Schedule:

9.30 am - 11am: Governance & Ethics, Speaker: Maureen Kelly, CPA Ireland

11am - 11.30am: Tea Break

11.30am - 1pm: AML, Speaker: Emer Kelly, CPA Ireland

The Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act 2010 has recently been amended by the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Act 2018, which gives effect to certain provisions of the Fourth Money Laundering Directive. AML Guidance has been prepared to assist firms and member fulfil their legal obligations under the legislation. This session will review the recently published guidance providing practical tips for firms for its implementation.

1pm - 2pm: Lunch

2pm - 3.30pm: Automation & Accounting, Speaker: Patrick Marren, Inpute

The role of the certified public accountant has moved from managing money to defining and managing strategy for your company and clients. Today's accountants will be involved in IT, data governance and digital transformation to enable their organisations, and clients, compete in the digital world.

This session will focus on 3 key trends in automation and accounting in 2019:  Automating your accounting processes, document management for data governance, and the development and impact of robotic process automation (RPA).

3.30pm - 5pm: Tax for Practitioners, Speaker: Gary O'Mahony, O'Hara Dolan

In this session, Gary will do an overview of main CAT/CGT/Stamp duty issues that typically arise in practice, including consideration of planning ideas with the main reliefs and likely Budget changes.

Key Course Details:

Venue: Carlton Hotel Blanchardstown
Time: 9am - 5pm
CPD Credit: 8 hours

Make sure that you input your CPA member ID as the attendee when booking, as the CPD credit will not be automatically allocated to your account otherwise.