Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

What makes a good audit senior?

For those with 2-3 years’ experience to help develop their audit skills.

Audit seniors need to develop excellent analytical and personal skills, as well as having good technical knowledge. This seminar, aimed at those with 2-3 years’ experience, will provide participants with a range of practical tools enabling them work effectively and efficiently in the audit field – and help develop their skills in managing audit juniors.

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Topics covered include:

• Key planning considerations – including understanding the entity, materiality and preliminary analytical review
• Performing risk assessments and how it impacts on audit testing
• Effective analytical procedures and key questioning skills
• Producing and critiquing evidence in more complicated areas of the audit
• Applying professional scepticism – how to question, and listen, effectively
• Reviewing the work of audit juniors and managing and coaching them appropriately

Who should attend the seminar?

• Seniors and staff in accounting firms with 2-3 years’ experience with an interest in auditing

Cost

Rate	Cost
ICAEW Member	£60.00 + VAT
Non-Member	£60.00 + VAT

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John Selwood’s hot accounting topics

An essential update for accountants in practice.

This course aims to keep your technical knowledge up to date in the changing environment for accountants in practice. It will include practical tips on how to navigate the changing regulatory environment.

Course Information

This is a topical session and its content will reflect that. It is likely to cover:

• Accounting for going concern
• Accounting for government grants – the difficult areas
• Changes to legal accounting frameworks
• When disclosure goes wrong
• Filing issues at Companies House

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£90.00 + VAT
ICAEW Member	£72.00 + VAT
Non-Member	£90.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£45.00 + VAT
Career Break Member	£45.00 + VAT

Northern Society is offering delegates a 1/3rd off all of its live webinars up to 31 December 2021. To activate the discount please use the following codes at the checkout:

Standard Ticket Price: NORTHERN30OFF

Career Break/Retired: NORTHERN15OFF

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What’s new for charities? with Peter Herbert

An essential update for accountants who prepare, audit or independently examine accounts for charities

Despite the fact that FRS 102 SORP is now well established, there still seems to be an abundance of new rules affecting charity annual reports and accounts.

Course information

This session will explain all the recent developments and also clarify existing rules in a number of common problem areas:

Content will include:

• Recent changes to UK GAAP, charity law and company law relevant to the preparation and independent examination of small charity accounts
• Common problem areas in charity accounts and how to tackle them
• Charity Commission and ICAEW regulatory reports and feedback
• Balancing effectiveness and efficiency when performing charity independent examinations

Who should attend the seminar?

Partners, managers and staff in accounting firms who prepare accounts for charities and carry out audits and independent examinations.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£90.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£45.00 + VAT
Career Break Member	£45.00 + VAT

 

Northern Society is offering delegates a 1/3rd off all of its live webinars up to 31 December 2021. 

The discount will apply automatically at checkout. 

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Acting for Farmers – a comprehensive review with David Missen and Bob Trunchion

An essential update for those with farming clients

Are we about to see an agricultural revolution, either a brave new post-brexit world or the end of UK agriculture as we know it? This intensive half day course will explore the challenges and issues faced by farming and rural communities and the solutions and opportunities available. It is aimed at keeping you up to date on what matters in this specialist sector and the advice your client needs.

Course Information

Topics:

• The state of UK Agriculture in 2021
• Subsidies and farm economics after the Agriculture Act
• Inheritance tax and capital gains tax refresher
• Structures, successions, trusts, Pensions, incorporation and other nitty gritty problems with HMRC etc.
• Capital Tax planning – the dos and don’ts
• Business & Agricultural Property – 100% relief, are you sure?
• Succession planning

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£90.00 + VAT
ICAEW Member	£90.00 + VAT
Non-Member	£90.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£45.00 + VAT
Career Break Member	£45.00 + VAT

Northern Society is offering delegates a 1/3^rd off all of its live webinars up to 31 December 2021.

Please note that the respective discount of £30.00 and £15.00 will automatically be applied to the checkout and will be dependent on the membership level of each delegate.

If you are currently on a career break or retired please ensure to answer the form question.

Discounted rate
Price: £60.00 + VAT
Retired/Career break: £30.00 + VAT

 

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Payroll update including Off Payroll working commencement

This course will update participants on all changes affecting payroll, expenses and benefits.

2021 sees the commencement of the off payroll working rules across the private sector, much delayed but due to commence on 6 April 2021.

Event information

There are changes to the rules already implemented for the public sector, and many organisations – both contractors and engagers will be meeting the rules for the first time. This course will update participants on all changes affecting payroll, expenses and benefits, and will follow with an in-depth look at the off payroll working rules commencing in April 2021.

The course will cover:

• Payroll tax changes – PAYE and NIC thresholds; changes affecting the basic operation of PAYE and NIC; Scottish and Welsh tax changes overview; minimum wage update
• Changes to taxation of benefits in kind in the last 12 months; future changes that have been announced; amendments to earlier changes
• Off-payroll working – an in depth study of all aspects of the rules as they affect contractors, agencies and end users. What is required? How will it affect businesses? What do contractors need to be aware of? What is the impact on the accounts of the PSC? What about CEST?

Cost

Rate	Cost
ICAEW Member	£90.00 + VAT
Non-Member	£90.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£45.00 + VAT
Career Break Member	£45.00 + VAT

Northern Society is offering delegates a 1/3rd off all of its live webinars up to 30 August 2021.

 

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Charities update with John Selwood

The course is an update covering the developments in Charity auditing and accounting.

The course covers all major recent changes and is suitable for accountants in practice and the charity’s accountant.

