COURSES

Assertiveness: An introduction  

Online live, 16 September or 5 December

Becoming more assertive can improve your confidence, enhance your self-esteem and increase your ability to deal with difficult people and stressful situations. It can also make you happier, healthier and more professional – find out how with this practical and interactive course.

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Mergers and Acquisitions

Online live, 25–26 September
London, 4–5 December

This course is designed for those involved in buying or selling public or private UK companies, whether as principals or advisers, and examines the main processes and issues involved. No prior M&A experience is required, although it assumes an understanding of corporate financial statements.

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Quality Management in
an Audit Engagement

Edinburgh, 26 September
Online live, 4 December

The audit market is under pressure following a number of high-profile corporate failures, and audit quality will continue to be an area of scrutiny for regulators. This course focuses on current audit quality issues and the actions required to achieve an improvement.

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CFO of the Future 3: Cost and profitability analysis workshop

Online live, 9 October

Learn how to see beyond budgets and accounting statements to find where the cost reduction and profit-making opportunities are. This involves learning new practices and techniques, including “lean practice” and “process mapping” and the power of “transparent information”.

Charity Financial Reporting Update

Online live, 20 September or 5 December

This course provides an update on accounting issues and contemporary developments to help finance professionals effectively manage a charity’s operations and finances. Tricky accounting areas are highlighted, along with the ways charities can prepare themselves for an increasingly unpredictable world.

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UK Taxation of Groups

Online live, 25 September or 19 December

This course explains how UK direct tax law applies to groups of companies, from the small and family-owned to large public companies. It will be of benefit to accountants and advisers involved with managing and planning the affairs of such groups. 

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Communicating Financial Information with Impact  

Online live, 30 September
London, 6 December

Information is abundant, but not always useful – key conclusions and recommendations can be lost in high volumes of complex, technical data. This seminar will show you how to engage and influence by presenting information in a clear and convincing manner.

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Financial modelling: Advanced (and introduction to VBA)

Online live, 14–15 October

This two-day course is for those looking to expand their financial modelling skills. The course uses numerous hands-on practical Excel exercises 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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IFRS vs US GAAP

Length: 1 hour
This course provides an awareness of the financial reporting challenges for groups with component reporting under each of the two reporting frameworks. It includes useful context and a comparison of the two in terms of general reporting requirements and specific accounting treatments.

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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 threats in line with a firm’s risk appetite.

Implementing Strategy

Length: 1.5 hours
Evidence suggests that the implementation of strategic initiatives often fails to achieve the organisation’s desired outcomes. This course guides you through the implementation process, ensuring there are appropriate mechanisms to capture, manage and mitigate risk.

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Smarter Thinking, Smarter Working

Length: 1 hour 
If you want to get better results, you have to change the way you do things. This course is for accountants and other managers who want to know how to use both halves of their brain to think logically and strategically, and to gain a greater understanding of colleagues and clients.

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