Conference One for Practitioners

Key Features:

• Recent developments
• Update on latest changes
• Review of important Business Tax Issues
• Comment and news from the Business Tax world.

You will walk away with...

• An Update on all the important recent business tax changes
• Matters arising form on recent changes in the Finance Bill/Act/Budget statements
• Details of recent tax cases and tribunal decisions
• MTD – where are we now? Is deferral really deferral?
• Review of recent HMRC statements and press releases
• Summary of current planning issues and hot topics

Speaker: Russell Cockburn

This session will seek to bring delegates up to speed in terms of current and prospective threats and trends in economic crime (including fraud, money laundering and illicit financial flows), forthcoming legislation and regulations which impact directly or indirectly upon the accounting profession and best practice in relation to the recognition and mitigation of risk within the profession.

This session will address the following issues but will be contextualised for the SME environment. 

• Nature and Impact of Economic Crime

• Legislative Environment
• Mitigation of Economic Crime and the Demonstration of Best Practice

Delegates will leave the session with an appreciation of the threats posed by economic crime, broadly defined, and with a keener understanding of the importance of placing the notion of risk and risk management into a national, regional and global context in order to effectively challenge the notion of fixed threat vectors within an ever-evolving risk environment. Beyond that, delegates will leave with a firm understanding of how current and prospective legislation will is likely to impinge upon the daily working lives of professional accountants per se and in conjunction with the clients they serve and the tasks undertaken for them.

Speaker: Rob McCusker. 

Accountants are often asked about employment matters when giving general business advice or running payrolls. This session covers the employment law principles and recent updates for situations that may cross your desk.

Key features: 

• Annual leave – extra bank holidays and entitlements plus what to pay including the Harpur Trust v Brazel decision
• Unfair dismissal – identify when your clients may be at risk and how to approach settlement agreements
• Employment status – employee, worker and self-employed contractor (including IR35 developments) and the importance of getting status in practice right.
• Changes to employee and worker rights under the Good Work Plan
• Terms and conditions of employment – when to issue a contract or a statement, what to include and how to make changes. Includes the new code of practice on ‘fire and rehire’
• Restructuring and redundancy awareness for employers making changes due to the current climate

Speaker: Sue West

We live in uncertain and challenging times with unprecedented economic and social change on a global scale. The disruption and chaos must inevitably affect every person, organisation, and nation, now and well into the future.

As always, times of great upheaval bring dangers and opportunities. One thing is for sure: business and personal transformation is not optional if we want to thrive in uncertain times.

So how do we become more resilient and effective when facing major challenges?

We start by positively embracing the ongoing process of growth.

This includes:

1. Understanding the four main stages in any change journey.
2. Recognising what we can and cannot change along the way; and
3. Changing our perspective and finding creative solutions to problems.

This is foundational to having less stress, more joy, and greater productivity.

This engaging session draws upon timeless wisdom and will enable attendees to:

• Maintain a balanced perspective on the inevitable ups and downs of life
• Handle doubt and confusion with more confidence
• Take away a valuable map to signpost the stages every person and organisation must go through to reach more of their potential

Speaker: Peter Milligan.