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Corporate training that sticks — because it's practical

Six hands-on programs in SAP, accounting software, analytics and VAT — plus fully customised programs built around your team, your systems and your business scenarios. Every course is practical, not slideware, delivered by a Chartered Accountant who uses these tools in client work every week.

Tailored to you

Need something the standard programs don't cover?

Every program below can be fully customised — content, depth, duration, exercises and even your own (anonymised) data and processes. We also design bespoke programs from scratch for corporate teams: tell us the skills gap, and we build the training around it.

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SAP

SAP FICO / S/4HANA Finance Training

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Ideal audience

Finance teams, accountants, SAP end-users, analysts moving into SAP roles, and managers who need to understand SAP finance processes.

Learning objectives

  • Navigate SAP finance confidently
  • Understand end-to-end FI and CO processes
  • Execute daily transactions and month-end tasks
  • Read and use standard SAP financial reports

Course outline

  • SAP Finance overview & organizational structure
  • Company code & chart of accounts
  • General Ledger accounting
  • Accounts Payable process
  • Accounts Receivable process
  • Bank accounting
  • Asset accounting
  • Cost center accounting
  • Profit center accounting
  • Financial closing
  • Reporting in SAP
  • S/4HANA Finance & Fiori overview

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Post a full purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash cycle
  • Run a simulated month-end closing
  • Build a cost center report for management
  • Fiori app walkthrough on real-life tasks

Expected outcome

Participants leave able to work independently in SAP finance, understand how transactions flow into reports, and support a faster, cleaner closing process.

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SAP · BI · AI

SAP Analytics Cloud for BI & SAP Joule for AI Training

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Ideal audience

Finance and business analysts, controllers, reporting teams and managers exploring BI and AI-assisted insights in the SAP ecosystem.

Learning objectives

  • Understand BI reporting concepts and data models
  • Design SAC stories and dashboards
  • Use planning and smart insights features
  • Understand how SAP Joule supports AI-assisted analysis

Course outline

  • SAP Analytics Cloud overview
  • BI reporting concepts
  • Data model basics
  • Story design
  • Dashboard creation
  • Planning overview
  • Smart insights
  • Business analytics use cases
  • SAP Joule overview
  • AI-assisted business insights
  • AI for finance, supply chain & management reporting

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Build a management dashboard from sample data
  • Create a story answering a real business question
  • Use smart insights to explain a variance
  • Scenario: AI-assisted monthly reporting workflow

Expected outcome

Participants can build useful SAC dashboards, communicate insights clearly, and understand where AI genuinely adds value in reporting.

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SAP · Logistics

SAP MM & EWM Training

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Ideal audience

Procurement, logistics and warehouse staff, supply chain analysts, and finance users who need to understand the goods and invoice flow.

Learning objectives

  • Master the procure-to-pay process in SAP
  • Maintain material and vendor master data correctly
  • Run inventory and warehouse processes confidently
  • Understand how logistics postings hit finance

Course outline

  • Procurement process overview
  • Purchase requisition & purchase order
  • Goods receipt
  • Invoice verification
  • Material master & vendor master
  • Inventory management
  • Warehouse structure
  • Inbound & outbound process
  • Picking and packing
  • Stock transfer
  • EWM overview

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Process a full PR → PO → GR → invoice cycle
  • Resolve a blocked invoice scenario
  • Run an inbound and outbound warehouse flow
  • Stock transfer and physical inventory exercise

Expected outcome

Participants can execute and troubleshoot core MM/EWM processes and understand the financial impact of every logistics step.

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Accounting

QuickBooks Training

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Ideal audience

SME owners, freelancers, bookkeepers, admin staff and startup teams who run (or will run) their books in QuickBooks Online.

Learning objectives

  • Set up a company file correctly from day one
  • Process sales, purchases and banking confidently
  • Prepare for VAT returns without panic
  • Review the books monthly like a professional

Course outline

  • QuickBooks Online navigation
  • Company setup
  • Chart of accounts
  • Customer & supplier setup
  • Sales invoices
  • Bills and expenses
  • Bank feeds & bank reconciliation
  • VAT setup
  • Reporting
  • Month-end review
  • Common bookkeeping mistakes

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Set up a demo company end-to-end
  • One month of real-life SME bookkeeping
  • Full bank reconciliation exercise
  • Find-the-errors cleanup challenge

Expected outcome

Participants run clean, reconciled books in QuickBooks, avoid the classic mistakes, and produce reports an accountant — or a bank — will respect.

