The Technical Mix 2025
Registering for The Technical Mix at CPD Fest 2025 couldn’t be more straightforward. We have three packages for you to choose from – 8 hours, 16 hours and 24 hours of CPD – allowing you to customise the event to your own specific needs. Once purchased, pick ‘n’ mix the topics of most interest and relevance to you from any of the sessions running across the week of CPD Fest 2025.
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Event Details:
Session 1: CSRD & Global Sustainability Reporting Updatee
Time: 09:00 – 10:40
Speaker: Orla Carolan – Glas Consulting
The updated and simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards will be issued to the EU Commission by the end of November 2025 by EFRAG with scope and content amendments across all 12 ESRS. The ISSB standards continue to be adopted by companies not required to report under ESRS and at jurisdictional level globally as mandatory reporting standards. Participants will gain an understanding of the current status and key updates to ESRS and adoption of the ISSB standards globally.
Orla Carolan will cover the following topics during this presentation:
- Key updates to cross cutting standards under ESRS – ESRS 1 and ESRS 2
- Key updates to topical standards under ESRS across environment, social and governance
- Overview of ISSB Sustainability Standards (IFRS S1 and IFRS S2)
- Global adoption of ISSB standards
- Interoperability, similarities & differences – ESRS to IFRS
By attending this session, you will:
- Understand current status of CSRD and ESRS and updates to standards in 2025
- Understand status of implementation of IFRS standards globally
- Understand alignment between ESRS and IFRS standards
This session will be of particular interest to:
- Auditor & advisory/consultants in practice/professional services
- Finance professionals in industry
Course Level: Intermediate
Session 2: Company Law, Tax & Accounting Standards Considered
Time: 11:00 – 12:40
Speakers: Dermot Madden – Madden & Co
Company Law and the Taxation of Companies and Accounting Standards which are tax relevant, have many interrelationships, and these relationships need to be kept in mind, as professional accountants advise clients, or work as professional accountants in industry.
Being aware of such relationships will enhance the professional`s critical thinking as he or she ponder issues or advise on potential courses of action.
Dermot Madden will cover the following topics during this presentation:
- Why Incorporate?
- Company Types – advantages / disadvantages
- Directors – Company Law & Tax Issues compared
- Financial Accounting – Company Law & Tax Issues compared
- Regulatory Reporting to be aware of
Specific Issues:
- Contracts of and for services
- Employee & Directors Expenses
- Termination payments
- BIK`s & Perks
- Distributable Profits & Surcharge
- Loans
Reliefs involving Company & Tax Law:
- CGT Incorporation Relief
- CGT Company Share Buy Backs
- Goodwill
Accounting Standards:
- FRS 102
- Revenue recognition /Receivables
- Inventory /WIP
- Provisions& Accruals
This session will be of particular interest to Qualified Accountants who wish to improve their knowledge of these key issues and their inter- relationships.
Course Level: Intermediate
Session 3: Law Society Update and Key Solicitors Accounts Issues 2025
Time: 13:40 – 15:20
Speakers: Rory O’Neill – The Law Society, Colm Owens – OmniPro Practice Support
In the first part of this session, Rory O’Neill will concentrate on the recent changes to the Solicitors Accounts Regulations which came into operation on 1st July 2023. The talk will give an insight into the Compensation Fund and the role of the reporting accountants. It will also highlight the types of issues that the Law Society investigating accountants encounter in the course of their inspections of solicitor’s accounts and identify risk factors when reporting on solicitors’ accounts.
Rory O’Neill will cover the following topics during this webinar:
- The responsibility of the Law Society to protect both clients and the legal profession
- Examples of issues that give rise to claims on the Compensation Fund
- Solicitors Accounts Regulation 2023
- Focus on key changes
By attending this session, you will understand why reporting accountants are integral to the regulation of solicitors and protecting the public. You will learn what has changed under the Solicitors Accounts Regulations 2023 and be able to confidently report on a solicitor’s compliance with same.
This session will benefit any practitioner with solicitors as clients and are required to report to the Law Society on same.
In the second part of the session, Colm Owens will cover the following topics;
- The Legislative Requirements – Solicitors Accounts Regulations 2023
- The Law Society Accountants Report & Reporting of Breaches of the SARs
- Planning a Solicitors Engagement & the Requirements of the Reporting
Course Level: Intermediate
Session 4: Audit Insights: Unpacking Recent Changes and Future Trends Dec 2025
Time: 15:40 – 17:20
Speaker: Colm Owens, Lindsay Webber – OmniPro
Colm Owens & Lindsay Webber ill cover the following topics during this webinar:
- Overview of the profession and market in Ireland;
- Monitoring Visit Updates;
- Key focus areas by IAASA & impact on smaller firms;
- CPD Requirements & IES8 (key focus area on monitoring visits);
- Audit standard updates (including ISA 570 & ISA 700 (new audit report format & wording))
Course Level: Intermediate
CPD Course Facilitators
Orla Carolan – Glas Consulting
Orla is a Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA) and Managing Director of Glas Consulting, a consulting company that provides sustainability services including training, compliance and sustainability reporting advisory services to large organisations and SMEs.
