Can learning about finance be fun? I believe the answer is yes! There are many ways to make financial training fun and here are some examples: Cashflow 101 Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad / Poor Dad fame has developed a board game called Cashflow 101 to reinforce the financial principles developed in his books. The [...]

Why is managing risk important for accountants? A key role of the finance function is risk management. Given the current economic environment managing business risk is exceedingly high on board meeting agendas. Whilst risk management is the responsibility of all board directors – the role is often led the finance director. Questions which should be [...]

Learn about Accountancy Practice Management Online • Are you an accountant in practice? • Do you have an agreed strategy for your firm? Successful accountancy practices understand what makes them different. They have a clear plan, they understand their practice model and have strong people, technology, risk management and client relationship strategies. Practice Management for [...]

A recent thought provoking lecture from the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, a world expert in education and creativity talked about “Changing Education Paradigms”. Reforming Public Education Many countries are reforming their education systems to prepare for the future. The problem, argues Sir Ken, is that they are preparing for the future by doing what [...]

The benefits in in-house financial training courses The majority of our training is delivered on an in-house basis to our clients, whether large, small, public or private. There are considerable benefits of training in-house as opposed to a public or open course. We’ve outlined some of the benefits below. Please have a look and send [...]

Can we use financial rewards to motivate people in organisations? Money is clearly a motivator in the world but does it lead to increase profit? Certainly basic economic theory and practice in organisations would lead you to believe this is the case. If you don’t pay people enough they won’t be motivated……but can you increase [...]

Why Forensic accounting? A quick google search showed around 1,730,000 results. Over 220 people on linkedin use it as a specific job title. There are double digit job vacancies for forensic accounting on both Reed and Monster recruitment websites – even when other jobs are scarce. So what does a Forensic Accountant do? Forensic accountants’ [...]

Why undertake professional development? We all experience continual and rapid change in the way we work and learn. New technologies are continually developed and organisational structures are in a constant state of flux. We are continually presented new concepts that we need to absorb, learn and master. Traditionally, people may have expected jobs for life. [...]

One of my favourite optical illusions is the spinning lady illusion. This is a apparent test of left and right brain dominance. Clockwise and Anti-Clockwise (Counter-Clockwise) Firstly let’s establish our understanding of clockwise and anti (or counter) clockwise. The first arrow is definitely pointing clockwise and the second anti clockwise Spinning Lady Optical Illusion Now [...]

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