Charity accounting (February 2025)
Timings: 09.30-16.30 (UK time)
AAT Masterclass: Gain an unmissable technical and practical understanding of charity accounting.
Additional winter sale discount for FMAAT members: From £85 (Non-members £132)
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Course Type
Live online course
Date
12 Feb 2025, 09.30
Length
1 day
What you’ll achieve
- Cover the technical requirements needed to work in the preparation of charity accounts
- Gain guidance on how to avoid common pitfalls
- Gain practical skills that you can start to implement immediately
- Become confident in giving advice and support your business and/or clients.
About this course
Over this one-day course, you’ll come away with a detailed understanding of charity financial reporting
promotion regulations, the implications for fund accounting rules on financial reporting, income recognition issues, charity-specific balance sheet considerations, requirements for trustees’ annual reports and more.
This course is ideal for members in practice with clients in the charity sector, as well as those in finance teams working with non-profit organisations.
In addition, if you are thinking about taking on these clients or would like to understand the specialised knowledge of the unique accounting and financial aspects of non-profit organisations and charity’s, don’t miss this session.
This webinar will not deal with charity taxation issues.
Meet the Speaker(s)
James Charlton
James Charlton
James is an experienced trainer, file reviewer and consultant. He has delivered courses on behalf of various professional accountancy bodies in the UK, as well as providing in-house training for accounting and audit firms. His specialisms are financial reporting (both UK GAAP and IFRS), audit and he has a particular interest in the charity sector. In addition to training, James undertakes both cold and hot file reviews for audit practices, ranging from single partner to UK Top 50 firms.
James previously worked as an Audit Technical Manager at a UK top 10 firm, providing financial reporting and audit technical advice to the audit and accountancy departments, writing and reviewing technical materials for the practice, and performing engagement quality control reviews on audit files.
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Syllabus
During this in-depth training you’ll gain a very practical understanding of charity accounting, including:
- An overview of the UK charity financial reporting regime, including the Charity SORP
- An overview of the charity annual report
- Understanding fund accounting and its application to both Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet
- Understanding key Statement of Financial Activities and Balance Sheet accounting challenges for charities
- Understanding key requirements for the Trustees’ Annual Report, especially reserves policy and fundraising disclosures.
How to access
Purchase securely online, and we’ll send you further instructions and your receipt explaining how to access the training ready for the live training.
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