Orla is currently working with the EFRAG secretariat on the programme of updates to the ESRS reporting standards which are due to be delivered to the EC later in 2025. During her time at Grant Thornton Orla also worked with EFRAG on the development of the ESRS sector standards under the CSRD.
Orla previously held senior roles at Future Planet, Grant Thornton and JPMorgan Hedge Fund Services in consulting, sustainability and financial & regulatory reporting.
Orla is a qualified trainer (QQI accredited) and currently lectures for CAI, TUD and other CPD and training bodies in sustainability and sustainability reporting.
Orla holds a B.A. in Business and Economics (TCD), is an ACCA member and a Certified Investment Fund Director (CIFD) and member of the IFDA working group on sustainability.
Dermot Madden - Madden & Co
Dermot Madden has over forty years’ experience working at senior levels in the Irish Revenue Commissioners and the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (“ODCE”). Now the Corporate Enforcement Agency (“CEA”).
He is a former Commissioned Inspector of Taxes who lead the DIRT enquiry audits on behalf of the Revenue Commissioners.
The DIRT enquiry followed the revelation that all major Irish banks had operated tax free fraudulent bank accounts for many years up until the late 1990’s.
He was the senior Forensic Accountant in the ODCE for over fourteen years.
He has substantial and unique courtroom experience in giving expert witness testimony.
He has authored grounding affidavits in major white collar criminal cases.
He has lectured and examined Forensic Accounting in Trinity College Dublin.
He will bring his unique experiences, insights and advices to accounting and auditing professionals, to enhance their understanding of what good forensic thinking and reporting is.
Seamus McGrath – The Law Society
Seamus is Head of the Society’s Financial Regulation Department and leads a team of 11 investigating accountants. Seamus has overall responsibility for the investigation of solicitors’ practices, the management of the administration of the Society’s Compensation Fund and of reporting accountants’ reports as well as the management of secretarial service to the Regulation of Practice Committee.
Elaine Jackson - OmniPro Practice Support
As a member of our Practice Support team, Elaine’s focus is on providing firm’s with assistance and training in the following areas; Anti-Money Laundering, Audit Testing and Walk Through Procedures, Audit Planning and Efficiency, OmniPro Audit Working Paper Demos, Preparing for Monitoring Visits and Post Monitoring Visit follow-ups.
Elaine has over 15 years Accountancy Practice experience which has provided her with a wealth of knowledge across all industries and sectors. Elaine is an AITI Chartered Tax Advisor, a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Diploma in Corporate Finance.
In her previous roles, Elaine has experienced a number of ACA and ACCA monitoring reviews. This experience has provided Elaine with a great understanding and appreciation for the challenges facing Accountants in practice today.
Lindsay Webber - OmniPro Strategic Solutions
As a member of our Strategic Solutions team, Lindsay’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, providing in-house training, technical assistance, and file reviews.
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. Altogether, she has over six years external audit experience along with over six years academic experience specialising in Audit and Financial Accounting. 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 and graduated with distinction from the MBA course at Trinity College Dublin. She is currently working towards a Diploma in Forensic Accounting through Chartered Accountants Ireland.
Rory O'Neill - The Law Society
Rory is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and is the Financial Controller of the Compensation Fund of the Law Society. Prior to this Rory, spent 14 years as an investigating accountant, carrying out over 500 investigations and has been involved in a number of contentious matters before the High Court and Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.
He has been consulted in relation to regulatory matters on state projects and is extensively involved in raising the profession’s awareness of cybercrime and property fraud and the risk they pose to their practices.
Rory also worked for over 10 years in private practice gaining valuable experience in accounts preparation and audit of small to medium size enterprises, including reporting on solicitors’ practices.
Colm Owens - OmniPro Practice Support
As a member of our Practice Support team, Colm’s focus is on helping practices achieve on-going best practice compliance, prepare for monitoring visits and assist with post-monitoring visits follow-ups.
Having spent the 6 years prior to joining OmniPro as a quality reviewer with Chartered Accountants Ireland Colm has a unique insight into how firms operate, the challenges facing firms and how firms are responding to current issues facing them and the profession.
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