CPD Courses
KPIs for Practices
Accountancy is a profession based on expertise and knowledge, so developing key performance indicators (KPIs) for a practice requires a particular approach. Whatever the size of your practice, this course will help you develop the right KPIs to improve performance.
Creating a World-Class Finance Function
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.
Beyond Dashboards: Telling a Story with Data
Not everyone can spot trends and concerns in data the way accountants can. To deliver a key message you often need to reframe data as a story, to engage people's emotions and steer them towards a desired outcome. This course will help you to build a story using creative techniques and keep your audience engaged.
Sustainable Finance
Sustainable finance is a hot topic, and it's making CEOs and directors turn to their accountants. This course looks at ways you can help businesses make financial decisions that prioritise sustainability and develop strategies and practices that tackle sustainability issues.
Measuring and Managing Your Carbon Performance
Consumers, employees and major investors are increasingly choosing climate friendly brands. This course explains how a rigorous approach to carbon performance management will enable you to measure your organisation's carbon emissions and understand how to manage and reduce your carbon footprint.
Agile Accounting and Business Planning
This course explores the fundamental principles of the Agile Manifesto and demonstrates how they can streamline your processes, without compromising quality or increasing risk. You will learn how to implement a framework that applies agile methodology to all your accounting practices, including month-end reporting, business planning, forecasting and decision making.
Making Monthly Reports Worth Reading
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.
Building a Spreadsheet Forecasting Model
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.
Financial Modelling: Business Simulation
Updated for 2024. Did you know Excel can be used to model potential business situations? In this course, you can learn the basics of business simulation in Excel, along with how to create financial models to aid decision making.
Lean Process Improvement
Lean centres on encouraging skilled and motivated people across the organisation to work together to improve the efficiency of processes. Understand the concepts at the heart of the lean philosophy, and consider its application within your organisation.