Event information

The course will cover:

• The latest Charity SORP and any hot accounting topics for charities
• Impact of the Charities Act 2011
• Problem audit areas
• Common disclosure errors
• A refresher on the external scrutiny regime
• Problems in reporting to the Charity Commission and whistleblowing
• Problems arising for different types of charity
• Accountants and audit reports
• New developments

If you attend both the morning and afternoon (Accounts update) course a light lunch will be served.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£90.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£45.00 + VAT
Career Break Member	£45.00 + VAT

The early bird rate will apply automatically at the checkout. Please note that the early bird rate ends 01 April 2020.

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What does Brexit really mean for you and your clients?

This course is aimed at equipping the practitioner in the North East with the right tools to deal with Brexit whether their clients are directly affected or not!

Whilst it is clear we will be leaving the EU, by the time of the Course, the position should be clearer and we should be in the process of negotiating free trade agreements. Initially this will be with just the EU but what about access to all those countries like Canada and Japan where we currently use the EU free trade agreements?

Event information

The course is not going to be a detailed analysis of customs duties but will look at what this will all mean for your clients (or you if you are in industry) in terms of what consequences will it have on margins and processes. Whilst few clients actually import or export directly, most will have items either in their supply chain or sales chain which mean that tariffs could indirectly hit them. Clearly, we will look at direct exporters and importers and what they need to be doing. We will look at the VAT implications too!

We also need to think about the “quick fixes” on VAT which were brought in from 1 January 2020 by the EU which will hit our clients who are already trading in the EU.

However, we need to look at some of the many other aspects – from immigration proposals – what will that do to labour supplies, to “should we incorporate any operations abroad”, “will us leaving the EU affect dividends and royalties”, and “what about EU adopted IFRS”?

The course also needs to look at what a client ought to think about if they are thinking of expanding and therefore of setting up abroad.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£90.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£45.00 + VAT
Career Break Member	£45.00 + VAT

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Redworth 2020 General Practitioners’ Conference

Join us for our annual conference for interesting lectures and networking.

The weekend is a great opportunity to gain valuable CPD at a competitive price. Over the weekend you will receive the equivalent of four half-day courses. It is aimed at partners, managers, and seniors in independent practices.

As well as hearing from our expert lecturers you will have the chance to connect with them and other practitioners throughout the weekend.

Conference information

Many of the topics have been suggested by delegates who have attended previous Redworth conferences as well as the NorSCA CPD programme. Also, Rebecca Benneyworth will answer delegates’ specific tax questions in her popular “Rebecca on Request” slot on Sunday morning. You can be sure that the conference will meet your business and professional needs, as well as those of your staff.

As well as the lectures there is an excellent social aspect to the weekend, with delegates and speakers mingling during the free periods. You can benefit from lots of advice from the speakers, as well as comparing notes with other practitioners.

Spouses/partners of delegates are more than welcome to attend on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis.

Topics include:

• Tax updates
• Accounting updates
• Employment Law
• Rebecca on request
• CABA – Networking
• The real world of financial crime
• Picking winners

Cost

RATE	COST
Residential delegate – early bird	£205.00 + VAT
Residential delegate – standard	£225.00 + VAT
Non-residential delegate – early bird	£250.00 + VAT
Non-residential delegate – standard	£270.00 + VAT

Early bird rates valid until 30 November 2019.

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Solicitors’ Accounts Rules – Update

This course will be of benefit to anyone advising solicitors in practice, including those involved in the work of reporting accountants under Solicitors Regulatory Authority’s Accounts Rules.

The course will focus on the changes to the SRA’s Accounts Rules and the issues involved. It will ensure delegates are aware of the recent and anticipated changes in enough detail for them to be able to implement the changes as well as converse confidently with their clients about the changes and their impact.

Course information

We aim the course at those who are experienced in dealing with solicitor clients and acting as reporting accountants. At the end of the course, delegates can:

• Appreciate the recent and expected changes made to the Rules
• Demonstrate an awareness of the regulatory changes effecting solicitors in practice
• Understand the commercial outlook for the legal profession.

Content
The exact content might change depending on technical issues that arise before the course, but we expect the material to include:

Introduction

• Update on recent changes, including ICAEW authorisation of legal services
• Changes to the SRA Accounts Rules, including:
  – the use of third-party-managed accounts
  – the Transparency Rules
• Areas of risk
• Solicitors and money laundering cases
• Recent disciplinary cases involving Accountants and the Accounts Rules
• Recent SAR Disciplinary Tribunal Cases
• Other news and future changes to the Rules
• Current performance and outlook for the sector

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£75.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£37.50 + VAT
Career Break Member	£37.50 + VAT

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The Compliant Practitioner

This course will be of benefit to everyone in an accountancy practice responsible for the firm’s compliance with professional standards.

You will gain confidence that you are keeping on top of your compliance obligations. You will have the opportunity of asking questions of our expert and well informed speaker.

Course information

The course content is necessarily a response to changes in practice regulations and recent changes. However, it will typically include:

Practice administration issues – drawing on feedback from the professional bodies. It will typically include:

• Practice communications
• Regulatory compliance – review of the implementation of The General Data Protection

Regulations, and, the revised anti money laundering regulations:

• Professional Indemnity Insurance
• Dealing with client money

Risk management and client service – looking at practical aspects of servicing clients while ensuring the firm is not exposed to unexpected risks and will typically include:

• Topical engagement/ disengagement issues
• Topical reporting issues, including certificates and other confirmations
• Recent professional guidance on risk management

Practical problems and issues – a review of recent technical changes (last 2-3 years), providing a refresher on the key points and examining their impact in practice

Disciplinary cases – a review of cases which contain lessons for us all

The course is a half day lecture. Delegates are encouraged to ask questions and share experiences for the benefits of others.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	£75.00 + VAT
Retired Member	£37.50 + VAT
Career Break Member	£37.50 + VAT

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