Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.

The ability to effectively work with and influence business partners and clients is dependent on good quality relationships, which are in turn built on trust.

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This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft, where he business partnered and influenced executives on a $4.5BN P&L.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	No Charge

Further events in the programme

Date	Time	Event
20 Jan 2022	12.30-13.30	Career management – getting promoted, moving from practice to industry & developing new skills
17 Feb 2022	12.30-13.30	Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across
17 Mar 2022	12.30-13.30	Influencing skills – build trust to influence
07 Apr 2022	12.30-13.30	Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling
26 May 2022	12.30-13.30	Get productive with Microsoft Office
23 Jun 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager series: First time manager skills
14 Jul 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers
11 Aug 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

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3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers

A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.

The ability to effectively work with and influence business partners and clients is dependent on good quality relationships, which are in turn built on trust.

Event Information

 

This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft, where he business partnered and influenced executives on a $4.5BN P&L.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	No Charge

Further events in the programme

Date	Time	Event
20 Jan 2022	12.30-13.30	Career management – getting promoted, moving from practice to industry & developing new skills
17 Feb 2022	12.30-13.30	Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across
17 Mar 2022	12.30-13.30	Influencing skills – build trust to influence
07 Apr 2022	12.30-13.30	Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling
26 May 2022	12.30-13.30	Get productive with Microsoft Office
23 Jun 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager series: First time manager skills
14 Jul 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers
11 Aug 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

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3-part manager mini-series: First time manager skills

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Get productive with Microsoft Office – Teams, OneNote, SharePoint and Planner

A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.

In a rapidly evolving world of technology in finance, Microsoft Office – now Microsoft 365 – offers a range of productivity tools that most of us use in our daily work. The ability to make the most of the features of these tools will impact our effectiveness at getting things done.

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In this session, attendees will understand why effectively using Microsoft 365 matters, how to make the most of Teams for collaboration, how OneNote can help transform team work and what SharePoint, Planner and Power Automate can do for our productivity.

This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft, where as part of the Microsoft Modern Workplace finance team, he partnered product leaders to help develop the tools we use on a daily basis.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	No Charge

Further events in the programme

Date	Time	Event
20 Jan 2022	12.30-13.30	Career management – getting promoted, moving from practice to industry & developing new skills
17 Feb 2022	12.30-13.30	Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across
17 Mar 2022	12.30-13.30	Influencing skills – build trust to influence
07 Apr 2022	12.30-13.30	Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling
26 May 2022	12.30-13.30	Get productive with Microsoft Office
23 Jun 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager series: First time manager skills
14 Jul 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers
11 Aug 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

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Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling

A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.

Communication is a critical skill for increasing the impact of our work, whether in industry or practice. The ability to partner with our teams, business partners and clients will determine our effectiveness in our roles as finance professionals.

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In this session, attendees will understand what great communication looks like. We’ll discuss how the quality of our questions and how we listen can improve relationships and business impact. We’ll cover how selling rather than telling can improve our influence, and think through how the language we choose can alter outcomes.

This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft, where he business partnered and influenced executives on a $4.5BN P&L.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	No Charge

Further events in the programme

Date	Time	Event
20 Jan 2022	12.30-13.30	Career management – getting promoted, moving from practice to industry & developing new skills
17 Feb 2022	12.30-13.30	Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across
17 Mar 2022	12.30-13.30	Influencing skills – build trust to influence
07 Apr 2022	12.30-13.30	Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling
26 May 2022	12.30-13.30	Get productive with Microsoft Office
23 Jun 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager series: First time manager skills
14 Jul 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers
11 Aug 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

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Influencing skills – build trust to influence

A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.

The ability to effectively work with and influence business partners and clients is dependent on good quality relationships, which are in turn built on trust.

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In this session, attendees will understand the key factors of building great relationships and trust with business partners and clients. We’ll discuss the trust equation, and the components that go into building trust. We’ll focus on 2 specific areas that finance professionals find harder to master, and how to deal with them. We’ll also cover how influence works and the 6 key factors we can use to drive business impact.

This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft, where he business partnered and influenced executives on a $4.5BN P&L.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	No Charge

Further events in the programme

Date	Time	Event
20 Jan 2022	12.30-13.30	Career management – getting promoted, moving from practice to industry & developing new skills
17 Feb 2022	12.30-13.30	Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across
17 Mar 2022	12.30-13.30	Influencing skills – build trust to influence
07 Apr 2022	12.30-13.30	Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling
26 May 2022	12.30-13.30	Get productive with Microsoft Office
23 Jun 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager series: First time manager skills
14 Jul 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers
11 Aug 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

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Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across

A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.

