This conference consists of four sessions which makes it a cost-effective way of staying informed of the latest technical issues.

Please see the live webinar schedule below:
(If you are unable to join the live webinars, they will be available on-demand 24 hours after the live webinar ends and you will have access to the sessions for 12 months).

Shareholder and Partnership Agreements
Date: Thursday 11 November
Time: 09.30-11.30
Lecturer: Louise Dunford LLM, LLB Barrister, Cert Ed
Director LDC Training Ltd, Consultant for CompleteHR Ltd

Auditing Update
Date: Thursday 11 November
Time: 13:00-15:00
Lecturer: Mike Ulrich, consultant and lecturer

Autumn Budget and Spending Review
Date: Friday 12 November
Time: 09.30-11.30
Lecturer: Paul Soper, FCCA, Lecturer, consultant and broadcaster

VAT post Brexit
Date: Friday 12 November
Time: 13:00-15:00
Lecturer: Dean Wooten, FCA CTA

SESSION OVERVIEW

This fast paced and informative session covers the key points for those advising small and medium sized clients on the set up and running of their business in this key area:

• The importance of shareholders’ agreements, where they are used and their relationship to articles of association
• Objectives and advantages of an effective shareholders’ agreement, and the consequences of failing to make an agreement
• Key areas to consider and agree and recommendations for shareholders in small owner managed or family/quasi- partnership companies
• Identifying a partnership, and application of Partnership Act 1890
• Implications of failure to finalise a partnership agreement
• Key provisions and recommendations for inclusion in the agreement

The ability to advise clients of the potential implications of failing to provide sound and comprehensive agreements which can cover the most common eventualities is part of the added value the practitioners can bring to their clients. The course is useful to accountants at every level advising small businesses.

SPEAKER

Louse Dunford

I have been continuously involved in training and consultancy since 1987 and am a qualified barrister. I provide advice and assistance to employers through a consultancy company, CompleteHR Ltd, and have also engaged in CPD training for most of the national accountancy training bodies and district societies in the UK for many years.

I am involved in management training, particularly in employment and HR, for many large multinational and national commercial companies. I have also worked as an occasional associate senior lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, mainly on the MBA, MA Personnel Management and MA Business Law. I have published academic papers in refereed journals, chiefly on employment status and corporate manslaughter.

What will I get out of it?

• A review of the new standards applying for periods commencing on or after 15 December 2019.
• A review of the audit matters that often arise from file reviews by professional bodies and as part of firm’s annual review process.
• What firms can do to address these matters to avoid them recurring.
• Covid 19 and audit procedures.
• What may happen in the future.

Key features

• ISA 540
• ISA 570
• ISA 700
• Professional body reports
• Possible future developments

Lecturer:
Mike Ulrich, lecturer and consultant

SESSION OVERVIEW

Rishi Sunak's third Budget and Spending Review may make a return to the cycle of Autumn Budgets and Spring reviews that was instituted by his predecessor Philip Hammmond. Building on the second Budget earlier this year this also confirms the various new taxes, some of which were announced outside the Budget process itself and the progress of Making Tax Digital.

• The new Health and Social Care Levey and it's implications
• Making Tax Digital for Income Tax - the new rules concerning basis periods rushed in to repair the system
• Rises in Corporation tax combined with the Health and Social Care Levy - the future for profit extraction
• Residential Property Development Tax confirmed
• Capital Allowances, the superdeduction and the extension of the Annual Investment Allowance

Lecturer: Paul Soper

Paul qualified with Stoy Hayward and has since been both a partner in a small firm and sole practitioner and is now a consultant and lecturer on taxation issues focusing mainly on small practitioners and has presented extensively for firms both large and small as well as the ACCA, the ICAEW District Societies and the CIOT.

Paul has extensive broadcasting experience both on the radio with the BBC, Radios 1, 2 and 4 as well as local radio in London and in Wales, and on TV – he was one of the regular presenters of the first 3 series of Moneyspinner on Channel 4, has appeared in numerous videos produced and presented for various organisations including the BBC Accountants TV Channel. He produces, writes, records and present podcasts both for his own site – www.taxationpodcasts.com and for others as diverse as the Neighbourhood Watch and the ACCA.

Paul is the author of several books for students, as well as ‘How to Avoid CGT’ for Rushmere Wynne.

In his spare time he plays bass in a London-based blues band, Jimmy C and the Bluesdragons and is a season ticket holder at Fulham.

SESSION OVERVIEW

This course will review the VAT rules for goods and services post Brexit aimed at Practitioners and accountants in industry who have regular exposure to cross border trading.

Topics

• International services
• Incoterms
• Export of goods
• Import of goods
• New rules of origin for Customs Duty
• E-commerce changes from 1 July 2021
• Cross border VAT refunds
• Northern Ireland protocol
• Topics are flexible and new areas may be added.

Lecturer: Dean Wooten, FCA CTA

£115 + VAT (£138.00) per person

8 CPD units

1 hour of learning = 1 unit of CPD.

ACCA members can use this learning to meet their CPD requirements provided it is relevant to their career. If the event contributes to general knowledge and skills, it should be recorded as non-verifiable CPD. If the learning can be applied in the workplace, it will contribute to verifiable CPD.

This event is organised by ACCA Continuous Learning.

If you have any queries regarding this event please contact us on:

UKCL@accaglobal.com