This course will enable you to
- Navigate the current challenges and opportunities facing the accounting profession
- Consider how geopolitics and large scale economic events impact smaller organisations
- Understand the consequences of audit, accounting and business failures on jobs, markets and public trust
- Start to embrace AI, and its role in accountancy, safely and ethically
- Keep on top of changes in financial reporting including sustainability reporting and IFRS
About the course
2024 has been a whirlwind. The climate, AI, updated regulations, cybersecurity, remote working dynamics, and client expectations are all contributing to a changing and challenging accounting landscape.
This course reviews the key headlines, developments and trends of the past year, to help you understand the implications for the profession, and plan how to respond accordingly.
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Contents
- Challenges
- Key challenges for the profession
- How the year began
- Climate change: stormy days ahead
- Taxing times
- Insurance cost pressures
- Failures
- Why failures matter
- Evergrande: property under the microscope
- Geopolitics: China and the US
- H2O: a sorry state of affairs
- The Post Office scandal
- Financial crime: a risk-based approach
- Economics
- Economics and uncertainty
- Where the year started
- Inflation easing
- Elections, elections, elections
- Good and bad news
- Technology
- Productivity and making life easier
- Recent trends
- Accounting tools
- Klarna: generative AI in action
- Audit
- The importance of professional scepticism
- Growing audit complexity
- When things go wrong in the accounts
- The rise and rise of AI in audit
- Public practice certification
- Reporting
- The opportunities of change
- IFRS 18 makes its appearance
- Accounting for greenhouse gas emissions
- Sustainability standards: another step forward
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13 Jul 2025
13 Jul 2025
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03 Jul 2025
03 Jul 2025
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Gillian S
27 Dec 2024
27 Dec 2024
I really enjoyed this course. It recognised that most people are nervous when giving presentations and gave real strategies for dealing with that. I always like the format of a mix of videos and articles and the chance to see other people's ideas in the discussion topics. Although some theory is referred to, the course isn't bogged down in it and it allows you to go off and read around that if you want to. I learned a lot from this course.
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