Key Topics:
Join us for an insightful ACCA webinar where we'll cover essential topics, including:
- Protection from claims, PII and related issues when you're operating through an incorporated practice
- When the corporate veil can be pierced, and what that means when the director and the practitioner are the same person
- Directors' duties under the Companies Act, and how these apply day to day, not just in a crisis
- Personal exposure for Revenue debts, including PAYE, VAT and preferential creditor status if things go wrong
- How trading through a company affects membership and standing with professional bodies like Chartered Accountants Ireland or ACCA
- Restriction and disqualification of directors, and the effect this can have on a practising certificate
- Personal guarantees and what accountants should check before signing on behalf of their own practice
- What happens to client relationships, goodwill and restrictive covenants when ownership or structure changes
- The difference between reckless trading and fraudulent trading, and how this has been treated in recent cases
- What run off cover and PII actually protect against, and where the gaps often are
- Liquidation, what triggers it and what practitioners should expect if it happens
- Case studies from recent Irish cases, showing how these issues have played out in practice
