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AIA-NCA workshop: creating good quality SARs Speaker: Tony Fitzpatrick, NCA and David Potts, AIA 10 February 2021 Accountants have a crucial role to play in protecting the economy and wider society by submitting suspicious activity reports (SARs).

A high-quality SAR can provide a critical intelligence resource for law enforcement and be instrumental in identifying money laundering. By flagging up your suspicions, you are playing a key role in tackling criminality. But what should you be looking for?

In this joint workshop with the National Crime Agency, Tony Fitzpatrick of the UK Financial Intelligence Unit will cover how to make good quality SARs. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions.

In addition, the session will introduce AIA’s new member guidance publication “Red Flags: spotting and reporting suspicious activity”, which addresses: ● reporting obligations for firms under the Money Laundering Regulations; ● how to spot and report suspicious activity; ● knowledge vs suspicion; ● what could happen if you fail to report suspicious activity; and ● how to submit good quality SARs.

The issues raised in the session will help you to critically assess your existing processes and identify improvements.

Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Speaker: Aiden Corcoran 15 February 2021 Making Tax Digital for Income Tax will be with us in 2023, but why should you start to prepare your clients now and move away from HMRC’s Portal? This webinar will include: ● how to help your clients get ready for the transition; ● timelines: payments and submissions; ● an overview of GoSimpleTax software; and ● a question and answer session. Financial reporting update: Ireland Speaker: Professor Robert Kirk 23 February 2021 Financial reporting covers a number of standards. This webinar will review FRS102 and will cover: ● the latest developments in both local and international financial reporting standards; ● Auditing and Accounting

Supervisory Authority (IAASA) observations for reporting on

December 2020 year ends; and ● the impact of Brexit and Covid-19 on financial reporting.

Pension update: Ireland Speaker: James Caron 12 March 2021 Pension planning, broadly speaking, falls into two regimes: personal pensions and company/director pensions. This webinar will include: ● pension planning opportunities in

Ireland; ● corporate wealth to private ownership; ● case studies; and ● a question and answer session.

For all events and webinars, visit www.aiaworldwide.com/events for more information and registration.

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