Professional skills courses
Modern accountants need more than technical know-how to succeed. These CPD courses help you build the personal and professional capabilities that set you apart, including communication, leadership, and critical thinking, as well as negotiation, ethics, and emotional intelligence. Develop the confidence and versatility to lead, influence, and excel in every aspect of your career.
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Managing People in Finance
For many businesses, people are the largest cost. This course will help you to get everyone lined up and enthusiastic about achieving the organisation’s goals, and ensure they are as productive as they can be.
£100 +VAT -
Presenting Numerical Data
Explore how effective use of data can enable informed business decisions and win support for ideas. In this course, you’ll discover how to express numerical data through visuals, analyse and interpret data and create persuasive business presentations.
£100 +VAT -
The Resilient Finance Professional
Working in a finance and accounting environment often means facing a multitude of pressures. Explore how you can overcome these stresses and complicated tasks, and learn the methods needed for becoming a more resilient leader and team member.
£100 +VAT -
Thinking Strategically
Discover the skills and tools needed to make effective strategic decisions, to embed strategic thinking in your organisation and to become a strategic thinker.
£100 +VAT -
Problem Solving for Accountants
This course will help you to develop one of the key skills of the accountant of the future. Learn how to establish the root causes of problems and master a variety of problem-solving techniques to help you develop, propose and implement effective solutions for your organisation.
£100 +VAT -
Professional Credibility
Building your professional credibility is important in order to be seen as knowledgeable, fair and dependable. Understand how you can do this, with practical steps covering business acumen, professional scepticism, ethics, communication and your authoritative voice.
£100 +VAT -
The Finance Business Partner
As a finance business partner, you need credibility and influence within the management team. This course looks at the finance business partner role, and how you can develop to take on this strategic role in your or your clients’ businesses
£100 +VAT -
Finance Business Partner
The role of a Finance Business Partner demands a combination of business acumen, insight and emotional intelligence. This pathway will help you to cultivate those skills and become a trusted advisor to your colleagues and clients.
£400 +VAT -
Trusted Advisor
Trusted advisor relationships generate new revenue streams for your practice, rewarding work for you, and delighted and loyal clients. To create these new relationships, you will need to understand your clients’ businesses, build genuine relationships with them, and add real value to their operations. This pathway will enable you to develop all the skills you…
£400 +VAT -
Expert Communicator
As an ambitious finance professional, clear communication is vital in propelling your career forward. This pathway explores best practice in communication, and how you can work more effectively with colleagues to persuade and influence people.
£400 +VAT -
Finding Solutions: The Curious Accountant
Do you struggle to generate opportunities for creative and critical thinking within your role? This course helps you embrace curiosity, approach challenges with fresh thinking, and find ways to create meaningful change in your workplace.
£100 +VAT -
Negotiation Skills for Accountants
Revised and up to date for 2024. Negotiation is crucial for every finance professional and takes place in the context of important long-term business relationships. Prepare yourself for effective negotiations so you can achieve your desired outcome, without undermining relationships you value.
£100 +VAT