The Charities Conference: Recent Investigations by Regulators
Category: Financial Reporting | Duration: 1hr | Tag: VODUKCHCO3 | Type: Video | Speaker: Claire Thomson, Lindsay Webber
Course Details
One of the key responsibilities of each of the three Regulators across the UK is to ensure that trustees meet their legal requirements and obligations in running their charities. Where it comes to the attention of the relevant Regulator that there may have been non-compliance, even abuse, of these requirements, they may intervene to carry out an investigation.
This session reviews some of the investigations that have been carried out by each of the three Regulators in the past 12 months and will consider some of the lessons that can be learned from these.
By purchasing this session, you will receive a better understanding of the legal requirements and obligations of trustees of charities, and the potential outcomes when things go wrong. This session will better equip accountants who work with charities to advise their clients.
The session will require a basic knowledge of how charities function, and the legal responsibilities of trustees with respect to safeguarding charity assets and acting to promote the charity’s purposes.
CPD Course Speaker
Grant Thornton
Claire Thomson - Director
Claire is a qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and trained with Grant Thornton Ireland. She spent 5.5 years in corporate audit, before moving to the firm’s risk & compliance team, where she spent 6 years supporting the all-Ireland practice as their UK financial reporting subject matter expert.
After a year in OmniPro’s Practice Support team, where she delivered webinars, developed technical content and provided post-monitoring support to firms, she is now with Grant Thornton, based in Northern Ireland, where she is Head of UK Financial Reporting and Accounting Technical, providing UK advice and support to local and international offices
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.
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.