Session A
General Audit Update
 

• How to perform a hot or cold file review
• The last minute audit, (late annual return audit)
• Developments in audit
• Developments in audit monitoring

Aidan Clifford, ACCA Ireland
 

Session B
Company Law
 

• Main types of companies
• Transition arrangements
• New form of company constitutions
• Corporate capacity and authority
• Restricted transactions and how to validate them
• New M&A techniques
• Corporate governance (directors duties, directors loans)
• Auditors duty to report to registrar
• Directors reports
• Compliance statement

Paul Keane, Reddy Charlton
 

Session C
The new Audit Exemption Regime
 

• Changes to exemption limits and criteria
• The voluntary audit
• Audit monitoring of audit exempt clients

Brendan Howard, Mercia Ireland

Session D
Taxation: Defending against aggressive revenue collection

• Review of Revenue statutory powers
• Attachment orders: the law and tax payer rights
• Common aggressive enforcement techniques
• Defence strategies for practitioners

Gerry Higgins, Cooney Carey