Course Details

The regulatory landscape for UK financial reporting is evolving significantly. This session addresses critical updates for charities and explores how the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 is reshaping company reporting obligations.


Charities SORP Updates: Understand the new charity size tiers and what they mean for your reporting obligations. The Trustees' Report requirements have been enhanced - learn what must now be disclosed and how to present it effectively. We'll also cover how recent FRS 102 changes flow through to charity accounting, ensuring your charity clients remain compliant.


Companies House Changes: In this section we focus on the expected changes to the strategic report and directors report as well as the new powers that the Companies House has to query and reject accounts. We will also cover the updated company size thresholds. 


In this session Lindsay Webber and Lungi Sepotokele will cover the following topics:

  • Changes to the Charities SORP
    1. Charity size tiers
    2. Trustees Report
    3. FRS 102 changes
  • Companies House Changes
    1. Upcoming changes to filing requirements
    2. Companies House powers
    3. Companies size thresholds

 

By attending the session, you will be better placed to advise and support your charity and CBI-regulated clients.


This session will be of most interest to practitioners with charity clients and CBI regulated clients.


Course level: Advanced

CPD Course Speaker

OmniPro Strategic Solutions

Lindsay Webber

As a head of Strategic Solutions at OmniPro, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training and technical assistance in audit and financial reporting.

Lindsay is a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and Chartered Accountants Ireland. She trained with KPMG in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of financial services companies. She then spent six years lecturing audit and financial reporting to under-grad and post-grad students at Rhodes University in South Africa before moving to Ireland and returning to practice in a small, and then a medium sized firm where she was an audit manager. She is passionate about combining her academic and practice backgrounds to provide technical information in a useful and practical way.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lindsay holds a PGDiploma in Higher Education from Rhodes University, an MBA from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Forensic Accounting from Chartered Accountants Ireland.

Technical Executive

Lungi Sepotokele

Lungi trained with PwC in Johannesburg and specialised in external audit of mining companies. She completed part of her training as an academic at Wits University where she completed her Master of Commerce degree. Lungi has worked in external audit in Canada as an audit senior and Ireland as an audit manager.

Outside of her accounting qualifications Lungi is a hobby baker who volunteers by baking for the homeless in Dublin City