Courses

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 5 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. The course presents the information needed to identify the specific requirements of the new IASB IFRS 17 insurance standard.

We are standing on the edge of a new frontier for organisations, accountants and corporate reporting. There has been an explosion of expectations, requirements, standards, and information around ESG Reporting in the past few years. Now we are seeing tangible outcomes, as jurisdictions coalesce around specific regulations and a few key bodies. This 4-hour course will provide a foundation for engaging with ESG Reporting.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 8 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. This course provides a detailed overview of the major technical issues encountered when producing IFRS-compliant financial statements.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours’ duration. It provides a comprehensive view of the most important accounting, reporting and disclosure requirements for financial instruments under IPSAS 28-30 and IPSAS 41, and making linkages between the IPSAS and the corresponding IAS/IFRS.

As business moves towards more transparent reporting and more accountable reporting on non-financial information, the auditing profession must adapt to understand and provide assurance over the non-financial information reported by business. Stakeholders are placing increasing importance on reports on non-financial information, such as ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) reporting which includes sustainability, and extended external reporting.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over a 4 hour session. The course provides a short, focussed analysis of IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to enable participants to evaluate the impact of IFRS 9 on the financial statements.

This interactive course will enable managers in the private and public sector to understand and apply a range of standards and tools underpinning Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. ESG issues are becoming increasingly financially material, companies, and public sector entities are looking to improve sustainability disclosure and performance. This course will provide the foundations in a number of key standards and frameworks used for ESG disclosures and reporting.

The IAASB has recently completed a comprehensive revision of the standards applicable to the management of quality in audit and assurance, bringing much needed, comprehensive shifts in the approach to quality management which will require significant changes to systems and to behaviours of professionals in audit.

The standard ISA315(R) has been revised to respond to various challenges experienced by the auditing profession in appropriately identifying and assessing, and therefore responding to, the risk of material misstatement. While the risk-based approach has not changed, there are changes to concepts and steps within the process. These could materially impact the way you have been identifying and assessing risk and could bring significant improvements in quality and audit efficiencies.

The IESBA Code was comprehensively revised and issued in 2018 and the IESBA subsequently continues to embark on projects to strengthen and enhance areas of the code of issue guidance on the application of professional ethics in practice. This annual update covers revisions to the code, additional updates, publications and projects of the IESBA and their practical application for professionals in accounting.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 2 sessions, each of 4 hours’ duration. It brings delegates up-to-date with the IPSASB’s already published new and amended Standards and the significant Exposure Drafts in its Work Program.

This course is taught via a live online classroom over 4 sessions, each of 4 hours' duration. It focuses on the application of International Financial Reporting Standards and industry accounting practices, in the minerals and mining sector.