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).

Cyber-crime prevention for practitioners
Date: Thursday 17 March
Time: 09.30-11.30
Lecturer: Stephen Hill

Property taxes
Date: Thursday 17 March
Time: 13:00-15:00
Lecturer: Dean Wootten

Tax update and planning for individuals, including Making Tax Digital
Date: Friday 18 March
Time: 09.30-11.30
Lecturer: Tim Palmer

Anti-Money Laundering
Date: Friday 18 March
Time: 13:00-15:00
Lecturer: Steve Giles

SESSION OVERVIEW

The rapid pace of technological change and globalisation have profoundly transformed the scale and way we work today. Individuals and organisations in the UK reported losses of £1.3bn to fraud and cybercrime in 2021 with reported instances of cybercrime spiking by seven times, rising from 39,160 to 289,437.

Cyber security experts predicted that in 2021, there would be a cyber attack incident every 11 seconds double the amount from the previous year and mainly coming in the form of ransomware and the predictions for 2022 follow this trend. As the ongoing pandemic has seen more of us working from home than ever before the setting is ripe for exploitation. The humble home router has become the surface attack, and the ‘work at home’ employee the target of choice.

Today criminals will target any business regardless of size by exploiting weaknesses both internal and external. Understanding the weaknesses in your organisation is the best way to protect your business against fraud and cyber risk allowing you the opportunity to implement effective controls mechanisms before it’s too late.

This session will consider the cyber security risks in business for practitioners and reviews the practical steps that can be taken to reduce the risks at the earliest possible stage.

KEY FEATURES

• Understand the current threats of cybercrime
  
  • Phishing Attacks - why are they still so successful
  • Malware including Ransomware
  • Exploited & vulnerable passwords
  • Social media exploitation - giving away too much information
  • Remote working risks (including WiFi and the cloud)
• Examining the type of cyber attacks aimed at accountants (Push frauds)
• Creating a secure culture – IT governance and controls
• Cyber Essentials and best practice to prevent attack

SPEAKER

Dr Stephen Hill BSc (Hons), CFE, MLPI, CIIP, PhD
Hill Bingham Ltd, Managing Director & Fraud Training Ltd, Director

SESSION OVERVIEW

Objectives: This course will cover the key issues concerning residential and commercial property.

Who should attend: Practitioners advising owner managed businesses with property transactions.

Topics:

• VAT option to tax
• Direct tax issues for developers
• Property income complications
• Tax planning with residential property
• SDLT and ATED developments
  
  

SPEAKER

Dean Wootten FCA CTA, Consultant, lecturer and author

Dean Wootten has been involved in tax training for many years and lectures and consults on a wide variety of tax matters. Dean started his career as a Chartered Accountant, qualifying with Grant Thornton in 1988.

Dean then spent two years overseas with KPMG before returning to a medium sized provincial firm in Sussex. Shortly after returning to the UK Dean qualified as an Associate of the Institute of Taxation in 1991.

Whilst in practice Dean gained valuable experience including five years at partner level. The experience gained enables Dean to focus his lecturing on the practical aspects of the issues presented.

SESSION OVERVIEW

This very practical webinar will advise delegates on the recent tax changes for individuals resident in the UK, and also explain the considerable impact that Making Tax Digital for income tax will have on them. Planning opportunities will also be considered.

KEY FEATURES

This webinar will cover the following topics:

• A tax update of the recent tax changes that will affect individuals resident in the UK
• Personal tax planning
• CGT update and planning
• The new 60 day CGT pay and file regime for individuals
• IHT refresher
• Making Tax Digital for income tax – how it will affect individuals
• Recent tax cases
• Stamp duty refresher and planning
• The tax benefits of electric vehicles
• Changes to the income tax basis periods
• Income tax on dividends update
• Practical case studies
• General overview

SPEAKER

Tim Palmer CTA ATT, Senior partner, Palmer Consultancy Partnership

SESSION OVERVIEW

This webinar provides an essential anti-money laundering refresher and update for accountants.

It includes a comprehensive overview of the UK's legal and regulatory framework and summarises the key controls and procedures required by practitioners for compliance with the UK's AML regime.

The webinar also brings accountants up to date with recent changes to laws and regulations. It considers the attitude and direction of travel of the UK authorities regarding money laundering and economic crime post-Brexit and it reviews the main findings of the UK's National Risk Assessment 2020. Recent headline cases are discussed and the need for accountants to take a proportionate, risk-based approach is emphasised throughout.

At the end of the session practitioners will be aware of the threats both to their businesses and to themselves as individuals posed by organised criminals, terrorists, fraudsters and corrupt businessmen and have a good understanding of how best to manage them.

KEY FEATURES

• The modern economic crime threat landscape
• Anti-money laundering & terrorist financing refresher - definitions, scale, methodology, threats to accountants
• Summary of UK law and regulations
• Legal & regulatory update
• CCAB Guidance
• Update on the new supervisory regime
• The key controls for accountants to manage their risks
• Review of recent cases

SPEAKER

Steve Giles (MA Oxon. ACA) Independent Consultant, Lecturer and Author

£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