Get a head start on your Continuing Professional Development
It’s never too early to begin thinking about your continuing professional development (CPD) goals. We have a range of CPD opportunities available to help you keep up-to-date and prepare you for the year ahead.
Four easy steps to undertaking CPD:
- Make time.
- Keep an online record.
- Make it a habit.
- Explore the CPD opportunities available through ICAS.
While it might be tempting to wait until later in the year before assessing CPD activities, it’s a good idea to plan ahead and set out your development needs early on.
Make time
“I don’t have time” is the phrase we hear the most when talking about CPD and we’re all guilty of using it.
Whatever we do, work can be busy. Everyone faces similar pressures.
Whether you work in an accounting, finance or business role, it’s these commonalities that connect us all. Sometimes we’re so busy hurtling through our tasks, meetings and priorities that we don’t stop to focus on our own personal and professional development.
There is a strong chance that someone else is making the time and reaping the rewards.
Keeping an online record
Keeping your knowledge up-to-date, and making a commitment to undertake your CPD, are important aspects of your professional career.
Every year a percentage of members are asked to provide evidence of their CPD compliance. Our biggest source of development is the one that we’re immersed in – our everyday lives.
Whether it’s attending a course, joining a webinar or reading one of the many articles on icas.com, these activities all count as CPD. But we tend to fall down by not taking the time to record our learning and development activities.
We recommend that you keep an online record of your CPD during the year so that you can submit this easily, if required to do so.
Your CPD record can be in any format but as part of your CPD requirements, we provide a pro-forma CPD planning and recording document to help you plan your CPD activities and record your progression through our CPD process.
Make it a habit
With ever-increasing commitments and tasks competing for our time, keeping CPD at the forefront of your mind can be a challenge.
Start small, build a plan, keep going, and find a process that works for you. To help, we have a wide range of CPD offerings and resources available to you from both ICAS and our external CPD partners. These include:
For more information on our CPD offering and to see the full range of initiatives available for you or your organisation, visit the ICAS CPD section.
We’d love to hear your feedback on our current CPD offering. If you would like to make suggestions on how we can better support you, please contact the Professional Development team, email pd@icas.com
If you have any queries, you can also visit our help centre.
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