Courses

CFO of the Future 4: Flexible Planning and Rolling Forecast Workshop

Online live, 12 November 2024 or 15 April 2025

Learn how to break free from short-term targets and budgets and replace them with systems that enable an organisation to be more flexible. Using case studies, this workshop focuses on the importance of regular macroeconomic reviews, and designing and implementing true rolling forecasts.

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Income Tax Refresher and Update

Online live, 18 November 2024 or 8 May 2025

This course refreshes delegates on the fundamentals of income tax, including allowances, residence and domicile, property income, employment issues and some business tax issues. Examples are used to demonstrate typical income tax issues, and planning possibilities are discussed throughout.

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Accounting for and Auditing Groups

Online live, 21 November

The preparation of consolidated financial statements is a challenging task for accountants working in practice and industry. This seminar covers the basic accounting treatment for preparing these statements, including goodwill, with a practical approach to auditing in accordance with ISA 600.

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Enhance Your Finance Business Partner Skills

Online live, 21 November 2024 or 8 April 2025

There is currently a heightened sense of change and uncertainty for business and finance functions. This course equips you to reflect on and develop your finance business partner skills and covers a range of analysis tools, thinking styles, human approaches and business understanding.

Managing Risk in the Financial Services Industry

Online live, 22 November 2024 or 13 June 2025

This course explains the legal and compliance background to risk management in the financial services industry, before considering in a non-mathematical way the core principles and processes of managing risk. Case studies will be used to develop a comprehensive understanding of the subject.

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ESG: Sustainability Reporting

Online live, 28 November

The primary objective of the course is to enable delegates to assess the sustainability information that entities are – and increasingly will be – required to present. The course explores the basis and content of that information, and the steps that will be required to enable its preparation.

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Better Forecasting and Budgeting

Online live, 2 December 2024 or 1 April 2025

This course teaches budgeting and forecasting methods designed to help organisations to grow. It explores the limitations of traditional approaches to budgeting and forecasting, why forecasts and budgets must be kept apart, and how rolling forecasts can help to drive growth.

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Auditing Standards: Update and Issues

Online live, 4 December

This course provides an update on current issues and developments in the application of auditing standards and the issues arising in reviews of audit quality, including findings from ICAS. It also includes a Q&A session on current issues and sharing of experience.

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For a list of all upcoming live courses and to book, visit icas.com/cpd-courses

SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSES

Delegation for Success

Length: 1 hour
Skilful delegation is one of the most important management skills, yet it’s a notoriously difficult nut to crack. Done well, the benefits are huge for all concerned. This course helps you to know when and how to delegate, who to delegate to, and to recognise what prevents you from doing so.

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Machine Learning and the Future of Business

Length: 1 hour
The arrival of automation brings many positives, but possibly also negatives. This course provides an insight into how machine learning is influencing the business world, equipping you with an awareness of what the future holds and what we need to do to adapt and evolve.

Risk Management: Intermediate

Length: 1 hour
This is an intermediate course covering the key types of risk for a firm and the different approaches to its management. It provides hands-on tools and techniques to measure, manage and mitigate credit, liquidity and market and operational risk in line with a firm’s appetite.

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The Accounting Input for the Strategic Plan

Length: 1 hour
As accountants increasingly break away from the stereotypical image of “grey people in grey suits”, this course helps finance professionals enhance their strategic thinking ability, making them an invaluable part of the strategy development process.

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