2025 Essentials CPD schedule

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Schedule Description: View ICAEW's Essentials CPD Virtual 2025 Programme.

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Designed, written, and delivered by leading subject matter experts, the Essentials CPD programme will provide you and your team with technical know-how, and meet your individual annual CPD requirement.

Description
2025 courses by month

Welcome to the Essentials CPD Virtual 2025 Programme
Watch | Learn | Grow

This year's enhanced programme consists of 58 individual courses, devised around technical core topics and updates covering titles across:

• Audit and Assurance
• Financial Reporting
• Charity
• Legal
• Practice
• Tax
• Tech and Data
• Business
• Sustainability
• Industry

Designed, written, and delivered by leading subject matter experts, the Essentials CPD programme will provide you and your team with technical know-how, and meet your individual annual CPD requirement.

All the courses are delivered by live webinar, with dedicated Q&A sessions, providing the opportunity to interact with the speaker and to discuss real-life scenarios. Webinars are also made available to view via on-demand, providing a convenient CPD solution for the busy finance professionals in practice or industry and charity sectors.

The programme is relevant to ICAEW members and to non-members, and is accessible to all finance professionals.

Browse the 'Courses by month' tab to view our 2025 programme.

Please see our available courses, by month in the tables below.

Click on any of the dates or titles within the table to be directed to the booking page.

Alternatively, you can view the full programme in PDF format by clicking here.

Please note the dates on the table below are the live webinar dates. Once the date has passed, they will be made available on demand.

March

Title	Topic	Date
Employment taxes update	Tax	On Demand (Live date - 25 March)

April

Title	Topic	Date
Finance Act	Tax	On Demand (Live date - 23 April)

May

Title	Topic	Date
Why fraud is hard to audit for and how to detect it	Audit & Assurance	On Demand (Live date - 1 May)
Becoming an effective Audit RI	Audit & Assurance	On Demand (Live date - 6 May)
Solicitors advanced update - deeper dive of critical areas, lessons learnt, compliance and hot topics	Industry - Solicitors	On Demand (Live date - 8 May)
Charity audit & independent examinations – the essentials	Audit & Assurance	On Demand (Live date - 14 May)
Directors and related party transactions – key issues for accountants & auditors	Audit & Assurance, Corporate Reporting	15 May
AML responsibilities - An MLRO toolkit	Legal	16 May
Corporation Tax Spring update	Tax	20 May
Personal Tax Spring update (inc income tax and capital taxes)	Tax	21 May

June

Title	Topic	Date
Small and micro entity accounting	Corporate Reporting	2 June
Materiality and sampling – getting it right	Audit & Assurance	3 June
Spring Tax update	Tax	4 June
Pension scheme accounts and audits – the essentials	Audit & Assurance, Corporate Reporting	5 June
Audit and Assurance Spring update	Audit & Assurance	9 June
VAT Spring update and current issues	Tax	11 June
ISA315 Risk Assessment and how to plan and perform a test of controls	Audit & Assurance	12 June
Charity accounts and accounting: key things to know	Charity	13 June
Topical audit problems and solutions from the ICAEW helpline	Audit & Assurance	16 June
Tax update for audit and accounts staff	Tax	17 June
Brush up your tax knowledge - business & corporation tax	Tax	18 June
Group accounting essentials	Corporate Reporting	19 June
Accounting for financial instruments	Corporate Reporting	23 June
Farming advanced update 1	Industry - Farming	24 June
Delivering high quality audits efficiently	Audit & Assurance	25 June
Accounting / Corporate Reporting Spring update	Corporate Reporting	26 June
Farming advanced update 2	Industry - Farming	27 June
Farming advanced update 3	Industry - Farming	30 June
Smaller company accounting queries from ICAEW helplines	Corporate Reporting	30 June

September

Title	Topic	Date
Anti-Money Laundering update	Legal	10 September
Acting for Doctors advanced update 1	Industry - Doctors	22 September
Acting for Doctors advanced update 2	Industry - Doctors	23 September
Carbon accounting 101	Sustainability	29 September
Brush up your tax knowledge - Personal income & capital gains	Tax	30 September

October

Title	Topic	Date
Understanding Sustainability for financial professionals	Sustainability	1 October
Revised ISA 600 - Auditing groups	Audit & Assurance	6 October
ISQM 1 & 2 – Staying on track	Audit & Assurance	7 October
Best practice & hot topics for Audit RIs	Audit & Assurance	8 October
Artificial Intelligence fundamentals for Accountants	Data & Tech	10 October
Acting for Doctors NHS Pensions update 1	Industry - Doctors	13 October
Acting for Doctors NHS Pensions update 2	Industry - Doctors	14 October
Key tax developments for accountants in business	Tax	16 October
Practice assurance	Practice	21 October
Personal Tax Autumn update (inc Income tax and capital taxes)	Tax	22 October
Corporation Tax Autumn update	Tax	23 October
Planning and forecasting in an increasingly uncertain world	Business	24 October

November

Title	Topic	Date
Periodic review – The Essentials guide to leasing	Corporate Reporting	3 November
Budget 2025	Tax	4 November
Audit and Assurance Autumn update	Audit & Assurance	10 November
Accounting / Corporate Reporting Autumn update	Corporate Reporting	11 November
Periodic review amendments to FRS 102: the impact on small company disclosures	Corporate Reporting	12 November
Auditing accounting estimates	Audit & Assurance	17 November
Autumn Tax update	Tax	18 November
Periodic review – The Essentials guide to revenue (Part 1)	Corporate Reporting	20 November
Charity accounting, reporting and governance update	Charity	24 November
VAT Autumn update and current issues	Tax	25 November
Estimates, experts & service organisation – Key issues for SME auditors	Audit & Assurance	26 November
Periodic review – The Essentials guide to revenue (Part 2)	Corporate Reporting	27 November

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