6 CPD units | 133 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

The session will cover a selection of the following topics, incorporating any significant legal developments up to the date of delivery.

Company Law

• ECCTA news and implementation update

• revisiting directors duties, and the Post Office scandal - what does it teach us?

• the demise of the shareholder rule and its implications

• share classes - why do they matter?

• Forfeiture of shares – new case

• Registers of shares – the November changes

• Unfair prejudice – what do the new cases tell us?

Business Law

• Post termination restrictions, a reminder of how businesses can be protected and some new litigation

• TUPE developments

• Professional negligence update

• The Entertainer and the EOT

• Interesting contract developments

Employment Law

• Employment status including gig employment,, members of LLPs and recent IR35 developments

• Illegal working

• April and October 2025 changes

• Employment Rights Act update, what is happening in 2026?

• Payroll issues, including minimum wage, holidays, tips and gratuities latest

• Absence management in the light of SSP changes and generally

• Unlawful discrimination - recent developments, in particular changes to obligations on sexual harassment, situation following Supreme Court decision on gender, and disability issues

• Developments in unfair dismissal and redundancy

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9 CPD units | 300 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

A practical, hands-on training course designed to elevate your Excel expertise and transform the way you work with financial data. Whether you're preparing reports, analysing trends, or cleaning large datasets, this course equips you with the essential tools and techniques to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence.

Across three focused sessions, you'll build a strong foundation in Excel essentials, learn to automate data preparation with Power Query, and master powerful lookup formulas that streamline analysis and reporting.

You have the flexibility to register for individual sessions that best suit your needs or take advantage of a discounted rate by booking the full course.

Please refer to the schedule below to select and book specific sessions.

Session one: essential Excel for accountants and analysts

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025
Time: 09:30-12:30

Session two: data cleaning and automation with power query

Date: Thursday 13 November 2025
Time: 13:30-16:30

Session three: mastering lookup formulas in modern excel

Date: Friday 14 November 2025
Time: 09:30-12:30

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12 CPD units | 429 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

The Corporate Accountants Update Programme (CAUP) is delivered across four focused sessions, offering a cost-effective way to stay up to date with the latest technical developments.

You have the flexibility to register for individual sessions or take advantage of a discounted rate by booking the full series.

Please refer to the schedule below to select and book specific sessions.

Employment and personal taxes update
Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Time: 09.30-12:30
Lecturer: Russell Cockburn

Business and corporate taxes update
Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Time: 13.30-16:30
Lecturer: Russell Cockburn

Changes to FRS 102
Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 09.30-12:30
Lecturer: Guy Loveday

Common problem in applying FRS 102
Date: Friday 21 November 2025
Time: 13:30-16:30
Lecturer: Guy Loveday

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6 CPD units | 269 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

Economic and business uncertainty, rapid rates of change in technology, shifts in trends and needs and fierce competition all conspire to create an ever more challenging business environment. Traditional planning, budgetary and forecasting processes struggle to cope well in this environment often evidenced by the effort expended on (and frequency of) re-forecasting and planning revisions. This course examines the underlying causes of budgetary and forecast difficulties and considers more advanced planning and forecasting techniques and alternative budgetary processes and methodologies more fit for today’s challenges.

Key features:

• Planning for uncertainties and instabilities in the business environment
• Taking account of what’s not in our control: external macroeconomic and political impacts and competition
• Development of robust planning frameworks
• Substituting science for guesswork - statistical and non-statistical techniques to improve forecast and planning accuracy
• Difficulties we encounter in budgeting: management disaffection, lack of transparency, constant reforecasting and forecast error.
• Alternatives approaches – Scenario Planning, Rolling forecasts, Driver-based, Activity-based and Output budgets

What will I get out of the session?

An understanding of the key (and sometimes hidden) pressures on planning, budgeting and forecasting; gaining an understanding of alternative processes and techniques that bring more transparency and predictive capability and are management friendly and involving , all to address the limitations of traditional approaches; binding the budget, the business plan and our strategy more tightly and in alignment.

Who should attend?

Finance Directors, senior finance and management personnel and any staffs involved in business planning processes

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6 CPD units | 269 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

Great finance leaders see beyond the day-to-day accounting routines and become a change leader who can transform finance into a best-in-class operation and drive change throughout the business by providing valuable insights to managers. A strong finance leader will create clarity of vision for the function and focus on building high-energy teams with the skills and attributes to add value and to create an environment which is seen as an aspirational place to work.

Key features

• What makes a great finance leader

• Creating a vision and road map for finance, setting direction and aspirations

• Making sound decisions, avoiding the judgment trap caused by inherent and cognitive biases

• Understanding the end-to-end business

• Improving finance efficiency, reducing low-value-added work, increasing quality and freeing time to concentrate on value-added activity

• Building a great team and knowing their strengths, skills and attributes

• Understanding what managers want and need - turning finance into a valued and trusted partner, more responsive to management needs

• Developing goals and action plans for finance and to measure performance progress

What will I get out of it?

Understanding how the role of finance is evolving towards a greater focus on adding more value through a more partnered approach and insightful reporting, and of the key role the finance leader holds in driving change and transformation within both the function and the wider business.

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3 CPD units | 133 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

The UK Government, of whatever party, in line with most other governments around the world, continues to attempt to rein in some of the more adventurous tax avoidance with increased rules, especially for international companies and groups; some of these changes also affect smaller companies.

This session covers some of the fundamentals of Corporation Tax as well as some of the new rules for multinationals.

Key Features

• Recent developments

• Update on latest changes

• Review of corporate taxation.
• Comment and news from the corporate tax world.

Who should attend:

People working in Corporation Tax compliance and planning as well as those working within companies, will benefit from this session.

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6 CPD units | 269 GBP plus VAT

Overview 

Most key information flows pass through the finance function. Yet reporting by finance is primarily directed towards financial outcomes (representing a snapshot in time) rather than non-financial business drivers of those outcomes along with trends, causal factors and recommended remedial actions. Effective management decisions can only be taken, not as a “kneejerk” reaction to the financial outcomes, but by understanding and managing the non-financial drivers of them. This course looks at how the finance function can add huge value through more intelligent measurement and reporting.

Key features

• What makes a performance measure great? - Turning Management Information into Management Intelligence
• What do managers want and need in reporting?
• Having a cause and effect understanding of key business drivers and the resultant financial outcomes
• Combining financial and non-financial measures – scorecards and dashboards
• Ensuring coherence of measures and avoiding unintended consequences
• Identifying and overcoming organisational and human barriers to effective measurement

Who should attend?

Finance directors, financial controllers, finance analysts and any finance staffs whose responsibilities bring them into contact with reporting and/or performance measurement.

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