ICAS webinars
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Our new online resource has a diary of all upcoming ICAS webinars and links to catch up on past events you might have missed.
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Upcoming Webinars
22 September - Bank of England: Agency for Scotland September 2020 Briefing
Date: Tuesday 22 September
Time: 2pm BST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: Will Dowson and Iain Duff, Bank of England
Bank of England Agents, Will Dowson and Iain Duff give an “off the record” briefing on the economic outlook, followed by a Q&A session.
There is an opportunity for those joining the briefing to ask a question by either submitting their questions beforehand to scotland@bankofengland.co.uk or during the event itself.
The next one of these is on 22 September. Your members or other colleagues are welcome to join the briefing. Please register by 21 September.
24 September - Ask ICAS: In conversation with the Small Business Commissioner
Date: Thursday, 24 September 2020
Time: 11am BST
Duration: 1 hour
Chair: David Menzies CA, Director, Practice
Speakers: Philip King, Interim Small Business Commissioner
The expert panellists will highlight key information that CAs need to know as well as answering your questions live.
The Ask ICAS series of webinars provides an opportunity to keep up to date with the latest developments from experts within ICAS as well as a range of external guest experts.
Attendees will be able to take advantage of a live Q&A with the webinar presenters or send in their queries in advance to dmenzies@icas.com to be answered live.
29 September - ICAS Insights Challenging Conversations - Bullying in the Profession:
Date: Tuesday 29 September
Time: 11am
Speakers:
Catriona Paisey, Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow.
Elaine MacGlone, Equality and Diversity Manager, The Law Society of Scotland
Chair: James Barbour, Director, Policy Leadership, ICAS
In this webinar, hosted in partnership with the Law Society of Scotland and Adam Smith Business School, we will provide examples of bullying experienced by members of the accountancy and legal professions and explore what needs to be done by organisations to eradicate such behaviour.
Catriona Paisey, author of Speak up? Listen up? Whistleblow?, will provide a perspective from the accountancy profession. Catriona will draw on some of the findings from her research which highlighted bullying experienced by CAs and made recommendations for mitigating the risk of such behaviour.
Elaine MacGlone, Equality and Diversity Manager at The Law Society of Scotland, will provide us with a perspective from the legal profession. This will cover guidance from the Law Society, Bullying and harassment in the legal profession, which is intended to prevent bullying and harassment from occurring, and help deal effectively with any instances.
30 September - Career Conversations
Date: Wednesday 30 September
Time: 12 noon
Duration: 1 hour
Chair: Bruce Pritchard CA
Speakers:
Samuel Ajayi-Obe CA CTA, Special Situations Group KPMG
Calum Macdonald CA, ICAS Lecturer
Kerrie Murray CA, CEO of Pryme Group
Are you considering a career as a Chartered Accountant and want to learn more about the qualification and the doors it could open for you? Are you an ICAS Student looking ahead to your first steps as a CA? Or are you in your first few years post-qualification and considering how to progress?
If you are, then this webinar will help answer some of the questions you may have about a career as a CA.
Chaired by ICAS Deputy President Bruce Pritchard CA, this webinar will be your chance to hear from three CAs who have all recently taken giant strides on their own successful CA careers.
Bruce will be asking panelist questions about their own career journeys and there will also be an opportunity for you to submit your questions to the panelists.
1 October - Ask ICAS: Practice pitfalls and how to avoid them
Date: Thursday 1 October 2020
Time: 11am BST
Duration: 1 hour
Chair: David Menzies CA, Director, Practice
Speakers: Alasdair Millar, Senior Reviewer, Practice Monitoring
Join Alasdair Millar, Senior Reviewer, Practice Monitoring, as he examines how members can avoid the most common regulatory and compliance pitfalls.
To ensure our members are up to date with the latest developments related to coronavirus and its effects on business and practice, ICAS is running the Ask ICAS webinar series to directly answer your questions and concerns.
Attendees will be able to take advantage of a live Q&A with the webinar presenters or send in their queries in advance to dmenzies@icas.com to be answered live.
