Academies: Audit and Accounts Update

This course will provide a timely and informed update on the key issues facing academy accountants and auditors in 2022.

The specific course content will vary as requirements develop, but will cover the following areas:

• Key changes to the Academies Accounts Direction and Academy Trust Handbook
• Sector developments
• Academy financial reporting and assurance challenges and hot topics, such as:
  • Ongoing implications of COVID-19
  • Presentation and audit of non-core income and expenditure
  • Accounting and assurance implications of academy group structures and trading subsidiaries
  • Effective multi-academy trust engagements
  • Common ESFA accounts and assurance findings
• Other financial reporting and assurance developments

The content for online courses predating 2022 may vary.