Corporate Accountants' Updating Programme

Financial Reporting – Update And Refresher Part One
 
At last! A course that doesn’t concentrate on the standards that have just been issued, but looks back at the earliest standards that are still in issue – including the remaining SSAPs and early FRSs – and concentrates on practical problems concerning their application.

What will I get out of it?
• opportunity to look back at existing accounting standards and learn from the mistakes made by others
• practical case studies to illustrate the way these standards should be applied.

Financial Reporting – Update And Refresher Part Two

This seminar looks back at some of the existing standards and concentrates on practical problems concerning their application. In addition, delegates will look at the latest standards to have been issued, including the first international standards to be issued ‘in UK covers’.

What will I get out of it?
• opportunity to look back at existing accounting standards and learn from the mistakes made by others
• case studies to illustrate the way these standards should be applied.

Lecturers
Charles Gubbins BSc CAAssociate, Kaplan Financial,Guy Loveday BSc (Econ) FCA Partner, Professional Training Partnership

Value Management – Fact Or Fantasy?

We know that managers and investors can be obsessed with short term results, including focusing on next quarter’s results. This failure to invest in long-term growth and the corporate scandals that have grabbed headlines further suggest scant regard has been paid to value creation principles. Executives have been seen to destroy the value they are supposed to be creating yet almost always claim that short-term investor and stock market pressure made them do it. The reality is that the principles of building shareholder value have not failed management but that management have betrayed those principles. The role of the accountant in promoting and policing those principles is paramount in ensuring success.

What will I get out of it?
• understanding of how value is created and destroyed and guiding management principles
• recognition of both shareholder and stakeholder expectations and the management of conflicts between them
• understanding of long run models of value creation
• identification of internal and external key measures of value.

Staying Competitive In An Uncertain Environment

This century has seen an explosion in competitiveness in almost every business sector. Uncertainty is at an all-time high, driven by economic upheavals, corporate scandals and large scale geo-political factors such as the energy and credit crunches. All this presents a huge challenge to the managers of a modern enterprise, and in turn produces pressure to be number one. This seminar examines essential principles of management, and the role of the accountant in their adoption.

What will I get out of it?
• practical management framework to mitigate the effects of uncertainty and competition
• understanding of today’s accountant as the bridge between strategy, planning and effective action.

Lecturer
John McKenzie MBA,Independent Consultant

Employee Tax Update

This seminar will bring you up-to-date with all the major recent developments and improve your general knowledge of tax law and practice for employees and directors.
What will I get out of it?

• update on recent developments
• reminder of the key areas of employee taxes
• planning points arising from recent changes
• understanding of current topical issues.

Business and Corporate Taxes Update

This seminar will bring you up-to-date with all the major recent developments and improve your general corporate and business taxation knowledge.

What will I get out of it?
• update on recent developments
• reminder of the key areas of corporate and business taxes
• planning points arising from recent changes
• understanding of current topical issues.

Lecturer
Russell Cockburn BSc (Hons) AFTA Tax Consultant, Lecturer and Author, former Inspector of Taxes, Member Bluebell House Consultants LLP

Dates And Location
6 – 8 October (09.30 – 17.30), Cardiff
9 – 11 November (09.30 – 17.30), London
24 – 26 November (09.30 – 17.30), Manchester
1 – 3 December (09.30 – 17.30), Edinburgh

CPD Units 4 per Session

London - ACCA