7 October - Grampian Area Network webinar: An event to inspire young CAs
Date: Wednesday 7 October
Time: 12 noon BST
Duration: 1 hour
Join two of our Grampian Members, Karen Maclennan CA and Kimberley Oliver CA, for an informal and candid conversation about the interesting and varied career paths of CAs.
In this webinar, open to all ICAS Members and Students, two of our Grampian Members will share their personal careers paths and experiences to date. Hear Karen Maclennan CA and Kimberley Oliver CA talk about the lessons they have learned along the way, and their tips and guidance for others on the CA career journey.
All those joining the webinar will be encouraged to ask questions and engage with our speakers in this informal and candid learning experience.
8 October - Ask ICAS: Furlough - the final furlong
Date: Thursday 8 October 2020
Time: 11am BST
Duration: 1 hour
Chair: David Menzies CA, Director, Practice
Speakers: Justine Riccomini, Head of Taxation
David Menzies CA, Director, Practice, and Justine Riccomini, Head of Taxation, look at the steps that need to be taken in relation to furlough as the government scheme enters its final month.
To ensure our members are up to date with the latest developments related to coronavirus and its effects on business and practice, ICAS is running the Ask ICAS webinar series to directly answer your questions and concerns.
Attendees will be able to take advantage of a live Q&A with the webinar presenters or send in their queries in advance to dmenzies@icas.com to be answered live.
22 October - Ask ICAS: The Pressures of Practice
Date: Thursday 22 October 2020
Time: 11am BST
Duration: 1 hour
Chair: David Menzies CA, Director, Practice
Speakers: Jeremy Clarke CA, Assistant Director, Practice, Caroline Christie CA and Marie McKeown from the Scottish Accountant’s Benevolent Association.
David Menzies CA, Director, Practice , and Jeremy Clarke CA, Assistant Director, Practice, discuss the pressures of practice and how to deal with them with Caroline Christie CA and Marie McKeown from the Scottish Accountant’s Benevolent Association.
To ensure our members are up to date with the latest developments related to coronavirus and its effects on business and practice, ICAS is running the Ask ICAS webinar series to directly answer your questions and concerns.
Attendees will be able to take advantage of a live Q&A with the webinar presenters or send in their queries in advance to dmenzies@icas.com to be answered live.
27 October - Building Resilience: A #FinBiz2030 Series “Leadership, Purpose and Ethics”
Date: Tuesday 27 October
Time: 5.30pm BST
Duration: 1 hour
Speakers: TBC
Following from the previous event, “Equality. Diversity. Opportunity”, we are proud to present “Leadership, Purpose and Ethics” as the next in our Building Resilience series.
The economic crisis touching every part of the world is forcing organisations to re-examine their values and broader purpose. It is increasingly apparent that those leading without accountability, empathy and ethics will not survive this period and that business leaders must look to support the widest set of stakeholders. It has never been more pressing for leaders of every sector to steer themselves in a moral direction. Join us as we hear from leaders who will tell us why young people must have the knowledge and resilience to address the challenges confronting our professional and personal lives.
Who should attend?
The ‘Building Resilience’ webinar series is aimed at young finance, accountancy and business professionals, students and One Young World Ambassadors.
About the series
Every corner of the world has been touched by this pandemic unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. As it stands, the socioeconomic outlook is uncertain and the future is challenging as millions have experienced some sort of displacement in their professional and personal lives.
But as the world begins to adjust to COVID-19 and move forward, we need to ensure the world’s workforce is ready to rebuild with optimism and lead with resilience. We must work towards creating a more sustainable future, and that requires each and every one of us to play our part.
As part of the ‘Building Resilience’ Series, we will bring you insight and experience from young leaders and experts that will equip you with the knowledge and confidence to lead through this uncertain time.
29 October - Ask ICAS: Legal Update for IPs
Date: Thursday 29 October
Time: 11am BST
Duration: 1 hour
Chair: David Menzies CA, Director, Practice
Speakers: Stuart Clubb. Partner at law firm Shoosmiths
David Menzies CA, Director, Practice, and Stuart Clubb. Partner at law firm Shoosmiths, provide a legal update for insolvency practitioners.
