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

To bridge the expectation gap in audit, this course looks at the roles of audit and the auditor, and explores, in detail, the audit process and the regulatory standards that govern auditing.

This course explores the process of due diligence from both the buyer and the seller's perspective. You will learn the importance of due diligence for both parties and will consider the risks involved in buying or selling a business, and what you can do to minimise these.

Finance teams are increasingly playing a strategic role in the survival and success of their organisations. Discover key updates on financial reporting and business challenges along with the importance of sustainability and professional credibility to your organisation.

Discover ways that as an accountant, you can take the lead in becoming a potential force for good in a business. Explore how to develop a growth mindset that will transform relationships and how to foster a culture of accountability and transparency that supports business resilience and growth.

This course will take you beyond the basics of being a CFO and allow you to embody the leadership role. You will build your interpersonal skills so that you can positively influence your team and develop the behaviours of a well-respected leader. Begin today to develop a clearer vision for your career.

Explore a range of new and improved functions including arrays, LAMBDA functions, the use of linked data and more. You'll be able to put what you're learning into practice with downloadable spreadsheets in each module.

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.

This course looks at the major taxation implications of buying and selling a business. The course will give you a better understanding of the options available to achieve the desired commercial outcome whilst minimising the tax payable.

Consumers, employees and major investors are increasingly choosing climate friendly brands. This course explains how a rigorous approach to carbon performance management will enable you to measure your organisation's carbon emissions and understand how to manage and reduce your carbon footprint.

This course takes you through the various requirements under each Schedule, giving you a detailed overview of the income tax system. Get up to date with how to tax various income types, including self-employment, trading and professional, and rental.

This update focuses on disclosures, including clarifications in the Exposure Draft on supplier finance arrangements, simplifications suggested on subsidiaries without public accountability, and new Sustainability Disclosure Standards from the ISSB.

Making the decision to grow your business through acquisition should not be one that is taken lightly. This course will guide you on how to grow your business through mergers and acquisitions and the pitfalls and issues to be aware of along the way.

This course introduces valuation processes and provides an overview of the main methods involved. You'll explore the use of asset-based, earnings and cash flow-based valuations as well as the complexities involved with non-standard and internet-based businesses.

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.

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.

UK only. This course looks into the most recent and upcoming changes to tax in the UK. Working through the modules on personal, business, capital and indirect tax will ensure that you are familiar with the changes in these areas and prepare you for the tax year ahead.

Get up to date with the latest on UK & Ireland GAAP including deferred tax, accounting for property valuations, government grants, and liabilities and equity. Refine your knowledge of these transactions and understand the reporting requirements.

This course teaches what it means to have a strategy, and how you can play a part in forming, implementing and monitoring a strategy in your organisation. Learn to analyse trends; set targets and what tactics you can use for successful strategies.

This course highlights the core principles of the Agile Manifesto and explains how agile principles can help you streamline your processes, without compromising quality or increasing risk. You will learn how to implement a framework that applies agile methodology to all your accounting practices, including month-end reporting, business planning, forecasting and decision making.

As a finance professional you use Excel to analyse data, but how often do you overlook Excel's useful features? This course looks at basic and advanced features of Excel's PivotTable tool as well as PowerPivot and Data Analysis Expressions (DAX).

Discover the skills and tools needed to make effective strategic decisions, to embed strategic thinking in your organisation and to become a strategic thinker.

Excel is a powerful calculation tool, record keeper and a tool for reporting and analysing. This course takes you through the features and functions available. Enhance your knowledge of navigating an Excel workbook, formatting data, and more.

This course introduces you to Power BI, Microsoft's powerful data analysis tool, and how it can benefit you in your finance role. Transform the way you handle and analyse data, and create a range of interactive data visualisations.

A faster rate of change in the business environment calls for a focus on looking forward. Discover the principles and practice of forecasting and how you can utilise interpretative statistics, short-medium and long term forecasting, with this course.

This course provides you with an update on major changes in tax, superannuation and employee status, and allows you to consider the impact of these updates on yourself, your business and your clients.

This course examines what Excel can offer accountants. Become confident in using fundamental and advanced Excel functions and features including conditional calculations and IF statements, lookups, tables, PivotTables and dynamic arrays.

If you are a novice Get & Transform Data user, this course will help you to navigate your way comfortably around the user interface. Learn the basics of using Power Query to connect, combine and transform your data, so that it meets your analysis needs.

This course has been designed to take the novice Power Pivot user to a level where they are comfortable working with Power Pivot models and using Pivot tables and charts. You'll also be able to carry out calculations and time intelligence functions by learning the basics of DAX.

In a world full of grey areas and thorny dilemmas, acting ethically is far from straightforward. This course explores the concept of ethics and issues faced in the workplace. Discover how to adjust your own behaviour and promote ethical practices.

Effective communication is vital for any finance professional. Improve your listening, speaking and writing skills with this course and learn how to overcome common barriers so you can successfully communicate in a range of professional contexts.

Are you familiar with the regulation on tackling money laundering and the financing of terrorism in the global financial system? This course explores the regulatory system within global finance designed to eliminate money laundering and to counter the financing of terrorism.

Take your Excel skills to the next level with this course on intermediate level formulas. Learn about a variety of rounding and text functions, as well as how to make the most out of date and time formulas and increase your workbooks resistance to errors.

This course explores Excel's advanced functions and how you can apply them in your finance work. Learn how to calculate future value, carry out one and two variable analysis, use reference functions, create dynamic ranges and more, in this course.

Dashboards are useful for presenting complex information in a more user-friendly way. This course will guide you through the fundamentals of creating dashboards in Excel, enabling you to produce professional charts and interactive visualisations that will inform users.

Using a real life Excel example, this course takes you through a process where you can learn how to develop forecasts and perform financial analysis. It leads you through a series of steps required to create your own model.