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.
Managing Conflict
Conflict is a regular part of life in finance. This course helps you understand its root causes and develop practical techniques to manage emotions, give feedback, and achieve constructive outcomes within your team.
£150 +VAT
Time Management
If you need help managing your time more effectively, this is the course for you. It gives practical advice on how to be more organised and productive, as well as how to get more out of your meetings, and how to manage an excessive workload.
£150 +VAT
Writing a Business Plan
This course will help you to create a well-constructed business plan that enables decision makers to better understand the potential project and helps you to ensure the idea and the finances make sense. Discover the role of the accountant in writing an effective business plan.
£150 +VAT
Developing CFO Behaviours
This course will take you beyond the fundamentals of being a CFO and allow you to embody the leadership role. You will build your interpersonal skills so that you can positively influence your team and develop the behaviours of a respected leader. Begin today to develop a clearer vision for your career.
£150 +VAT
Managing People in Finance
Managing people is one of the biggest challenges in finance. This course explores how to lead, coach, and support your team to stay aligned, motivated, and effective.
£150 +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.
£150 +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.
£150 +VAT
Thinking Strategically
Strategic thinking isn’t just for boards and leadership teams. This course helps you develop practical strategic skills so you can make better decisions, prioritise effectively, and think beyond day‑to‑day firefighting.
£150 +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.
£150 +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.
£150 +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
£150 +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.
£500 +VAT