Hear from experts in the profession and gain valuable knowledge that you can put to work in your practice today and going forward!
BILL DOCHERTY MBE BA CA
Growing your accounting practice and accelerating out of the recession
Bill founded Persuasion in 2000, which specialises in the Science and Art of Persuasive Communication. He is a consultant to an oil distribution company, an accounting firm and a legal firm.
He trains and develops leaders and presenters in the business world and professions. He regularly speaks at conferences.
Bill was an Inspector of Taxes who saw the light and became a Chartered Accountant and was a UK Head in one of the Big 5 accounting firms. He is qualified as a Master Practitioner and certified trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming. He is also a hypnotist and a member of the Manchester Magic Circle and an ex paratrooper.
Bill was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2009.
For more information see www.persuasion.uk.com.
FRANCESCA LAGERBERG FCA CTA (Fellow)
Tax Hotspots and what would you do in the first 100 days of becoming Chancellor?
Francesca Lagerberg is Head of Tax at Grant Thornton UK LLP and runs its national tax department. She is a past-Chairman of the Tax Faculty of the ICAEW and now chairs its Technical Committee. Nominated for three years running for the LexisNexis Taxation Writer of the Year award, Francesca is also a qualified Barrister, Chartered Accountant (Fellow) and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT). She is actively involved in lobbying for better, simpler and more proportionate tax legislation.
MARK LEE FCA CTA (Fellow)
Should accountants ignore or explore Twitter and other 'social' media?
Mark Lee is arguably one of the most active UK accountants involved in online networking and 'social' media. His articles and talks on the subject are always focused on what is commercial and practical for accountants in practice. He is Chairman of the Tax Advice Network and a regular blogger, speaker and writer.
DAVID KILSHAW – MA / Head of Private Client, KPMG
Capital Tax Update: What’s Hot and What’s Not
David is Head of KPMG’s Private Client Group and has nearly 25 years experience of advising clients on personal tax matters. He advises on all aspects of personal taxation including capital gains tax, inheritance tax and trust planning, but with particular emphasis on structuring to ensure tax efficiency.
David also comments on tax issues in the press and lectures regularly to clients and professional audiences. In 2007 David was voted Spears’ Private Client accountant of the year. KPMG also won the Best UK Private Client Advisers in the 2009 Euromoney Banking Survey.
GRAHAM TILBURY CTA & NIGEL POWELL Business Development Manager DIGITA
Day One: Personal Tax – Maximising Efficiency and Managing Risk
Day Two: Preparing for CT eFiling and iXBRL
Graham is a Senior Tax Technology Adviser with Digita, Thomson Reuters. He has 15 years experience in the industry and 10 years working with eGovernment. Graham began his career at Arthur Andersen in 1994. He completed his tax training in 1997 and was admitted to the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Leaving the Andersen group in 2004, Graham moved to KPMG, where he took on a more strategic role, assisting the Practice on important proposals and advising the Practice on their internal tax technology vision and roadmap.
Nigel is Business Development Manager at Digita, Thomson Reuters and is currently enjoying helping them to successfully grow their business by meeting the needs of larger practices. He has over 40 years experience in the industry, starting with a year’s initiation at HMRC and then various tax roles leading to Personal and Corporate Tax Manager in 1984 in a London tax practice. Where he introduced one of the first systems and saw huge cost savings in better structured working practices.
In 1984 he moved into computerised taxation and joined the forerunner to CCH/MYOB, carrying out roles as trainer, analyst, marketer, salesman and then Product Manager. Overseeing the growth of PerTAX to be the pre-eminent UK personal tax system.
His career has also seen involvement in several projects with HMRC including consultation on ‘White Space’, encouraging the adoption by the profession of online filing of personal returns.
JULIAN HATT Customer Strategy & Policy Specialist HMRC
HMRC’s Carter Programme: Looking Forward, Glimpsing Back
Julian's role in HMRC's Carter Programme is to make sure that the HMRC’s online services properly reflect the needs and priorities of their diverse range of customers and stakeholders.
Focusing on the new CT Online service, Julian will be explaining what the most recent developments will mean to accountants and their clients, including IFRS, XBRL and the latest Carter Report initiatives.
ARTHUR WEST Customer Insight Manager COMPANIES HOUSE
The CA2006 and how the changes are affecting the practitioner
Arthur joined Companies House as Product Development Manager in 1998 after 8 years in Marketing and New Product Development in the manufacturing industry. He has since been at the forefront of transforming the ways in which customers can deal with Companies House to deliver or search for company information, researching, specifying and developing the organisation’s electronic services.