How to make businesses more sustainable

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How to make businesses more sustainable
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How to make
businesses more
sustainable
Speaker Robert Gibson will talk to Institute
members on how to make their businesses
and the community more sustainable.
He was formerly the finance director at
various subsidiaries of Swire and was the
director of sustainable development for
John Swire & Sons (HK) Ltd. until last July.
CPD hour: 1
Language: English
Date: 11 January
Time: 8:00 – 9:00 a.m
Auditing and
assurance
Audit Practice Manual
application
The Institute will offer workshops on the
revised manual to refresh members’ audit skills
in risk assessment and risk response as well as
how to use the Excel-based audit programmes.
CPD hours: 7 (for each session)
Language: English/Cantonese
Dates: 21, 24 and 28 January
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Janaury 2011
HKFRS update for 2010-11
The seminar explains the updated HKFRSs
and interpretations effective for and after 201011, including the revised HKAS 24, HKFRS 9 and
the latest developments on financial reporting
standards. Speaker Nelson Lam has extensive
experience in related issues in Hong Kong and
other Asia-Pacific jurisdictions.
CPD hours: 3
Language: Cantonese with English handouts
Date: 7 January
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Technical update evenings
The latest series of TUE will brief members
on the new and revised accounting standards
of 2010-11 as well as the risk assessments and
auditor’s responses under the new clarified
HKSAs 540 and 550.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Dates: 11 and 25 January
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Tax
Recent developments on
cross-border personal
income tax
As cross-border activities
increase, employees need a clear
understanding of the individual
tax exposures in both Hong Kong
and China to avoid penalties for
non-compliance. Partner Jacky Chu
and senior manager Natalie Ku
at PwC International Assignment
Services (Hong Kong) Ltd. will
explain the tax principles of both
places relevant to Hong Kong
employees working in China. They
will also discuss recent trends and
developments in individual income
tax on the mainland and Hong Kong
salaries tax affecting cross-border
employees and typical taxplanning strategies.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 13 January
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
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Revised Code of Ethics for
professional accountants
The revised code takes effect at the beginning
of the month. This seminar will explain the
major changes to the code to help members
prepare for its adoption.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 18 January
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Financial accounting
and reporting
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Visit the Institute’s website for other programmes and to enrol
and pay online: www.hkicpa.org.hk
Leadership and
business strategy
Creating alignment with
non-financial performance
measures
Neale O’Connor, associate professor at
The University of Hong Kong’s School of
B2B strategies for complex
Business, will explain how to develop
sales (non-Institute event)
Guy Fraser, associate director at Management performance and subjective measures
to fit particular strategies to strengthen a
Development Services Ltd., will introduce
firm’s strategic competitive advantage.
concepts on the dynamics of business
CPD hours: 3
deals between companies from the client’s
Language: English
perspective. The approach will increase
Date: 26 January
your chances of success and monitor
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
organizational changes that may occur.
Language: English
Date: 11 January
How to extract value from
Time: 8:00 – 9:15 a.m.
consultants
Venue: Harcourt Suite, 1/F, The Hong Kong Sidney Sze, chairman of CAGI Think Tank
Club, 1 Jackson Road, Central
and president of the Society of Registered
Fees:HK$300 (British Chamber
Financial Planners, will discuss how
of Commerce members)
companies can better use consultants on
HK$380 (non-members)
their projects to increase strategic and
Enquiries: [email protected]
operational benefits and reduce spending.
The workshop will be illustrated with
case studies.
CPD hours: 3
Language: English
Date: 20 January
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Stress management
Managing stress in the
workplace
The Institute and the Chartered
Accountants Benevolent Association are
offering this workshop to help accountants
recognize the causes, signs and symptoms
of stress in the office. Speaker Alan Hong
will offer tips on how to minimize and
prevent stress.
CPD hours: 3
Language: Cantonese
Date: 28 January
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.
PhotoAlto/Laurence Mouton/ Getty Images
Anti-money laundering
and counter-terrorist
financing
Gordon Yam, assistant secretary (narcotics)
of the Security Bureau, and Philip Tsang,
senior inspector of police of the Joint
Financial Intelligence Unit, will give
an overview of the latest international
and domestic anti-money laundering
developments. This will increase members’
understanding of the statutory obligations
and practices on suspicious transaction
reporting, and provide a forum for
discussion on related matters.
CPD hours: 1.5
Language: English
Date: 26 January
Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
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