The course will focus on recent developments and assess their impact. The accounting section will cover the latest news on the IFRS based FRSME; Government proposals for audit exemption; what the future holds for the FRSSE; review Panel activity. The auditing section will be covered in the last hour and will look at the issues concerning clarity; audit report changes; impact of revised ethical standards and latest monitoring reports.

2012 sees another change in the capital allowances arena. With IBA’s and ABA’s officially dead and buried, and more changes to both AIA and WDA’s, practitioners will hope that the pace of change will now slow.

This course will provide a refresher of the current position for claimants and deal with some of the more tricky areas including capital allowances in respect of furnished holiday lettings, the definition of a dwelling for capital allowance purposes, and the review of the new capital allowances regime for green energy products such as photovoltaic generating equipment.

This course will cover the key provisions of the Finance Act 2012 in detail, highlighting the practical impact of the changes and the issues you may need to follow up with your clients.

This course aims to equip participants with the skills needed to talk to clients about the vitally important area of IHT and death. Even in a recession, IHT planning needs to be kept under review as lower values can make planning simpler. This seminar will include a refresher on lifetime planning, using exemption and reliefs and also consider whether we still need to be using nil rate bands in a lifetime; practical points on tax planning through wills and will also examine estate planning vehicles both for tax and family reasons, trusts and traps for the unwary and alternative structures.

Our series of Tax Update courses will bring you up to speed with all that has happened since the last Tax Update course. The sessions will cover all direct tax developments and tax administration developments of significance. The Spring Tax Update sessions will cover material announced at the end of 2011 and early in 2012; later sessions will include material from Budget 2012. The sessions will also cover important case law decisions, and a review of First-tier Tribunal cases of general relevance.

Our series of Tax Update courses will bring you up to speed with all that has happened since the last Tax Update course. The sessions will cover all direct tax developments and tax administration developments of significance. The Summer Tax Update will include Budget and Finance Bill material, together with case law developments and important announcements by HMRC occurring since the Spring Tax Update course.

This course will examine the impact of taxation on the financial statements of individual companies and groups. The session will discuss which taxes are included as part of operating costs and which are presented as tax as well as how current and deferred tax balances are calculated, presented and disclosed in the financial statements. The impact of taxation on fair values of assets will be examined and UK GAAP, IFRS and the proposed UK GAAP for medium-sized entities will all be addressed.

This course will set out the current tax planning issues affecting owner managed businesses, including incorporation advice, tax efficient extraction of funds from a company, pension planning and other topical advice relevant to smaller businesses. The practical impact of a range of recent changes will be dealt with, highlighting current and emerging tax planning issues.

This session will explain VAT changes announced in the 12 months prior to the course, and highlight current problem areas for clients, suggesting solutions. Tribunal decisions affecting VAT and the impact of the new VAT penalty regime will also be covered.

Our series of Tax Update courses will bring you up to speed with all that has happened since the last Tax Update course. The sessions will cover all direct tax developments and tax administration developments of significance. The Winter tax update will highlight issues that have developed since the Finance Act 2012 received Royal Assent, and to the extent that announcements have been made, proposals for Finance Bill 2013. Case law developments since the Summer Tax Update will also be highlighted.