Summary

This course will be delivered in person at the Europa Hotel on 27 November from 9:30am to 1:30pm. Further information including joining instructions will be emailed to you a few days before the event.

Who should attend

This event is suitable for accountants and other business professionals, at all levels and from all sectors, given the scope and fast-moving pace of the sessions.

Course overview

Participants will gain an understanding of the following key topics:

• Different Minds, Shared Goals: Embracing Neurodiversity in the Modern Workplace
  This session will share insights on building neuroinclusive workplaces that empower every mind to thrive.
• From Insight to Oversight: Accountants and the EU AI Act
  This session will discuss your obligations under the EU AI Act and how to implement compliant, ethical AI practices in your organisation.
• Financial Reporting Update
  This session will provide an accounting update on financial reporting standards.
• Company Law in Focus: What's changed, what's next
  This session will discuss recent developments and changes in company law over the last 12 months.
• Stay ahead of the Curve: Tax Trends and Technical Shifts – Tom Penman
  Tom will deliver a quick-fire session on the latest developments and updates across the main tax headings in 2025.

Key Learning Outcomes

Appreciate the key Financial Reporting, Company Law and Taxation issues affecting their businesses and organisations and gain an understanding on Neurodiversity in the Workplace and the EU AI Act.

Speaker Bios

• Christine Kearney – Autism NI -Autism NI is Northern Ireland’s main Autism Charity. We support autistic people and their families and campaign for autism acceptance within society. As Director of Development, Christine Kearney works to improve autism acceptance, inclusion and accessibility across Northern Ireland. This includes within the health and education sector, public services and private sector. Christine manages the development and facilitation of accredited training courses and the Autism Impact Award Programme, which supports organisations to demonstrate their accessibility and inclusion.
• Ramy Ebeid – CeADAR
• Dympna Cassidy - Deloitt, Financial REporting Advisory Team - Dympna is a director working in the Financial Reporting Advisory team in Deloitte Ireland LLP. She has a BA in Accounting and Finance from Dublin City University and is a Chartered Accountant. She has 12 years’ experience in practice including time in audit and accounting advisory and significant experience in respect of International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union (“IFRS”), the suite of Irish GAAP frameworks (including FRS 101 and FRS 102) and U.S GAAP. Dympna has been part of the Financial Reporting Advisory team in Deloitte for the past number of years and has worked on clients in a wide variety of industries supporting them with their technical accounting needs.
• Tom Penman – Tax and Training Ltd -Tom specialises in complex tax planning, structuring groups of companies, international tax, enquiries, providing tax efficient succession and inheritance tax planning and deals with all aspects of income tax and capital gains tax.
• Sinead Fox Hamilton - Chatered Accountants Ireland

Contact us

If you have any questions regarding this or any other CPD course or requirements, please feel free to contact the team here or call us at (+353) 01 523 3930.

Note for Legacy CPA Members

Members who joined Chartered Accountants Ireland following 1 September 2024, please continue to book on the CPA Portal to ensure you receive your membership discount.