To ensure our members are up to date with the latest developments related to coronavirus and its effects on business and practice, ICAS is running the Ask ICAS webinar series to directly answer your questions and concerns.
Attendees will be able to take advantage of a live Q&A with the webinar presenters or send in their queries in advance to dmenzies@icas.com to be answered live.
Past webinars
September 2020
18 September - ICAS Insights: In conversation with Mel Stride MP, Alison Thewliss MP and Lucy O'Carroll
Join us for a conversation with the Chair of the House of Commons Treasury Committee, Mel Stride MP, Committee Member Alison Thewliss MP, and Director of Taxation in the Scottish Government, Lucy O’Carroll, to discuss the Committee’s open inquiry ‘tax after coronavirus’.
17 September - Ask ICAS: Debt management for firms and their clients in a COVID-19 environment
With businesses across the world affected by Coronavirus and many suffering cash flow difficulties, join us to take a look at how to balance supporting clients or customers with maintaining a positive cash flow and avoiding bad debt within your own business.
The expert panellists highlight key information that CAs need to know as well as answering your questions live.
9 September - ICAS Insights: In conversation with Iain Stewart MP
Join us for a conversation with Under Secretary of State for Scotland, Iain Stewart MP, to learn about the latest government support for economic recovery.
3 September - Ask ICAS – VAT Update
Join us for a roundup of the latest information and developments in relation to VAT. The expert panellists highlight key information that CAs need to know as well as answering questions live.
August 2020
27 August - Ask ICAS: Coronavirus Updated and Hot Topics
Join us for a roundup of the latest developments on a range of topics which are affecting business and those in practice.
The expert panelists highlight key information that CAs need to know as well as answering your questions live.
25 August - ICAS Insights: Creating a culture of inclusiveness
Join us to hear inspirational keynote speaker Matt Lindley share his personal experience of the transformational effect of inclusive leadership.
This webinar is part of a webinar series supporting the ICAS Guthrie Group’s aims of embedding a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion across our membership and the wider profession.
13 August - Ask ICAS: The future of UK taxation - reformed and digital
Members of the ICAS tax and practice teams outline the extension of Making Tax Digital to income tax for business and landlords.
Tax compliance or business accounts? With mandation of quarterly reporting for income tax by April 2023, tax compliance can no longer be a footnote to annual business accounts preparation. A new approach is needed.
12 August - Accounting for COVID-19: Sustainability, Impact & Accounting Professionals
We hear from our panellist on how finance professionals and functions should ‘account’ for COVID-19 in ways that are transparent, consistent and does not produce inadvertent inequities?
In this webinar, presented by ICAS in partnership with Adam Smith Business School, an expert panel consisting of practitioners, professional bodies and academics will outline some of the key challenges and discuss best practices emerging from the accounting profession during and post COVID-19.
6 August - Ask ICAS: HR in a remote environment - redundancies, hiring, disciplinary
COVID-19 has changed the way of working. Accountancy practices’ most important asset is the people that work in them. But how has HR and managing people changed in a remote environment?
In this webinar we will be joined by HR experts to understand how recruitment and job hunting has changed and how remote working has impacted HR processes such as onboarding new staff, performance management, disciplinary and redundancy processes.
July 2020
30 July - Ask ICAS: Latest update and hot topics
Join us for a roundup of the latest developments related to COVID-19 which are affecting business and those in practice.
The expert panellists highlight key changes in government business support programmes as well as answering your questions.
23 July - Ask ICAS: AML update - How COVID19 has changed how you should be doing AML
"If you're doing AML the same way you were in the pre-COVID world, you're doing it wrong." Nathan Lynch, Financial Crime Journalist.
From changing criminal activity to restrictions on movements and increased remote working, the impact on AML and accountants’ responses has changed. In this webinar we look at the issues accountancy practices need to be aware of, how the 5th Anti Money Laundering Directive has changed things, and how the AML requirements can be made easier for practice.
