2 days (12 CPD Hours)
Who will benefit?
All levels of accountancy professionals in practice whose time is at a premium and who need to maximise their effectiveness and contribution by remaining regularly updated in a critical range of core accountancy and related subjects, in a time efficient manner.
How will you benefit?
Delegates will benefit from a two-day intensive course, involving practical experts, pre-eminent in their fields, delivering focused and structured presentations. These will cover the crucial changes which have taken place over the last year, as well as popular core subjects. These presentations will be supported by extensive and detailed handouts, the opportunity for questions, as well as excellent networking opportunities.
What does the course cover?
The course comprises distinct separate sessions:
The Law in Practice
A number of topics will be of particular practical importance to practitioners and their clients in 2007.
Company Law
The Company Law Reform Bill should be enacted, and the implications should be emerging. A summary will be provided of the main provisions of the Act of particular importance to small and medium sized businesses, and all relevant case law and commentary will be discussed.
Employment Law
New developments in the anti-discrimination provisions affecting practitioners and clients.
A number of the recent changes to the Disability Discrimination Act will be firmly embedded by 2007 and participants will be updated on recent cases and given guidance on dealing with sickness. The age discrimination regulations will be almost one year old, and any cases emerging will be fully discussed.
There will be an outline of the changes to family friendly rights, including increased maternity leave, coming into force in April 2007
Business Law
The final parts of the Data Protection Act comes into force in 2007, and it seems timely to remind practitioners of their responsibilities in relation to personal data, and update them on any new case law and on guidance from the Information Commissioner.
Fraud and Money Laundering
The presentation will cover the following areas
• Fraud – the risks, common types and indicators
• Methods of money laundering
• UK Legislation
• The Regulated Sector
• EU Directives on Money Laundering
• The Financial Action Task Force FATF
• Recent Developments
• Case studies
Business Tax Update
• What's new in business tax?
• Recent tax cases update
• Is is taxable?/Is it allowable? - some typical problems from the tax computation
• Tax Bulletins;what practitioners need to know
• Tax on UK rental income:issues for the small practitioner
VAT issues for the SME
• Schemes for small businesses
• Cars and other motor vehicles
• Bad debt relief and aged creditor provisions
• Sale and purchase of a business
• Sale and purchase of business premises
• Topical international issues
Personal Tax Update
A detailed look at recent developments likely to affect accountants in practice, with concentration on the planning opportunities and avoiding pitfalls. Topics covered will include:
• using the pension scheme regime
• developments in car benefits
• personal tax planning with trusts
• CGT planning
• anti-avoidance update
• tax-efficient investments
• employment tax update
• IHT mitigation
Tax Investigations and Enquiries
This lecture will provide background information about the tax investigation and enquiry process using examples to provide an insight as to how different parts of the enquiry process might be approached by the Revenue – and managed by the professional advisor.
Areas covered:
• Selection and how to avoid it
• Opening of an enquiry
• Records
• Interviews
• Recomputation of profits
• Settlement
• Tactical pointers
Audit Update
This session will review the changes that have occurred in the auditing arena over the last 12 months and highlight the major issues relevant to your practice. Topics to be covered will include:
International Standards on Auditing
• What differences have the ISAs made to auditing?
• Things to look out for in applying the ISAs
• Further thoughts on risk - including the risk of fraud
Quality Standards and Practice Management:
• Reviewing the requirements of ISQC1
• Overview of the requirements of Practice Assurance
• Changes made by the APB Ethical Standards
Accounting Update
• UK GAAP
? Amendments to Companies Act 1985
? Convergence FRSs – planned migration to IFRS
? ASB work programme
? Operating & Financial Review and the Enhanced Directors Report requirements
• FRSSE
• IFRS
? Recent disclosures by quoted companies
? IASB work programme
? Convergence with US GAAP
List of events
|
Date |
Time |
Location |
Code |
Options |