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This course examines what Excel can offer accountants. Become confident in using fundamental and advanced Excel functions and features including conditional calculations and IF statements, lookups, tables, PivotTables and dynamic arrays.

Financial modelling is one of the most highly valued skills of the finance professional. This course will help you to get started mastering that skill, by choosing the right approach, following the right processes and adhering to the relevant standards and guidelines.

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.

Accountants in practice are required to comply with some key UK regulations. This course gives you an insight into the UK's regulatory framework and how to follow it to help tackle money laundering, bribery, financial crime and data protection.

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.

Cyber security issues are becoming a day-to-day struggle for businesses and the management of these risks goes way beyond the IT department. In this course, explore your role in protecting your organisation from cyber threats through effective strategies, plans and resources.

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.

Audits are complex and there are never enough resources to go round. This course will help you to implement the newly revised ISA 315, addressing risk and materiality at each of the planning, execution, and reporting stages of an audit.

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.

As an accountant you will already manage projects. But by helping you understand professional project management tools and techniques, this course will take your project management skills to the next level.

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).

FSMA 2000 makes provision for the designation of certain professional bodies, whose member firms can take advantage of an exemption from the general prohibition of carrying on activities that are regulated by the FSMA.

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.

Discover how to comply with practice management regulations set by your professional body and come through practice monitoring or assurance visit. Exploring regulatory frameworks, non-compliance sanctions, client onboarding and offboarding procedures, and CPD management.

When looking towards the future of finance, it's important to understand the role of emerging digital innovations. This course explores the changing technological landscape and the specific innovations that are transforming the role of the accountant and the processes you use.

This course provides guidance on developing an attitude of professional scepticism with examples demonstrating the significance of judgement in financial accounting. Discover why being sceptical is described by the IAASB as the personal and professional responsibility of every accountant.

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.

Integrated Reporting provides the ideal framework for creating a sustainable relationship with all stakeholders. This course gives you a clear overview of the Integrated Reporting Framework, and practical advice on its application.

This course provides a detailed overview of international auditing. It will enable you to discover the latest updates in the area, the various impacts of Covid-19 and the key points to remember when obtaining auditing evidence and finalising audits.

Are you hiring the talent you need to build a great team of accountants? This course offers helpful guidance on the hiring process, from the moment the need to hire occurs until the job offer is made. Discover how to find candidates with the right combination of skills, experience, and attributes.

This course looks at the various implications of accounting for such issues which are covered by a number of IFRS Standards such as business combinations, separate financial statements and disclosures of interests in other entities.

In a world where change is becoming an essential part of improving our processes it's important to know how to anticipate, embrace and talk about it. Discover how to effectively get ready for change as well as how to use it as a strategic tool to help you exploit opportunities.

Effective communication is vital for any finance professional. Improve your listening, speaking and writing skills with this course and learn how to overcome common barriers so you can successfully communicate in a range of professional contexts.

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

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.

This course teaches what it means to have a strategy, and how you can play a part in forming, implementing and monitoring a strategy in your organisation. Learn to analyse trends; set targets and what tactics you can use for successful strategies.

As a finance business partner, you need 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 strategic role in your or you clients' businesses.

These days your clients are looking for more from their accountants, they want a trusted business advisor. This course looks at the processes, steps and technology that enable you to understand your clients' businesses, build stronger relationships and add real value.

Revised and up to date for 2023/24. Self-assessment for individuals affects a lot of people, so it is a hugely important area of taxation. This course provides a detailed overview of self-assessment for individuals.

Accountants in practice frequently face morally complex situations that leave you questioning the correct action to take. This course explores common ethical grey areas, when to apply professional judgement to your decisions and how your practice can maintain an ethical culture.

As a reporting accountant working for a solicitor, you need to understand and comply with the SRA Accounts Rules. This course aims to simplify these rules and give you the confidence to accept an engagement and fulfil your obligations.

This course examines the major global trends that accountants should be aware of for 2022-23. By undertaking a PEST analysis, you'll recognise the risks and opportunities they present, so you can advise your organisation on how it might respond to its current environment.

Discover ways that as an accountant, you can take the lead in becoming a potential force for good in a business. Explore how to develop a growth mindset that will transform relationships and how to foster a culture of accountability and transparency that supports business resilience and growth.

This course will take you beyond the basics of being a CFO and allow you to embody the leadership role. You will build your interpersonal skills so that you can positively influence your team and develop the behaviours of a well-respected leader. Begin today to develop a clearer vision for your career.

Charities have different financial statements, different laws governing them, and different aims and mission statements. This course demystifies the accounts of charities and ensure you are equipped to deal with the rules and regulations that apply.

Revised and up to date for 2023/24. This course will help you get to grips with the Making Tax Digital project, and the changes it is bringing. You will explore the latest timelines in place for businesses and individuals making the transformation, as well as the practicalities involved.

This course looks at the UK GAAP requirements for micro and small reporting entities. You'll examine the accounting and disclosure requirements and the wider implications and planning aspects, ensuring a smooth transition to a different regime.

Professional accountants are expected to work with a high level of skill and diligence. This course looks at what is needed to develop and maintain this excellence, from the team you assemble, the challenges of maintaining high standards and the rewards of good CPD.

Does your firm's audit work meet the requirements of the new ISQM Quality Management standards? This course examines each step required for creating audit reports and how applying the new International Standards on Quality Management ensures the standards for quality are met.