2025-26 Update: The Year in Accountancy

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In an unpredictable world, timely insight has never mattered more. This course reviews key developments to help you meet the demands of clients, colleagues and businesses.

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4 CPD hours

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2025-26 Update: The Year in Accountancy

(12 customer reviews)

£150 +VAT

4 CPD Course

365 days’ access

Use ACPD101 for 10% off any purchase.

2025-26 Update: The Year in Accountancy

(12 customer reviews)

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This course will enable you to

  • Navigate the current challenges and opportunities facing accountants
  • Learn from the consequences of big audit, accounting and business failures
  • Consider how geopolitics and economic events might impact you and your organisation
  • Explore the newest AI trends, and take the lead on technology
  • Plan ahead in the evolving world of financial reporting
  • Anticipate potential audit challenges and meet those confidently

About the course

Accountants are navigating a year shaped by political instability, rapid technological acceleration and growing expectations around environmental and social reporting. With businesses seeking clarity in uncertain conditions, the pressure to provide accurate, timely insight has never been greater.This course explores the major headlines and developments that defined 2025, from regulatory updates and economic shifts to advances in AI and changes in corporate reporting practices. It brings together the key themes influencing professional judgement, risk awareness and the wider finance landscape going into 2026.You値l come away with a clearer view of the forces shaping the profession, the confidence to anticipate emerging pressures and the perspective needed to guide your organisation or clients through another year of complexity.

Contents

Challenges

Key challenges for the profession
The future of banking regulation
Discord over tax harmonisation
Fair and effective performance management
The demands on accountants

Failures

Why failure matters
Missing filing deadlines
Thomas Cook audit failings
Tesla on a rocky road
The fatal consequences of financial stress

Economics

Economic uncertainty
Trump times ahead
Unintended consequences of tariffs
Tariffs, uncertainty and risk
Economic factors

Technology and AI

Keeping up with AI
Emerging AI technologies
AI Upskilling Insights
Leveraging AI in AML systems
AI in accounting education
Industry 5.0
Taking the lead on technology

Reporting

Latest reporting standards and guidance
Fair value accounting
Updates to going concern
Going concern and small business
Choosing your words
Materiality and sustainability
Is sustainability sustainable?

Audit

Audit challenges
Audit monitoring concerns at the start of the year
Complacency in audit firms
Audit quality in the spotlight again
Issues with ISQM 1

Author

AccountingCPD

This course has been written by the AccountingCPD author team.

12 reviews for 2025-26 Update: The Year in Accountancy

  1. David Glen –

    Content is interesting, but this is a lot of just reading text!!

  2. Christine Holland –

    Covered a range of topics but not always easy to see how they impact my day to day work

  3. Eva Fehervari –

    This course gave a broad knowledge about a number of areas, so covered focus and key risk areas for 2026.

  4. Finbarr Ronayne –

    Good comprehensive update on the key audit and financial reporting changes during 2025. Would suggest the introduction of more quiz sections in this module.

  5. Tim Blackmore –

    Briiliant overview of all major issues

  6. Pauline Borg –

    Very useful information to assist with keeping up to date with recent developments in the accountancy profession.

  7. suzanne Lindsey –

    Interesting and relevant content

  8. James Wright-Anderson –

    too long

  9. Vasanti Hirani –

    Very informative

  10. Hamza Khan –

    Highly useful information on many topical subjects. Would highly recommend this to other members.

  11. Ana Iglesias Blanco –

    Because it was beneficial to guide other CPD courses, identify news and challenges, guide next training decisions, and address new opportunities as they arose.

  12. Mpunikira Bahati –

    This course has touched the core areas of the work I do on a daily basis especially that my firm has been sanctioned by the local regulatory body after inspection of some of our audit files.

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