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Analytics

Power BI & Data Analysis Training

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Ideal audience

Finance professionals, analysts, controllers and managers who want to move from spreadsheets to professional dashboards and data-driven decisions.

Learning objectives

  • Clean and transform data with Power Query
  • Build a sound data model with DAX basics
  • Design KPIs and dashboards people actually use
  • Tell a clear story with data

Course outline

  • Data analytics fundamentals
  • Data cleaning
  • Excel & CSV data import
  • Power Query
  • Data modelling
  • DAX basics
  • KPI design
  • Dashboard design
  • Financial dashboard
  • Sales dashboard
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Storytelling with data

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Clean a messy real-world dataset
  • Build a sales dashboard from raw exports
  • Capstone: full CFO dashboard project
  • Present insights to 'management' (role play)

Expected outcome

Participants finish with a working CFO dashboard they built themselves — and the skills to maintain and extend it.

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Ideal audience

SME owners, bookkeepers, finance staff and e-commerce sellers dealing with Dutch and EU VAT obligations.

Learning objectives

  • Understand how VAT really works — input vs output
  • Prepare a correct Dutch VAT return
  • Handle EU transactions: ICP, OSS, reverse charge
  • Build control checks that catch errors early

Course outline

  • VAT fundamentals
  • Dutch VAT overview
  • VAT on sales and purchases
  • Input VAT and output VAT
  • VAT return preparation
  • EU VAT basics
  • ICP overview
  • OSS basics
  • Reverse charge mechanism
  • VAT invoice requirements
  • VAT control checks
  • Common VAT mistakes

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Prepare a full VAT return from raw bookkeeping data
  • Classify 20 tricky cross-border transactions
  • Invoice compliance check exercise
  • Spot-the-mistake VAT audit scenario

Expected outcome

Participants prepare VAT returns confidently, handle EU complexity correctly, and know exactly which checks to run before filing.

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New · AI Programs

How to Build an AI Accounting Team

A four-phase pathway that takes a finance function from safe individual AI use all the way to a governed, department-wide implementation. Each phase runs either as a condensed one-day intensive for individuals booking a public seat, or as a multi-session in-house cohort (33 sessions across all four phases) customised to your systems — same content, different pace.

The governing principle: AI prepares and supports. Qualified people review, approve, post, file, pay and sign. Every workflow taught in these programs stops at a named human approval point.

Phase 1 · Beginner · 1-day intensive or 7 sessions

AI for Accountants — Foundation

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Ideal audience

Accountants, bookkeepers, finance team leads, consultants, business owners and managers with little or no practical AI experience.

Learning objectives

  • Explain useful — and unsafe — uses of AI in accounting
  • Map data, decisions, controls and handoffs in an accounting workflow
  • Write prompts with role, context, task, constraints, output and quality checks
  • Use AI with tabular exports while protecting confidential data
  • Validate calculations, sources, classifications and exceptions

Course outline

  • Where generative AI fits in finance — and where it must not
  • Accounting workflow mapping: data, decisions, controls, handoffs
  • Controlled prompt structure and the output schema
  • Working safely with ledger and invoice exports
  • Confidentiality, privacy triage and data-handling rules
  • Validation: sources, calculations, classification, exceptions
  • Agents introduced: Accounting Assistant · Expense Review · Risk & Exception Review

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Prompt repair lab — fix prompts that produce unusable output
  • Workflow mapping exercise on a real accounting cycle
  • Privacy triage: what may and may not leave the building
  • Error-spotting drill on AI-generated ledger analysis
  • Reviewer role play against an exception log

Expected outcome

Participants leave with a safe starter prompt pack, a mapped workflow, written data-handling rules and an evidence-based review method they can use the next working day.

Delivery formats

  • Public 1-day intensive — 8 hours, Wednesdays & Saturdays, £500 per delegate. Same content, condensed into a single day.
  • In-house cohort — the same material across 7 shorter sessions (90–120 min), spread over weeks with workplace practice in between, customised to your data and policies.
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Phase 2 · Beginner to intermediate · 1-day intensive or 10 sessions

Build Your AI Accounting Team

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Ideal audience

Operational finance teams, senior bookkeepers, finance managers, shared-service leads and consultants building repeatable AI-supported workflows.