22 July - ICAS Insights: In conversation with Kate Forbes MSP
Join us for a conversation with Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Kate Forbes MSP, to learn about the Scottish Government’s current priorities and response to COVID-19.
21 July - ICAS Insights: An update from the FCA
In this webinar, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Head of Scotland Office, Maggie Craig, introduces the FCA and its role as a regulator.
16 July - Ask ICAS: Should tax advisers be regulated, and if so who by?
HMRC has long had concerns about the standards of some tax practitioners – and the words of the Financial Secretary in the foreword to an open call for evidence are chilling ‘….Some advisers are incompetent, some unprofessional, a few actively corrupt.’
What is the government likely to do about this? Our panel discuss the thorny topic, outline the perceived problems, potential options, and the ICAS proposed policy positions on standards, greater reliance on professional body self-regulation, and an affiliate scheme.
9 July - Ask ICAS: The future of hospitality, tourism and leisure
The hospitality, tourism and leisure sector has been one of the hardest hit during the coronavirus crisis. As lockdown restrictions begin to ease, many organisations occupying this sector are looking for ways to adapt their business to the ‘new normal’.
An expert panel discuss what lies ahead for the businesses and how CA firms can best assist clients working in these sectors.
7 July - ICAS Insights: Speak up? Listen Up? Whistleblow?
Catch up on the ICAS Insights webinar: Speak up? Listen Up? Whistleblow? Led by James Barbour, we hear from Catriona Paisey, Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow, and Paul Boyle OBE, Chair of whistleblowing charity Protect, about how CAs can take a stand and speak up.
2 July - Ask ICAS: Preparing for a return to office working
Devolved governments across the UK have started to ease the lockdown restrictions which came into place to help tackle the spread of COVID-19.
But what does sectoral guidance look like for accountancy practices bringing workers back into the office?
This webinar examines the processes that employers and their staff will be required to adhere to as they begin to return to the office environment. We will hear from occupational health specialists and gain insight from CAs who have already started this process, as well as looking at how the new ICAS Guidance and Toolkit can help you with this process.
June 2020
25 June - Ask ICAS: Rescuing distressed businesses: Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
The economic crisis arising out of the coronavirus pandemic is tipped to create a wave of financially distressed businesses. The government has announced new measures to help the UK's recovery and restructuring framework including a new Moratorium.
Expert panellists provide a comprehensive overview of the insolvency changes being brought in through the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill, expected to come into legislation by the end of June, as well as being available to answer your questions live.
23 June - ICAS Insights: The Future of Sustainability
In this webinar our panellists discuss key questions relating to sustainability and the coronavirus pandemic.
18 June - Ask ICAS – Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and Self Employed Income Support Scheme update
In this webinar, speakers give a roundup of the latest developments related to COVID-19-related government wage support measures. Expert panellists provide a comprehensive overview of changes to the CJRS and SEISS, as well as answering questions live.
17 June - Your career journey as a CA
Are you a final-year ICAS Student looking ahead to your first steps as a CA? Or are you in your first few years post-qualification and considering how to progress?
In this webinar the Glasgow & West ICAS Member Area Network brought together three CAs with recent experience of taking giant strides along their own successful CA journeys, all ready to assist with insights, knowledge and practical suggestions.
This webinar was held in association with Rutherford Cross.
11 June - Ask ICAS: Accounts and Audit: Going concern and events after the reporting period for small and micro-entities
In this webinar, speakers cover the considerations for small and micro-entities in relation to going concern and events after the end of the reporting period during COVID-19. We will explore the specific reporting requirements for these types of entities under FRS 102, specifically Section 1A, and FRS 105, and the potential disclosure implications.
9 June - ICAS Insights: Coronavirus and its impact on the global economy
In this webinar our panel discusses what the lasting effects of COVID-19 on the global economy and society may be.
4 June - Ask ICAS: Spring tax update Part 2 - Taxation of business
In this webinar, members of the ICAS Tax team provide an update on the latest tax matters including developments in the Finance Bill 2020. Speakers also provide a general tax update which covers business taxes, i.e. an overview; a reminder of what is changing and pointers to where to get further information.
