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At accountingcpd we help accountants grow by providing high quality CPD, that will genuinely make a difference to you in your career.
Whether you want to keep up to date with the latest changes and trends, develop new skills, or prepare yourself for the next job, accountingcpd has what you need to succeed.






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Over 1,000 hours of CPD to choose from. Keep up to date AND develop your professional skills with courses on a wide range of topics.
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Learn what you want, when and where you want to. From 15-minute CPD Bites, 4-hour courses, to longer-form structured diplomas and qualifications.
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The Resilient Finance Professional

Working in a finance and accounting environment often means facing a multitude of pressures. This course explores how you can overcome these stresses and complicated tasks by introducing you to the methods needed for becoming a more resilient leader and team member.
Excel for Accountants: Getting Started

Excel is a powerful calculation tool and record keeper, and is also a tool for reporting and analysing. This course is designed to take you through the features and functions available. Enhance your knowledge of navigating an Excel workbook, formatting data, and more.
Expenses and Benefits

Revised and up to date for 2022/23. This course provides an overview of the tax rules relating to expenses and benefits. It also help you identify when employers can make tax- and NIC-free payments to employees and the obligations involved.
Employment and Payroll Taxes

Revised and up to date for 2022/23. Employment and Payroll Taxes is a useful reference tool for both employers and employees. This course provides an introduction to employment and payroll tax and explores some of the more common issues.
2022 Update: Irish Tax

Learn about and understand all the key changes to personal, business, capital and indirect taxes. You will discover how these changes will impact yourself, your business and your clients, and how you can make sure that your knowledge and advice is up to date.
Data Analysis for Accountants: Statistics

This course explores the various ways you can use statistics and probability to enhance your role as an accounting and finance professional. Gain an understanding of basic probability functions and testing your hypotheses using Excel.
HMRC Enquiries and Investigations

Revised and up to date for 2022/23. Mistakes with HMRC enquiries and investigations can cost you more than just money. This course looks at how HMRC handle routine enquiries into self-assessment returns, through to full blown investigations into a taxpayer's affairs.
Financing Opportunities for SMEs

A growing range of finance opportunities for SMEs can make it difficult to decide which ones are right for you and your clients. This course takes a detailed look at a variety of financing options available for SMEs, including debt, working capital and equity funding.
Data Analysis for Accountants: Power BI

This course introduces you to Power BI, Microsoft's powerful data analysis tool, and how it can benefit you in your finance role. Transform the way you handle and analyse data, and create a range of interactive data visualisations.
Forecasting for Financial Managers

A faster rate of change in the business environment calls for a greater focus on looking forward. Discover the principles and practice of forecasting and how you can make the most of interpretative statistics, short-medium and long term forecasting, with this course.
Strategic Financial Management

Challenge your assumptions and think again about the role of accountancy in a constantly evolving world. Discover how the finance function can play a proactive role at a strategic level, focusing on the value of the business.
Reporting on an Uncertain Future

This course looks into how reporting can be adapted during times of uncertainty. It explores the changes to reporting requirements and how to keep business performance reporting accurate and relevant.
2021-22 Update: Finance Act 2021

The Finance Act 2021 introduces some notable changes and amendments to various areas of tax. This course provides an overview of the changes to keep you up to date with the latest amendments to rates, allowances, deductions and changes and extensions to numerous schemes.
Excel Skills Booster for Accountants

This course is a practical examination of what Excel can offer accountants. Become confident in using a range of fundamental and advanced Excel functions and features including conditional calculations and IF statements, lookups, tables, PivotTables and the new dynamic arrays.
Finance Function of the Future

This course looks at the strategic, forward-looking role of the finance function of the future. It explores the skills and actions that will be needed by financial leaders of the future.
Writing a Business Plan

This course will help you to create a well-constructed business plan that enables decision makers to better understand the potential project and helps you to ensure the idea and the finances make sense. Discover the role of the accountant in writing an effective business plan.
Improving Business Profits

This course takes a comprehensive look at how to improve profitability. Discover the processes necessary for enhancing revenue, optimising costs, eliminating waste and maximising assets and finance.
2021-22 Update: CFO Issues

As we emerge from the challenges of the last 18 months, it's time to build for the future. This course gives you, the finance leader, everything you need to make sense of the recent past and prepare for a successful future.
Narrative Reporting

Narrative reporting goes beyond the information in the financial statements, to provide a valuable overview of the company's performance and key risks. This course provides a detailed overview of narrative reporting and the practicalities of implementing it in your organisation.
Operational Cost Savings and Efficiencies

This course provides a framework to help you analyse your business's spending, consider where to best focus your resources, and review how to balance short-term cost reductions with longer-term business needs.
The Finance Business Partner

As a finance business partner, you need to have credibility and influence within the management team. This course looks at the finance business partner role, and how you can develop to take on this key strategic role in your or you clients' businesses.
2021-22 Update: IFRS

