September 2009 Events

£10 per team of 5; £2 each. Prizes for team and individuals. Places are on a first come first served basis.

Fee payable: Members £10.00 / Non-members £10.00

Speaker: Val Steward

1-5 places: £60.50+VAT per seminar. 6-11 places: £49.50+VAT per seminar. 12+ places: £46.50+VAT per seminar.

Fee payable: see description

Speaker: Tony Jenkins

1-5 places: £60.50+VAT per seminar. 6-11 places: £49.50+VAT per seminar. 12+ places: £46.50+VAT per seminar.

Fee payable: see description

Team of 8 people required

Fee payable: TBC

Speaker: Grant Thornton

Fee payable: Members £5.00 / Non-members £10.00

Speaker: Bob Pinder (ICAEW), Allison Broad (ICAEW), Rowan Duffin-Jones (ICAEW), John Morton (ICAEW), Tracy Stanhope (ICAEW), Nick Pike (Lawrence Graham) and Steven Fennell (Halliwells)

The ICAEW’s Professional Standards Department will be holding a series of five roadshows for insolvency practitioners and their staff. The roadshows will cover legal, regulatory and topical issues and we will be demonstrating our new online network for the insolvency community.

No charge

Speaker: Sean Duffy, Richard Furgusson & Jamie Reed

No charge

Speaker: Louise Dunford

1-5 places: £60.50+VAT per seminar. 6-11 places: £49.50+VAT per seminar. 12+ places: £46.50+VAT per seminar.

Fee payable: see description

Speaker: John Selwood

In summary the session will cover directors' responsibility to consider the validity of the going concern basis, Insolvent and wrongful trading, Audit procedures, Auditors report, Risk assessment .

Fee payable: Members £10.00 / Non-members £10.00

Speaker: John Selwood

The session is intended for directors and accountants to help them understand their responsibilities when businesses are in financial difficulty.

Fee payable: Members £10.00 / Non-members £10.00

Speaker: Gary Brothers, RSM Bentley Jennison

This event has been arranged with the Leeds Branch of the AAT

Fee payable: Members free / Non-members £15.00

Speaker: Simon Hurst, a Chartered Accountant, has been involved in computer software for 16 years. His training organisation, The Knowledge Base, provides a wide range of training and consultancy services to accountants and other professionals.

See website for cost of the event. The key topics coverd will be 20 indispensable functions – from the simple to the slightly more complicated; including the hidden date function that they didn't want you to know about 20 better ways of working with formulae – important techniques to make Excel formulae easier to enter, understand and troubleshoot. 10 quick wins. Techniques and Excel features to add value to your Excel spreadsheets – from improved formatting to the Excel camera 40 keyboard and mouse shortcuts – sometimes it's the simplest things that can save the most time Top 10 Excel tips – impress your colleagues and amaze friends and family - a countdown of the most useful Excel tips.

Fee payable: TBC

Speaker: Simon Hurst, a Chartered Accountant, has been involved in computer software for 16 years. His training organisation, The Knowledge Base, provides a wide range of training and consultancy services to accountants and other professionals.

See website for cost of the event. Nearly all accountants use spreadsheets, and in particular Microsoft Excel, to deal with a multitude of tasks. From handling simple internal calculations to presenting financial information, most spreadsheets could be made more reliable and could present their results more effectively with the application of a key Excel techniques and features. This course will look at making spreadsheets more interactive through the use of macros and form controls and will also look at some advanced techniques for presenting information. The topics covered in this course will be Designing for accuracy and reliability Using macros to automate processes Creating interactive spreadsheets – using buttons, spinners, lists and other controls to help users get more out of your spreadsheets Giving spreadsheets more impact – using Excel's existing graphics tools effectively Case study – from accounting data to dashboard. Extract, update and summarise accounting data and automatically turn it into a report pack or dashboard

Fee payable: TBC

Come and join us for an evening of networking and a short quiz in the pleasant surroundings of Mr Foley's Bar on The Headrow, Leeds. Fee and Booking details TBC

Fee payable: TBC

Tickets £75, Tables of 10 £700. Red carpet drinks reception. Sumptuous 4 course celebratory dinner. Sizzling 10 scene catwalk display. Celebrity raffle. Entertainment until late.

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Speaker: Peter Hughes

No charge

Speaker: Andy Simmonds, Ian Mackintosh, Brian Shearer, Kathryn Cearns

£57.50 (incl VAT) for Financial Reporting Faculty members. £92.00 (incl VAT) for non Financial Reporting Faculty members. After the excellent feedback from its first update event, held in London in June 2009, the Faculty has arranged a further update for its members, in Wakefield. Those attending this event will benefit from a timely update from experts in UK GAAP and IFRS covering the many recent and forthcoming changes to standards and legislation. They will also have the opportunity to participate in the single most important debate affecting Uk private companies and the not for profit sector for a generation: the future shape of UK GAAP, including the FRSSE and SORPs, given the process of convergence with IFRS and the advent in July 2009 of a new, simplified form of IFRS aimed at SMEs.

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Speaker: Panel from HMRC

Representatives from HMRC will join us on 29 September. As at previous meetings there will be a panel from the HMRC so a great chance to ask any questions you have about burning issues. Please submit questions to Esta Andrews at least 7 days before the event. Buffet lunch will follow the session.

Fee payable: Members £10.00 / Non-members £10.00

£5pp incl buffet. Open to all young professionals.

Fee payable: Members £5.00 / Non-members £5.00

Fee payable TBC. Teams of 4.

Fee payable: TBC