Irelands Longest Running Accounting CPD

The Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants has the longest running compulsory CPD program among the professional accounting bodies in Ireland.

The IIPA's CPD is second to none. It has developed over many years and is now at the stage where events are regularly attended by more than 80 people. We also welcome non-members to all of our events. In recent times our CPD has included:

• Preventing and Detecting Fraud
• VAT for Practitioners and Industry
• 5 free Computer Programs for use in your Practice
• Regular updates on the Finance Acts and other changes in law
• Issues for consideration when auditing a company limited by guarantee
• Company Law updates
• Commercial Mediation
• Updates on Accounting Standards
• Preparing for a Monitoring Visit

This years CPD program is no different, with its mix of cutting-edge practice improvement and growth and knowledge improving technical sessions. We are also examining new delivery methods so that we continue to offer fresh and exciting training sessions to our members and guests.

Online CPD

Harnessing the Latest Technology

The Institute has always been an agile and proactive organisation, and no where has this been more obvious than in CPD. We are now moving to a new high with the recent launch of true on-line CPD for the first time in Ireland. While we have been offering CPD that can be downloaded from the Internet for a number of years, we have recently moved to an online learning management system (LMS).

This LMS, which is called Moodle (well we didn't name it) is a free, open source package designed sound educational principals to help educators create effective online learning environments. Despite the fact that it is free it is a state of the art solution in use by many of the best known educational institutes in the world such as California State University, University of York, The Open University, UCC, Dublin Business School, and DCU.

This forms part of the IIPA's "Institute of Finance Training" initiative, which aims to provide a single finance training solution for individuals and business. When fully operational, the initiative will offer a range of online learning from 1/2 day training courses on VAT to a post graduate diploma in Audit and Assurance. You can find out more about the Institute of Finance Training here.

Doing CPD Elsewhere ?

Following the lead of the Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants, many other professional bodies are now undertaking offering CPD to their members. In some cases this is now mandatory.

IIPA members who are also member of other professional bodies, whether they are accounting bodies or not, will usually be offered a credit towards their CPD requirements where they attend a non-IIPA CPD event. In addition we will recognise non-CPD and non-accounting events where these can be shown to have some relevance to Professional Development. Examples might include:

• IT Training
• Management Training
• Legal Training
• Mediation Training
• Any other relevant Training
• Pursuing certain undergraduate and postgraduate studies
• Pursuing the qualification of another professional body
• Voluntary services on behalf of the IIPA
• Providing training or lecturing

This is not an exhaustive list and if you would like to have a particular activity considered for recognition feel free to contact Head Office to discuss the matter further.