COURSES

Professional development

COURSES

Professional development

Better Forecasting and Budgeting  

Online live, 17 November 2025 or 7 April 2026

This course teaches budgeting and forecasting methods designed to help organisations grow. It explores the limitations of traditional approaches to both, explains why the two must be kept apart, and how rolling forecasts can be a useful tool in the drive for growth.

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Enhance Your Finance Business Partner Skills  

Online live, 18 November 2025 or 9 April 2026

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

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Auditing Standards: Update and Issues 

Online live, 24 November 2025 or 17 February 2026

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

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Valuation Techniques
(with Valuation Modelling)

Edinburgh, 25–26 November
London, 16–17 December 2025 or 18–19 February 2026

This course aims to provide you with an understanding of the practical uses of different valuation methodologies, together with hands-on experience of applying them in practice. The session has a particular focus on the professional and credible presentation of your work in real-life scenarios.

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VAT Refresher and Update

Online live, 2 December 2025 or 26 March 2026

This one-day course provides a reminder of the fundamentals of UK VAT, an update on recent developments, and examples of typical problem areas and planning opportunities. It uses many examples to show how the tax works and highlights planning points.

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Pension Scheme Accounts Following FRS 102 and SORP 

Online live, 12 December 2025 or 8 May 2026

Pension scheme accounting has been subject to change. This course considers its accounting under FRS 102 and the Statement of Recommended Practice, along with the fair value and disclosure of scheme investments. It includes a Q&A session.

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Mastering the FRS 102 Second Review: Your 2026 Roadmap

Online live, 10 December 2025
London, 27 February 2026

This essential course for those involved in the preparation and audit of financial statements prepared under FRS 102 or FRS 105 considers the reasons for the changes introduced, the detail of the significant changes, and examines the transitional arrangements for adoption of the revised standard.

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Cradle to Grave – Tax Planning for Individuals and Families

Online live, 17 December 

This practical course reviews the latest tax-planning opportunities for individuals and families, including civil partners and same-sex marriage spouses, and gives topical ideas on how to minimise the tax bill through life. It covers income tax, CGT, IHT and relevant business tax issues.

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For more information or to book course titles, email our training partner BPP at ldicas@bpp.com or call 0330 060 3303

SELF-PACED ONLINE COURSES

Adding Value from Finance

Length: 1 hour
This course gives you a clear understanding of the measurement of financial value, how it is generated from strategic initiatives and pricing spend management, and how the finance team can contribute to building value.

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Delegation for Success

Length: 1 hour
Skilful delegation is one of the most important management skills and yet it is notoriously difficult to crack. When done well, the benefits are huge for all concerned. This course helps you know when and how to delegate, who to delegate to, and to understand what stops you from delegating.

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Finance Partnering 10-pack

Length: 12.5 hours 
Changes in the economy have resulted in the development of the role of business partner, which requires a completely different skillset to that of the more traditional financial accountant role. This pack of 10 online courses will help you develop the skills needed.

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Forecasting and Budgeting Techniques with Excel   

Length: 1 hour
The course covers an insight into powerful and effective trending techniques for forecasting and budgeting. It includes industry-standard Excel models which can be applied with any business data easily and helps you identify ways to improve decision making in your organisation.  

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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)