The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act 2009 (“the Act”) has been extended to cover accountants in public practice undertaking activities subject to the Act. Our members need to be ready to comply with the new legislation from 1 October 2018.

Post the release of the Panama Papers and the Sherwin Inquiry (amongst other things), the government has responded to restore New Zealand’s reputation as a transparent and low risk market by extending the requirements of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Finance of Terrorism Act 2009 to accountants in public practice from 1 October 2018. This webinar series will give you tools, skills and practical insights to implement the new AML/CFT requirements in your practice, from initial risk assessment to reporting processes.

This recorded one-hour length IFRS 9 – Fundamentals of Financial Instruments webinar will delve into the key changes of IFRS 9, offer practical insights for transition and enable you to understand the implementation requirements.

This recorded one-hour length IFRS 15 – Fundamentals of Revenue from Contracts with Customers webinar will delve into the key changes to revenue recognition accounting brought about by IFRS 15. The standard could significantly change how many entities recognise revenue, especially those that currently apply industry-specific guidance.

This series of four recorded webinars will explore perspectives for you, as a finance professional, to develop a greater strategic understanding of your organisation, recognise the dynamic environment in which you operate and explore and exploit smart technologies to performance manage the strategic outcomes.

This recorded one-hour length IFRS 16 – Fundamentals of Leases webinar will delve into the key changes and practical implications to lease accounting brought about by IFRS 16.

Learn how lean organisations have been able to produce the annual plan quickly, in less than two weeks, and eventually replace it with a quarterly rolling planning process. Learn about how rolling forecasting is the key to funding on a quarterly rolling basis, the setting of monthly budgets a quarter ahead, and meeting your banker’s and Board requirements.

Eliminating time out of the month-end reporting process is the first step along the journey to becoming a lean finance team.

This series of recorded webinars is intended to give analysts, managers and senior managers (would-be and otherwise) an overview of the key concepts, tools and skills to undertake timely and efficient strategic forecasting in the 21st century.

This webinar will provide a practical demonstration of accounting processes, systems and theory for those seeking a broader understanding of their role in the finance team. The webinar is designed to give participants an understanding of what happens in accounting behind the computer screen.

This 4 part recorded webinar series will introduce and build awareness and basic competence with professional accountants in the field of Systems Thinking & Scenario-Based Strategy.

This recorded webinar will provide information and answer questions about AML/CFT regime. It will summarise who should be a reporting entity and what key elements need to be in a risk assessment and AML/CFT programme, clarify what activities are captured and what needs to be obtained to meet ID and address verification requirements.