrate the management of working capital into your company’s overall strategy.
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For more information on any of our on-demand course titles, please email ldicas@bpp.com with the subject line “On-demand course enquiry” and course title(s)
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