Northern Society of Chartered Accountants www.norsca.co.uk
This seminar is aimed at those with up to two years’ experience with little or no understanding of audit.
An audit junior is required to understand the fundamental principles of an audit and the relevant audit assertions. This seminar, targeted at those with up to two years’ practical experience, will provide participants with a range of practical tools to develop their skills and competence in the field.
Topics covered include:
Who should attend the seminar?
RATE | COST |
Price | £60.00 + VAT |
James Charlton
James is an experienced trainer specialising in financial reporting, both UK GAAP and IFRS, audit and the charity sector. James also has experience in the banking and insurance sectors.
James spent a number of years in professional examination training before entering the world of CPD training. He brings energy and interactivity to every course that he delivers.
James has also worked in the audit technical team at a national mid-tier firm, providing financial reporting and audit technical advice to the audit and accountancy departments, writing and reviewing technical materials for the practice, and performing engagement quality control reviews on audit files.
Northern Society runs a full programme of CPD courses that are open to all. Details of our 2022 programme are set out below.
Date | Session | Speaker |
24 March 2022 | What makes a good audit senior? | James Charlton |
30 March 2022 | A very practical Tax update – what you need to know | Rebecca Benneyworth |
30 March 2022 | Employment Taxes – an absolutely essential update | Rebecca Benneyworth |
28 April 2022 | Spring Tax update | Bob Trunchion |
12 May 2022 | Common disclosure errors in financial statements | John Selwood |
23 June 2022 | The A to Z of small and micro entity accounts | Peter Herbert |
22 September 2022 | Making Tax Digital – less than 130 days to go | Rebecca Benneyworth |
22 September 2022 | 25% Corporation Tax – are there any small business Tax planning issues left? | Rebecca Benneyworth |
11 October 2022 | What makes a good audit junior? | James Charlton |
19 October 2022 | Are you ready for changes in auditing in 2023? | John Selwood |
17 November 2022 | Property Accounting – all the important considerations for accountants | Peter Herbert |
1 December 2022 | Autumn Tax update | Bob Trunchion |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
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.
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.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
Date
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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 |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
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.
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.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
Date
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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 |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
A series of seminars for young members to help develop your career.
Most new managers don’t receive any formal training on great management, yet it’s one of the best ways to drive impact in your organisation. To put this into context: the majority of unhappy employees don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.
In this session, attendees will understand what good management is and why it matters. WE discuss key manager traits and attributes, and cover some of the key manager processes: having great 1:1s, giving feedback, setting development plans and motivating teams.
This lunchtime session will be led by Oliver Deacon, an FCA who qualified at Deloitte and, until recently, was an FD at Microsoft. Oliver has been managing teams for over 15 years, with consistently strong employee feedback scores, and has now become a full time coach.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
Date
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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 |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
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.
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.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
Date
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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 |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
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.
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.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
Date
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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 |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
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.
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.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
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 |
Northern Society of Chartered Accountants norsca.co.uk
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.
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.
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
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 |
Which sectors will lead the recovery in the North?
As the UK starts to recover from the fall out of the pandemic and business confidence is starting to return to positive territory, this economic update will look at how the ‘Northern Powerhouse Region’ is recovering, and which sectors will lead in this recovery.
We will hear from Mauricio Arminelli, Bank of England Local Agent for the North East as well as Andrew McPhillips, Chief Economist at the Northern Powerhouse and John Ashcroft, The Saturday Economist on their views of the northern economy.
This event will feature key speakers giving their insight into economic recovery across the North with an opportunity for you to get involved in the breakout discussions.
Breakout discussion rooms:
Each breakout room will be hosted by an expert speaker who will give an introduction before taking questions from delegates.