Learning objectives

  • Define agent scope, inputs, outputs and stop conditions
  • Build AP, AR, bank, expense, tax, payroll, close and reporting assistants
  • Apply confidence, exception and reconciliation controls
  • Design handoffs and segregation of duties
  • Test agents against known-answer datasets

Course outline

  • Agent charters: scope, inputs, outputs, stop conditions
  • Procure-to-pay: AP invoice review and three-way match
  • Order-to-cash: AR ageing and collections prioritisation
  • Bank reconciliation workflows
  • Employee expense review
  • VAT and tax review assistants
  • Payroll review support
  • Record-to-report: month-end close assistant
  • Management reporting assistant
  • Testing with known-answer and edge-case data

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Agent charter workshop — draft and challenge six agent designs
  • Three-way match exercise on live-style invoice data
  • Collections prioritisation sprint
  • Reconciliation sprint against a messy bank file
  • Tax exception review clinic

Expected outcome

Participants leave with a working AI accounting team: prompts, data contracts, review checklists and exception reports for six core agents, with test evidence and an approval workflow.

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Phase 3 · Intermediate to advanced · 1-day intensive or 8 sessions

Advanced CFO Reporting & Dashboards with AI

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Ideal audience

Finance managers, controllers, FP&A professionals, CFO advisers, finance business partners and experienced consultants.

Learning objectives

  • Review management accounts and identify material movements
  • Build variance and working-capital commentary from traceable data
  • Create scenario-based cash forecasts
  • Design role-specific dashboards with thresholds and drill-downs
  • Produce weekly, monthly and board-ready reporting packs

Course outline

  • Management accounts review and materiality
  • Variance analysis and root-cause commentary
  • Working capital analysis and narrative
  • Scenario-based cash flow forecasting
  • Role-specific dashboard design: thresholds and drill-downs
  • Weekly and monthly CFO reporting packs
  • Board-ready summaries: fact vs assumption vs recommendation
  • Agents introduced: Management Reporting · Budget & Variance · Cash Flow Forecasting · Financial Controller · CFO Reporting

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Variance root-cause clinic on a real-shaped trial balance
  • Forecast stress test under three scenarios
  • Dashboard critique — rebuild a weak dashboard
  • CFO decision simulation with incomplete information
  • Board narrative workshop

Expected outcome

Participants leave with a traceable CFO reporting pack: dashboards, commentary, scenario forecasts and structured decision requests built on a common case study.

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Phase 4 · Advanced · 1-day intensive or 8 sessions

Full AI Finance Department Implementation

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Ideal audience

Controllers, CFOs, heads of finance transformation, internal audit, risk leads, implementation consultants and system owners.

Learning objectives

  • Design multi-agent workflows with clear control ownership
  • Apply segregation of duties, privacy, retention and audit-trail rules
  • Test accuracy, completeness, consistency and failure handling
  • Create an AI usage policy and operating procedures
  • Plan a phased rollout with training, monitoring and remediation

Course outline

  • Cross-cycle orchestration and multi-agent architecture
  • Control ownership and segregation of duties
  • Privacy, retention and audit-trail requirements
  • Model risk and version control
  • Test design: accuracy, completeness, consistency, failure handling
  • AI usage policy and standard operating procedures
  • Audit support and control testing
  • Phased rollout: training, monitoring, remediation, CFO value measures

Practical exercises & scenarios

  • Control ownership mapping across the full finance cycle
  • Failure-case testing — deliberately break an agent
  • Policy drafting workshop
  • Audit evidence walkthrough
  • Rollout roadmap build with ownership and gates

Expected outcome

Participants leave with an implementation blueprint: architecture, controls, policies, a test plan, a gated rollout roadmap and named ownership — ready to take to a board or audit committee.

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Delivery formats for the AI pathway

Public 1-day intensive: book a single seat — 8 hours, Wednesdays & Saturdays, £500 per delegate per phase. Weekly in-house cohort: one session per week with a capstone workshop after each phase. Corporate academy: all four phases as a full pathway (33 sessions), with workplace practice between phases. Assessment evidence — prompt versions, source snapshots, outputs, review logs and sign-offs — is retained throughout.

Note: tax, payroll, privacy, employment and reporting standards vary by jurisdiction. Sample rules are replaced with your current approved rules, and qualified specialists are involved before any live use.

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