COURSES
Professional development
COURSES
Professional development
Solicitors’ Accounts Rules
Online live, 23 July or 25 November
This practical half‑day update helps legal firms and finance teams navigate the key compliance requirements of Solicitors’ Accounts Rules (Rule B6). Gain essential skills in managing client money, rectifying breaches, ensuring accurate accounts certificates and working effectively with reporting accountants.
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Data Literacy for Confident
Decision Making
Online live, 24 July or 26 October
In an increasingly data-driven world, the ability to understand, interpret and communicate data is a vital skill for professionals across all sectors. Learn to identify trends and communicate insights using accessible tools, visual storytelling and ethical data practices to support smarter decisions.
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CFO of the Future Part 1: Finance Leadership
Online live, 13 August
In today’s rapidly changing business climate, the CFO’s role has never been more important. The first workshop in this series will help you become a change leader who can transform finance into a best-in-class operation. The content focuses on developing a vision and roadmap for finance.
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Relationship Building and Networking
Online live, 26 August or 23 November
Strong bonds with colleagues, and building purposeful relationships and networks, will contribute to wellbeing, resilience and better business outcomes. Learn how to connect, build trust and apply key communication techniques to positively impact others and grow your professional networks.
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Communicating Financial Information with Impact
Online live, 1 September or 7 December
Information is abundant but not always useful – key conclusions and recommendations can get lost in high volumes of technical and complex data. This seminar will show you how to make your messages clear, convincing and powerful, helping you influence through information.
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Cyber Security – Protection Strategies for Your Business
Online live, 8 & 10 September or 1 & 3 December
This course offers a clear and accessible introduction to the complex world of cyber security. Grounded in real-world examples, the session delivers practical advice, actionable tips and expert recommendations to help participants enhance their digital safety and reduce the risk of future cyberthreats.
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Pension Scheme Accounts Following FRS 102 and SORP
Online live, 10 September or 2 December
This practical course provides a clear and comprehensive update on preparing pension scheme financial statements. With expert-led insights and practical illustrative examples, this course will strengthen confidence, ensure compliance and enhance the quality and clarity of pension scheme financial statements.
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VAT Refresher and Update
Online live, 14 September or 15 December
Stay compliant and confident with this practical course covering the core principles of VAT. From registration rules and key terms to partial exemption, property transactions, cross-border issues and special schemes, the session delivers the clarity needed to handle VAT effectively.
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For the full list of upcoming live CPD courses, please visit CPD training courses
SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSES
Budget vs Actual
Length: 1 hour
Budget for a business or project is typically agreed before the start of the financial period it covers. Then, as the period passes, the performance is compared with the original budget. This online course covers variance analysis, which is used to benchmark budget against actual performance in more detail.
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Analysing Strategic Success
Length: 1 hour
After developing a strategy with accounting input, it is important to assess whether the key elements have been successful in practice. This course considers some benchmarks and definitions that should help you fashion an appropriate and cost-effective set of measures to evaluate your performance.
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Risk Management – Intermediate
Length: 1 hour
This is an intermediate course covering the key types of risk and different approaches to risk management in firms. It provides hands-on tools and techniques to measure, manage and mitigate credit, liquidity, market and operational risks in line with firms’ risk appetite.
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Stress Management – Introduction
Length: 1 hour
This introduction to stress management acts as a foundation on which to build and will help you manage your stress from the outset. It identifies the most common signs and symptoms, and goes through the steps and techniques to help manage stress levels.
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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)
Budget vs Actual
Length: 1 hour
Budget for a business or project is typically agreed before the start of the financial period it covers. Then, as the period passes, the performance is compared with the original budget. This online course covers variance analysis, which is used to benchmark budget against actual performance in more detail.
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Analysing Strategic Success
Length: 1 hour
After developing a strategy with accounting input, it is important to assess whether the key elements have been successful in practice. This course considers some benchmarks and definitions that should help you fashion an appropriate and cost-effective set of measures to evaluate your performance.
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Risk Management – Intermediate
Length: 1 hour
This is an intermediate course covering the key types of risk and different approaches to risk management in firms. It provides hands-on tools and techniques to measure, manage and mitigate credit, liquidity, market and operational risks in line with firms’ risk appetite.
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Stress Management – Introduction
Length: 1 hour
This introduction to stress management acts as a foundation on which to build and will help you manage your stress from the outset. It identifies the most common signs and symptoms, and goes through the steps and techniques to help manage stress levels.
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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)