Global Trade | Janet Mui | Analysing the global economic cycle, assessing supply bottlenecks and understanding geopolitical risks. |
Importing & exporting | Julie Underwood | |
Manufacturing & engineering | David Campbell | |
Net Zero | Dan Parsons | Focusing on carbon net zero, renewable energy and flood risk management, and the role of small businesses. |
Retail | Paul Lewis | Managing demand fluctuations, longer-term supply challenges and protecting the people |
Skills | Lizzie Crowlie | Developing the future workforce – what do young people want from work? |
Travel, Tourism & Hospitality | Stuart McCallum |
Follow the conversation
#ICAEWPoweringtheNorth
Outline Programme (subject to change)
Time | Session |
07:55 | Virtual meeting room open | delegates invited to join |
08:00 | Welcome and introductions, Yvonne Gale |
ICAEW Business Confidence Monitor presentation, Iain Wright | |
Bank of England Economic update, Mauricio Armellini | |
Northern Powerhouse Company, Andrew McPhillips | |
The Saturday Economist, John Ashcroft | |
08:50 | Thanks from the host, delegates move into breakout rooms for topic discussions |
Discussion room topics:
Global Trade, Janet Mui Importing & exporting, Julie Underwood & Jack Simpson Manufacturing & engineering, David Campbell Net zero, Dan Parsons Retail, Paul Lewis Skills, Lizzie Crowley Travel, tourism & hospitality, Peter Johnson-Treherne |
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09:20 | Return to main room for overview and key take away statements |
09:45 | Thank you & close |
Global Trade – Janet Mui, CFA, Brewin Dolphin
Janet is Investment Director at Brewin Dolphin and is a voting member of Brewin’s asset allocation committee. She has over 10 years of experience in macro research and was previously the global economist at Cazenove Capital. She is responsible for the commentary and communication of Brewin Dolphin’s macro/investment views to clients and the media. She is a frequent guest on the BBC, Sky news, Bloomberg and CNBC on macro discussions. She won the best industry commentator award at the 2021 City of London wealth management awards. She has a first class Economics degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA in Finance at Cambridge University. Twitter: @janetmui1 | @brewindolphin
Importing & Exporting – Julie Underwood, International Trade Director and Jack Simpson, Training and Global Network Adviser, North East Chamber of Commerce
Twitter: @NEEChamber
Manufacturing & engineering – David Campbell, Iidea Ltd
He enjoyed an illustrious career in practice with a great firm, kicking off as a trainee in Sheffield in 1979, and rising eventually to a senior national position with his firm Grant Thornton.
David is an Owner/Director of a small but growing engineering business by the name of IIdea limited, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of engineering group Tinsley Bridge,
A member of the Cutlers Company and Chair, Sheffield based charity Age UK. Twitter: @campbers1
Net Zero – Professor Dan Parsons, University of Hull
Professor Parsons is an active researcher in areas related to fluvial, estuarine, coastal and deep marine sedimentary environments, exploring responses of these systems to climate and environmental change, for example understanding how evolving flood hazard translates to risk across the world and how this can impact populations within river basins and low lying coastal environments.
As the Director of the Energy and Environment Institute, he has gathered together a multidisciplinary team of over 130 researchers, has a portfolio of active research grants and projects of over £29M, and hosts flagship MSc programmes, including one addressing Flood Risk Management. Twitter: @bedform | @UniOfHull
Retail – Paul Lewis, CFO Lakeland
Paul joined Lakeland from Belron UK where he was Group Finance Director, overseeing a large-scale turnaround with responsibility for Strategy, Finance, Property and HR. Prior to this Paul’s experience included Financial Controller at Autoglass, Commercial Director at start up business AutoRestore and Operational Review roles with Invensys PLC. Paul trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG. Twitter: @LakelandUK
Skills – Lizzie Crowley, Senior Skills Policy Advisor, CIPD
Lizzie is CIPD’s Senior Skills Policy Advisor and leads CIPD’s research and policy development on the UK skills system. Lizzie is a policy and research professional with over 17 years’ experience in the employment and skills arena, having worked with both the public and private sector to develop high-quality research to inform organisational practice, public policy and shape the public debate. Twitter: @LizzieCrowley1
Travel, Tourism & Hospitality – Peter Johnson-Treherne, Heritage Great Britain plc
Peter is Group Finance Director at Heritage GB and has 20+ years’ experience as a senior FD in the Tourism sector. Peter is also a current member of the ICAEW Travel & Tourism Advisory Group.
Founded in 1999, Heritage Great Britain operates some of the UK’s top landmark destinations and iconic visitor attractions. Headquartered in Liverpool, its current portfolio stretches from the coastal splendour of Land’s End at the Westernmost tip of Cornwall, to remote John O’Groats in the far North of Scotland. Twitter: HeritageGB
Rate | Cost |
Price | No Charge |
A quarterly discussion group for small & sole practitioners.
An opportunity for ICAEW members who work in a small practice or is a sole practitioner to meet to discuss topics that matter to them.
Join our quarterly roundtable discussion group for small practice or sole practitioners working across the Northern region.
We will be joined by Sam Wood, Making Tax Digital Agent Lead at HMRC. Sam will be giving us an update on the project and you will also be able to ask questions that are affecting you as an agent but also your clients.
At each meeting we will get a general update from your ICAEW Practice Committee (IPC) Representative Geoff Little.
Refreshments can be purchased by individuals at the bar.
Rate | Cost |
ICAEW Member | No Charge |
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