The ability to communicate and present effectively is becoming increasingly important in a world shifting its focus to value-add and away from process work. In both practice and industry, finance professionals at all stages of their career are required to present with confidence in order to generate influence and business impact.

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In this session, attendees will understand the key challenges of getting messages across to audiences. We’ll discuss the importance of knowing your audience, balancing competence and likeability, understanding and using presence, maintaining confidence and handling nerves and dealing with dealing with surprises. We’ll share some practical tips, and some important dos and don’t for engaging an audience. We’ll also briefly cover effective presenting over video calls – a critical skill for an increasingly remote first working environment.

This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft, where he gained first-hand experience of presenting to and influencing executives up to C-suite level.

Cost

Rate	Cost
Price	No Charge

Further events in the programme

Date	Time	Event
20 Jan 2022	12.30-13.30	Career management – getting promoted, moving from practice to industry & developing new skills
17 Feb 2022	12.30-13.30	Presenting with Confidence and Impact – getting your key messages across
17 Mar 2022	12.30-13.30	Influencing skills – build trust to influence
07 Apr 2022	12.30-13.30	Communication – Having great quality conversations – asking great question, listening & selling not telling
26 May 2022	12.30-13.30	Get productive with Microsoft Office
23 Jun 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager series: First time manager skills
14 Jul 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Coaching skills for managers
11 Aug 2022	12.30-13.30	3-part manager mini-series: Building a strengths-based team

 

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Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Graduation and Prizegiving 2022

We look forward to recognising the success of all Northern Society ACA students who became exam qualified during the last year in our annual Northern Society of Chartered Accountants Graduation and Prize-giving Event.

Celebration in King’s Hall

The graduation event this year will be at King’s Hall, Newcastle University and will be hosted by Chris Soan, President of Northern Society and we are delighted that we will be joined by Will Brooks, ICAEW President and Mark Edmondson, CEO of INFLO.

Our newly passed and prize-giving ceremony is one of the largest events for successful ICAEW students and has proved very popular in the past.

 

Students who have won exam prizes and those students who became exam-qualified during the last year will be invited to attend the event with up to 3 guests. The pass list for the November 2021 Advanced Stage exams has recently been published – congratulations to all successful students. 

Details of the event

ICAEW registered students in the Northern Society area who became exam qualified during the last year will be contacted by email with full details.

In order to secure your place, please respond to the email and RSVP to Joanne Lucking [email protected] as soon as possible. Joanne will also be able to assist should you need further information.

Funded by Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

The event is funded by Northern Society of Chartered Accountants.

We hold this event annually in Newcastle upon Tyne to recognise the successes of ACA students across north east England, Teesside, northern Yorkshire and Cumbria (the Northern Society of Chartered Accountants area). 

All new ICAEW members are invited by ICAEW to a national new members event at Chartered Accountants’ Hall in central London, but Northern Society recognises the time and costs of travel & accomodation to/in central London.

In order that as many ACA students and their family members, partners & friends, have an opportunity to attend an event to celebrate the successes of the ACA students in our region we warmly invite you to join us for our Graduation & Prizegiving Event in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants would like to thank CAPET and Newcastle University Business School for their kind support for the graduation event.

About Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants (NorSCA) represents 4,000 ICAEW members and ACA students working in business and the finance profession across the North East of England, Teesside, northern Yorkshire and Cumbria.

We have been assisting businesses in the north of England and producing chartered accountants for over 130 years.

About ICAEW

There are over 1.7m chartered accountants around the world – talented, ethical and committed professionals who use their expertise to ensure we have a successful and sustainable future.

Over 149,000 of these are ICAEW Chartered Accountants. We train, develop and support each one of them so that they have the knowledge and values to help build local and global economies that are sustainable, accountable and fair.

We’ve been at the heart of the accountancy profession since we were founded in 1880 to ensure trust in business. We share our knowledge and insight with governments, regulators and business leaders worldwide as we believe accountancy is a force for positive economic change across the world.

ICAEW (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales) is a founder member of Chartered Accountants Worldwide and the Global Accounting Alliance.

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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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CABA Dealing with difficult situations

Discover simple and effective techniques to resolve the situations you might dodge, charge in too heavy handed or dance around

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