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Financial modelling is an invaluable skill for accountants but in the wrong hands, models can be confusing and misleading. This course will teach you to build robust financial models in Excel to forecast future performance, and to measure and respond to uncertainty and change.

This course explores key current issues in auditing. It looks at control and risk factors key to understanding an entity, examines ISA 320's approach to calculating materiality, explores the IAASB’s targeted revisions proposed for ISA 570 Going Concern and considers an auditor's responsibilities when using the work of an expert.

How do you make sure a report communicates effectively and tells the right story? Maximise the impact of your reports with practical tips and guidance.

This course explains how to build and operate spreadsheets for forecasting, planning and business models. It's a practical guide, which takes a step-by-step approach to building, utilising and maintaining models.

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.

Hear from the experts and use their insights to help you add value in your organisation and get inspired. Our video interviews with leaders who've made their mark on our profession cover everything from AI and advanced data analytics to diversity, wellbeing and leadership and more.

AI technology is already able to enhance, improve and administer many finance functions, so the time to adopt the appropriate AI tools into your working practices is now. This course looks at how to get your team on board and successfully integrate AI into your finance function.

This course covers recent updates to the IFRS reporting framework, including a brand new general standard, a post-implementation review of contract revenue recognition, an Exposure Draft covering financial instruments, and more.

This course shares best-practice guidance about hybrid working for individuals, teams, and managers. From running hybrid meetings to recruitment and team management, you'll explore the skills and tools that enable you and your team to work at your best no matter where you are.

World class finance functions produce monthly reports that managers actually read. This course enables you to delight your audience by setting clear objectives, creating compelling visuals and creating monthly reports that drive business improvement.

Good corporate governance entails meeting standards of good practice in relation to board leadership and effectiveness, remuneration, accountability and relations with shareholders.

Economic concepts can help us to make better decisions. This course will challenge and develop the way you think about pricing, strategy, investment appraisal and customer relationships.

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.

IFRS 18, the first new IFRS since 2017, is going to change the way you work. This course looks in detail at the key elements of this new standard and how it will impact you and the businesses that you work for.

What is a world-class finance function, and why should you want to create one in your workplace? This course will help you to implement best practice in finance and accounting to optimise quality and efficiency, and to provide the best possible service to your stakeholders.

It's easy to find yourself using Excel the same way for years at a time. This course concentrates on a range of practical and simple techniques that can make spreadsheets quicker to set up, easier for the user to use, more automated, and guard against career-threatening errors.

Are you ready to embrace the future of accounting with AI? Artificial intelligence is reshaping how accountants strategise, predict, and advise. This course will help you to get to grips with the growth of AI and what it means for the profession and to develop the tools you need to use AI effectively.

This course explores the delicate balancing act of cash management. It covers controlling cash flows, monitoring liquidity, detecting fraud, and fostering a culture that focuses on cash.

This course covers recent updates and improvements to Excel, including the latest tools to help you handle data, details of formula enhancements, an introduction to the GROUPBY, PIVOTBY, and PERCENTOF functions, as well as some uses for the generative AI powers of Excel’s Copilot.

Businesses exist to make profits but, despite this, many businesses leak cash through poor credit management. This course looks at the benefits of a solid credit management department, and how you can maintain a robust system that keeps your organisation profitable and resilient.

IFRS 19 has a narrow scope, yet the implications for the financial statements of the entities that adopt it will be significant. This course examines the details of the changes IFRS 19 implements, and what information is needed - and no longer needed - in the disclosures.

Ethics can be a grey area. This course uses case studies and scenarios to equip you with the necessary tools to recognise potential ethical dilemmas and determine the best approach to them, in line with the ethical framework you adhere to as an accountant.

AI is transforming how we work, offering unprecedented efficiency and insights, but also significant ethical challenges. How do we ensure AI operates fairly, transparently, and in alignment with professional standards? Find out how to harness AI responsibly while upholding the integrity and trust central to the accounting profession.

People are worried about the effect AI could have on society. This course examines how businesses can construct trustworthy AI systems, operate them responsibly, and establish a robust governance framework to support ethical usage.

As a finance professional you use Excel to analyse data, but how often do you overlook Excel's useful features? This course explores some basic and more advanced features of Excel's PivotTable tool, covering Power Pivot and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) formulas.

Generative AI is the next big thing, but is it really all it's cracked up to be? This course will cut through the hype and explain where generative AI shines, where it stumbles, and how to work alongside it rather than be replaced by it.

Mental health issues affect more than half of all accountants and account for the majority of days lost due to ill health. This course offers practical ways to help us maintain our own mental health and help to create a happy and accepting work environment.

Getting monthly reporting right is essential for any business. This course helps you create timely, relevant, and reliable reports that meet user needs and significantly increase the chances of business success.

Understand the various types of financial crime and the controls that can be used to limit the opportunities for fraudsters to commit them. Look at how to create the right culture within an organisation to discourage collusion in fraud and encourage reporting and disclosure.