In the last year there have been many updates to and clarifications of IFRS, many as a result of the pandemic. Make sure you are up to date with all the key changes, updates and new guidance.
Risk Management

Risks can occur anywhere in an organisation, therefore, integrated and organisation-wide approaches to risk management are key to minimising negative consequences. This course provides an overview to the key elements, processes and approaches to successful risk management.
Business Turnaround

Most businesses, at some point, will face issues that bring into question their long-term survival. This course examines common warning signs and the actions you need to take to implement an effective business turnaround.
Ethics in the Workplace

In a world full of grey areas and thorny dilemmas, acting ethically is far from straightforward. This course explores the concept of ethics and the issues you face in the workplace. Discover how you can adjust your own behaviour and promote ethical practices in your workplace.
Corporate Ethics, Governance and Sustainability

Nowadays, stakeholders are looking for something more than a financially successful business. They want a business that is ethical, and sustainable. This course explores the key principles involved in ethics, sustainability, and governance and how your organisation can adopt them.
Preventing Financial Crime

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.
US GAAP: A Guide for Non-US GAAP Users

US GAAP is a key area of financial reporting, not only because the USA is the world's largest economy, but it's a framework used by many global corporations. Familiarise yourself with its principles, standards, and its comparisons with IFRS, in this course.
Forensic Accounting

This course introduces you to forensic accounting by giving you a level of knowledge and skill that will enable you to understand more about this role, identify fraud and plan appropriate investigations.
2021-22 Update: UK Tax

UK only. Familiarise yourself with the changes and legislation that the new tax year brings. Learn about the key updates in personal, business, capital, and indirect taxes, as well as the latest on Covid-19 support measures and Making Tax Digital.
Presenting Numerical Data

Explore how effective use of data can enable informed business decisions and win support for ideas. In this course, you'll discover how to express numerical data through visuals, analyse and interpret data and create persuasive business presentations.
R&D Tax Relief

This course has been updated for 2022/23. Gain an overview of the much underutilised scheme, R&D relief and tax credits. Learn to assess whether R&D is taking place, determine qualifying costs, and calculate and prepare successful claims for R&D relief on behalf of your clients.
Presentation Skills

Effective presentation skills are vital for sharing business information. This course helps you to plan, design and deliver an effective presentation that will connect with and engage your audience.
Communication for Professional Success

Effective communication is vital for any finance professional. This course will help you to improve your listening, speaking and writing skills and learn how to overcome common barriers so you can successfully communicate in a range of professional contexts.
Creativity for Finance Professionals

Successfully dealing with a constantly changing environment requires creativity. But what does that mean for a finance professional? This course introduces you to the key skills, tools, strategies, and processes for enhancing creativity in your workplace.
Advanced Excel Formulas for Accountants

This course explores Excel's advanced functions and how you can apply them in your finance work. Learn how to calculate future value, carry out one and two variable analysis, use reference functions, create dynamic ranges and more, in this course.
Problem Solving for Accountants

This course will help you to develop one of the key skills of the accountant of the future. Learn how to establish the root causes of problems and master a variety of problem-solving techniques to help you develop, propose and implement effective solutions for your organisation.
Managing Conflict

This course will help you recognise conflict through understanding the associated behaviours and emotions. Discover various mechanisms, strategies, and emotional management techniques you can use to successfully overcome conflict in your finance team.
Creating Dashboards in Excel

Dashboards are useful for presenting complex information in a more user-friendly way. This course will guide you through the fundamentals of creating dashboards in Excel, enabling you to produce professional charts and interactive visualisations that will inform users.
Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is vital for developing meaningful professional relationships. This course helps you develop your EI skills by exploring what EI involves and the role it plays in understanding emotions and building rapport to develop stronger relationships.
Negotiation Skills for Accountants

Negotiation is crucial for every finance professional and takes place in the context of important long-term business relationships. Prepare yourself for effective negotiations so you can achieve your desired outcome, without undermining relationships you value.
Making Monthly Reports Worth Reading

World class finance functions produce monthly reports that managers actually read. This course will enable you to delight your audience by setting clear objectives, creating compelling visuals and creating monthly reports that drive business improvement.
Corporate Financial Modelling: Building Forecasts and Cash Flows

Using a real life Excel example, this course takes you through a process where you can learn how to develop forecasts and perform financial analysis. It leads you through a series of steps required to create your own model.
Corporate Financial Modelling: Setting up Financial Models

This course provides an introduction to applied financial modelling and shows you how to design, develop and build corporate financial models. It demonstrates the benefits of solid model planning and design, and how to build models in accordance with international best practice.
Valuation

This course introduces valuation processes and provides an overview of the main valuation methods. Including exploring the use of multiples, cash flow discounting, target returns, balance sheet methods and value creation.
Due Diligence in Mergers and Acquisitions

Buying and selling a business can be a risky step to undertake - this course helps you master due diligence, reduce risk and improve your chances of a successful transaction.
Over 1,000 hours of online CPD on a wide range of accounting topics.