Professional skills courses
The accountancy landscape is constantly evolving due to technical and regulatory updates, new technology, changing market demands, and ethical considerations. Our accounting updates CPD courses help you understand and adapt to this dynamic environment, ensuring you stay ahead in your profession.
Critical Thinking for Accountants
Critical thinking is becoming increasingly vital for accountants, as businesses depend on you to deliver insight, analysis, and proposals to improve your or your clients' business. This course examines critical thinking techniques and provides practical guidance on using them to benefit the organisations you work with.
Persuasive Writing
Being able to influence business conversations and strategic decisions, is an increasingly important skill for accountants. This course explains how to use the written word to get people on board with new ideas and innovative ways of thinking, and build deeper connections and networks with colleagues and clients.
The Trusted Business Advisor
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.
Career Progression Pathway: Expert Communicator
As an ambitious finance professional, clear communication is vital in propelling your career forward. This pathway explores best practice in communication, and how you can work more effectively with colleagues to persuade and influence people.
Project Management for Accountants
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.
Networking: Building Relationships With Purpose
Successful networkers think carefully about who they want to connect with. Building relationships and trust with a network of other professionals gives you access to valuable resources. This course guides you on building your own networking strategy that sparks new relationships.
Recruitment and Selection
Are you hiring the talent you need to build a great team of accountants? This course provides comprehensive guidance on the recruitment process, from the moment the need to hire occurs to extending a formal job offer. Discover how to identify candidates with the precise professional competencies, technical expertise, and personal attributes essential for your team's success.
Embracing and Driving Change
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.
Professional Scepticism
Regulators continue to highlight weaknesses in professional scepticism. This course equips accountants and auditors to apply scepticism confidently, particularly in judgement-heavy and fraud-risk areas.
Professional Credibility
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.