3 June - ICAS Insights: In conversation with the ICAS Office Bearers
Catch up on the ICAS Insights: In conversation with the ICAS Office Bearers webinar. ICAS CEO, Bruce Cartwright, speaks to our three ICAS Office Bearers about the CA Agenda.
Focusing on the three CA Agenda themes of Talent, Trust and Technology, our speakers shared their thoughts in a ‘Three-T’ discussion, giving us all food for thought.
May 2020
28 May - Ask ICAS: Hot topics and latest updates
Speakers provide a roundup of the latest developments related to COVID-19 which are affecting business and those in practice.
26 May - ICAS Insights: Equality, diversity and inclusion in the accountancy profession
How can we ensure the accountancy profession is open and accessible to all? This webinar covers what ICAS is doing to embed a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion across our membership and the wider profession.
22 May - ICAS Insights: In conversation with Douglas Ross MP
ICAS has been engaging with the UK and Scottish Governments during the coronavirus outbreak on behalf of ICAS Members.
Bruce Cartwright CA, ICAS Chief Executive, has written directly to UK Government MP and Secretary of State for Scotland, Alister Jack, on 24 April and 6 May.
These letters set out a number of concerns for ICAS Members, their practices, businesses and clients. They also raise queries and request further information on a range of issues relating to the government response to coronavirus.
This webinar was an opportunity for ICAS Members to hear from the Under Secretary of State for Scotland, the Rt Hon Douglas Ross MP, and to put their questions directly to him.
21 May - Ask ICAS: Spring Tax Update part 1 - Taxation of individuals
Speakers provide a general tax update which covers individual taxes, an overview of what is changing and pointers to where to get further information.
14 May - Ask ICAS: Coronavirus: Insurance considerations
Coronavirus and the change to the working environment brings with it risks to business. Business insurance will often mitigate such risks but what are the potential issues in the current environment. How might business interruption cover, unoccupied properties, Employer Liability cover and PII amongst others be affected?
Our speakers will help to answer these and other questions throughout this webinar.
13 May - CA magazine webinar: Thriving in uncertain times
CA magazine editor Laurence Eastham hosts a conversation with Andrew Bone CA, co-founder and CEO of award-winning professional services software provider Airts.
Filmed during a period of unprecedented change, this timely webinar examines how firms and accounting professionals alike can adapt to new ways of working during the coronavirus pandemic and beyond.
12 May - ICAS Insights: Mental fitness in focus
Catch up on the Mental Fitness in Focus webinar featuring a conversation with Lianne Stewart CA and Jonny Jacobs CA.
7 May - Ask ICAS: Running your practice remotely
From staff to systems, serving clients to video meetings – how do you continue to run a practice remotely? With no clear indication that lockdown will end anytime soon how do you move from emergency business continuity to a newer norm?
April 2020
30 April - Ask ICAS: Coronavirus practice panel discussion
Members from across the practice community came together for a panel discussion covering key developments in the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on the business and practice landscape.
23 April - Ask ICAS: Latest updates and hot topics
Some key takeaways from the fourth Ask ICAS webinar which looked at some of the latest COVID-19 developments and hot topics.
16 April - Ask ICAS: Charities and regulation
Some key takeaways from the third Ask ICAS webinar which looked at how the charity sector has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
9 April - Ask ICAS: Accounts, audit and cash as king
Some key takeaways from the second Ask ICAS webinar which covered accounts, audit and directors responsibilities
2 April - Ask ICAS: Employed & self employed support
Here are some key takeaways from the first Ask ICAS webinar which covered coronavirus employed and self-employed support.
Free CPD webinars
In conjunction with our training partner BPP Professional Development, we also run a suite of free Professional Development webinars for Members and employers. These webinars provide the perfect opportunity to connect with industry professionals, share insights and discuss current trends. Browse our CPD webinar page below to find out more about these events and to watch recordings of previous webinars: