Accountant’s Update Programme 2026 (International)

This programme provides you with updates on IFRS, auditing, reporting, and ethics. It will help you to develop the professional and technical skills you will need to survive in a rapidly changing business environment.

3rd Feb 2026

365 days’ access

22 CPD hours

£500 +VAT

SAVE 10% USING CODE: ACPD101

Programme Features

  • 22 verifiable CPD hours across the year
  • Facilitator to help you keep on track
  • New content every month
  • Topical news impacting accountants
  • Complete at your own pace
  • Verifiable CPD Certificate on completion

About this Programme

Businesses need the expert and trusted advice of their finance professionals more than ever. With the global economy navigating a fragile recovery, ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, inflationary pressure, and rising trade tensions and tariffs, we continue to face economic uncertainty and volatility.

Understanding the business environment and keeping up to date with regulatory changes will enable you to support your organisation’s short-term and long-term goals, communicate effectively with key stakeholders, and help drive better financial decisions.

The Accountant’s Update Programme 2026 will follow the latest developments in IFRS, auditing, and financial management. You’ll also explore emerging topics such as AI in accounting and the evolving regulatory and geopolitical landscape that impacts global trade and finance.

Complete all your 2026 CPD over 11 months, and keep yourself informed, up to date and confident in your role.

How it works

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Learn through a combination of articles, videos, bite-size news and quizzes

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Complete your CPD reflection after each module

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Your CPD Certificate is stored securely until you need it

Look inside

Technical Updates

In-depth coverage of the latest developments in financial reporting and regulation.

Professional Updates

Hear what our team of experts have to say about the future of the profession and the skills you’ll need.

Quick Updates

If it happens, you’ll know about it. Don’t miss a thing with our regular briefings and updates on key topical news.

CPD Support

Your facilitator will e-mail you each month to introduce the learning, and to cajole and encourage you. You can log on and complete the learning whenever it is convenient for you.

What’s Covered

Technical updates in
  • Ethics
  • IFRS
  • Audit
  • Real World Forecasting
  • Cost Optimisation and Business Performance
  • Cost Management
Professional updates in
  • Excel
  • Business Continuity
  • Agility in Finance
  • Data Analysis
  • Leadership Skills
  • Writing Basics: Grammar and Style
  • Stress Management
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Global Trends
Quick updates in
  • News and commentary on events in and around the profession as they happen.

Reviews

  • I’ve found it very useful and it keeps me disciplined over the year, rather than scrambling for last-minute CPD hours towards the end of the year. I also enjoy the mix of technical accounting and management skills topics in each monthly module.
    Fiona Timmons
  • Topics chosen are excellent and depth is neither too shallow or too deep. Timing of topics is perfect especially after budgets or statements. Use of speakers and authors who are top experts in their field. Not all hard skills, soft skills also included which are most relevant and frequently get overlooked.
    Antoinette Mulcahy
  • I have enjoyed this programme as it has given me a broad spectrum of CPD subjects which is broken up into manageable chunks. I quite often do this work on train journeys to my clients and I also draw on this information regularly when presenting or participating in meetings.
    Helen Sach