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This course explores key current issues in auditing. It looks at control and risk factors key to understanding an entity, examines ISA 320's approach to calculating materiality, explores the IAASB’s targeted revisions proposed for ISA 570 Going Concern and considers an auditor's responsibilities when using the work of an expert.

Critical thinking is becoming increasingly important for accountants, as businesses look to you to provide insight, analysis and proposals to improve your, or your clients’ business. This course explores critical thinking techniques and provides practical advice on how to use them to benefit the organisations you work with.

Economic concepts can help us to make better decisions. This course will challenge and develop the way you think about pricing, strategy, investment appraisal and customer relationships.

This course shares best-practice guidance about hybrid working for individuals, teams, and managers. From running hybrid meetings to recruitment and team management, you'll explore the skills and tools that enable you and your team to work at your best no matter where you are.

This course covers recent updates and improvements to Excel, including the latest tools to help you handle data, details of formula enhancements, an introduction to the GROUPBY, PIVOTBY, and PERCENTOF functions, as well as some uses for the generative AI powers of Excel’s Copilot.

Financial modelling is an invaluable skill for accountants but in the wrong hands, models can be confusing and misleading. This course will enable you to build models to plan for the future, and to anticipate and react to uncertainty and change.

Understand the various types of financial crime and the controls that can be used to limit the opportunities for fraudsters to commit them. Look at how to create the right culture within an organisation to discourage collusion in fraud and encourage reporting and disclosure.

This course explains how to build and operate spreadsheets for forecasting, planning and business models. It's a practical guide, which takes a step-by-step approach to building, utilising and maintaining models.

The world has transformed at lightning speed in recent years. This course reviews the key headlines, developments and trends of the past year, to help you understand the implications for the profession, and plan your response.

As a finance professional you use Excel to analyse data, but how often do you overlook Excel's useful features? This course looks at basic and advanced features of Excel's PivotTable tool as well as PowerPivot and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).

Presenting group activity as a single entity requires a methodical approach. It is a complex process, changing with group size and status, and getting the consolidated financial statements right can be a challenge. This course explores the issues and assesses the risks and responsibilities of a group audit.

Building your professional credibility is important in order to be seen as knowledgeable, fair and dependable. Understand how you can do this, with practical steps covering business acumen, professional scepticism, ethics, communication and your authoritative voice.

Generative AI is the next big thing, but is it really all it's cracked up to be? This course will cut through the hype and explain where generative AI shines, where it stumbles, and how to work alongside it rather than be replaced by it.

Are you ready to embrace the future of accounting with AI? Artificial intelligence is reshaping how accountants strategise, predict, and advise. This course will help you to get to grips with the growth of AI and what it means for the profession and to develop the tools you need to use AI effectively.

Hear from the experts and use their insights to help you add value in your organisation and get inspired. Our video interviews with leaders who've made their mark on our profession cover everything from AI and advanced data analytics to diversity, wellbeing and leadership and more.

Mental health issues affect more than half of all accountants and account for the majority of days lost due to ill health. This course offers practical ways to help us maintain our own mental health and help to create a happy and accepting work environment.

What is a world-class finance function, and why should you want to create one in your workplace? This course will help you to implement best practice in finance and accounting to optimise quality and efficiency, and to provide the best possible service to your stakeholders.

AI is transforming how we work, offering unprecedented efficiency and insights, but also significant ethical challenges. How do we ensure AI operates fairly, transparently, and in alignment with professional standards? Find out how to harness AI responsibly while upholding the integrity and trust central to the accounting profession.

How do you make sure a report communicates effectively and tells the right story? Maximise the impact of your reports with practical tips and guidance.

Getting monthly reporting right is key in any business. This course ensures you are creating timely, relevant, reliable, and understandable monthly reports that meet user needs and significantly increase the chances of business success.

This course explores the delicate balancing act of cash management. It covers controlling cash flows, monitoring liquidity, detecting fraud, and fostering a culture that focuses on cash.

World class finance functions produce monthly reports that managers actually read. This course enables you to delight your audience by setting clear objectives, creating compelling visuals and creating monthly reports that drive business improvement.

AI technology is already able to enhance, improve and administer many finance functions, so the time to adopt the appropriate AI tools into your working practices is now. This course looks at how to get your team on board and successfully integrate AI into your finance function.

This course covers recent updates to the IFRS reporting framework, including a brand new general standard, a post-implementation review of contract revenue recognition, an Exposure Draft covering financial instruments, and more.

Good corporate governance entails meeting standards of good practice in relation to board leadership and effectiveness, remuneration, accountability and relations with shareholders.

Businesses exist to make profits but, despite this, many businesses leak cash through poor credit management. This course looks at the benefits of a solid credit management department, and how you can maintain a robust system that keeps your organisation profitable and resilient.

People are worried about the effect AI could have on society. This course examines how businesses can construct trustworthy AI systems, operate them responsibly, and establish a robust governance framework to support ethical usage.

Ethics can be a grey area. This course uses case studies and scenarios to equip you with the necessary tools to recognise potential ethical dilemmas and determine the best approach to them, in line with the ethical framework you adhere to as an accountant.

It's easy to find yourself using Excel the same way for years at a time. This course concentrates on a range of practical and simple techniques that can make spreadsheets quicker to set up, easier for the user to use, more automated, and guard against career-threatening errors.

IFRS 18, the first new IFRS since 2017, is going to change the way you work. This course looks in detail at the key elements of this new standard and how it will impact you and the businesses that you work for.