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Making the most of your practice visit – General Practitioners Quarterly Meeting

A quarterly meeting for small & sole practitioners.

We will be joined by QAD Manager, Chris Greenhalgh, who will guide members through your practice visit.

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.

Event information

Join our quarterly roundtable discussion group for small practice or sole practitioners working across the Northern region. The discussion topics have been suggested by members in practice. At each meeting we will get a general update from your ICAEW Practice Committee (IPC) Representative Geoff Little.

Programme

Time	Session
12:30	Welcome
12:35	Update from IPC Rep – Geoff Little
12:45	Speaker
13:15	General discussion, sharing of best practice, networking
14:00	Close

Cost

Rate	Cost
ICAEW Member	No Charge

Maximise your ICAEW membership hosted by Northern Society of Chartered Accountants

An exclusive and informative session on what ICAEW can offer it’s members

We are hosting this Maximise Your ICAEW Membership event to help answer that question and many more to inform you about key benefits and services that are included in your ICAEW membership both locally and nationally.

Event Information

During the virtual session you will find information and updates from:

Richard Slack, Northern Society Vice President
How the Northern Society of Chartered Accountants can help your network
Member rewards and exclusive offers
Communities
Library Services
Practice member support
Business member support
CABA

There will also be an opportunity for you to ask questions.

Cost

Rate	Cost
ICAEW Member	No Charge

Effective hybrid working with Oliver Deacon

In this session we will guide you through effective skills required for hybrid working.

In a rapidly evolving environment, effective teams will be likely be split between remote and onsite/in-office working. As finance and practice teams’ transition from home working to a few days in the office, team motivation, productivity, transparency and cohesion can be materially impacted as teams attempt to find a new rhythm.

Event Information

In this session, attendees will understand the key challenges of remote and hybrid teams, and the skills required for effective working. We’ll discuss how an effective communication strategy can improve agility and maximise productivity and practical tools to develop team chemistry and motivation, wherever they’re working.

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 leveraging innovation and tech to lead a highly effective virtual finance team.

Cost

RATE	COST NOW
ICAEW Member	£15.00 + VAT
Non-Member	£30.00 + VAT

RATE	COST WAS
~~ICAEW Member~~	~~£30.00 + VAT~~
~~Non-Member~~	~~£60.00 + VAT~~

General Practitioners Quarterly Meeting – CABA update

A quarterly meeting for small & sole practitioners.

Event information

We will be joined by CABAs representatives who will update members on the well being and resilience resources that are available to members and their families.

Cost

Rate	Cost
ICAEW Member	No Charge

Programme

Time	Session
12:30	Welcome
12:35	Update from IPC Rep – Geoff Little
12:45	Speaker
13:15	General discussion, sharing of best practice, networking
14:00	Close

Northern Society of Chartered Accountants www.norsca.co.uk

An essential update for those working in practice to ensure that you are compliant.

Accountants working in professional practice face a seemingly endless stream of regulatory changes which affect practice management. Non-compliance can result in a bad outcome at the time of an inspection visit from a professional body.

Course information

This course will explain all the recent changes and also highlight common issues on professional body regulatory visits, helping you to ensure that your practice is well prepared in the event of such a visit. Content will include:

AML procedures reviewed during Practice/Quality Assurance visits and why they matter
Client monies and DPB – where firms go wrong and why
Professional Conduct in Relation to Tax (PCRT)
How to managing risk and quality in a small practice
Preparing for an ICAEW/ACCA inspection visit
Recent regulator feedback on Practice and Quality Assurance compliance – what the disciplinary cases tell us

Who should attend the seminar?
Partners, managers and staff in accounting firms with an interest in anti-money laundering and practice regulation compliance.

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 30 August 2021.

Cloud Finance Strategies for Small Business

Cloud Finance Strategies for Small Business.

If you work in a smaller business or are an advisor to local businesses in the North East then this is an event not to be missed.

We will explore how small businesses can approach cloud technology automation, out-sourcing and optimising for value-added work

Event information

We will discuss ideal states for small businesses finances to allow business owners and leaders to spend less time on finance work, but get more value add from their numbers. We’ll show how the finance function should ideally evolve as the business grows, maximising time and resource investment. We’ll look at the ideal mix between outsourcing function to benefit from cloud based technology, machine learning and value-add apps/services, and when to bring more bespoke support in house.

Even though it’s a short discussion, participants should leave with some clear actions and ideas on new things to pilot to move towards a fully cloud based and automation finance function.

This event is aimed at small business finance managers, business owners and accounting firms serving small and medium sized businesses.

Speaker

Oliver Deacon is a qualified ACC Executive Coach, a former Finance Director at Microsoft and a Fellow of the ICAEW. Beside his love of numbers, Oliver’s true career passion has been building great teams and coaching individuals to achieve their full potential.

With first-hand experience of the future of finance, Oliver has helped teams manage change through integrating the skills and tools of the next generation of strategy and analytics professionals and leaders.