Webcasts for CPD

Webcasts are a maturing technology and with the proliferation of free courses by leading universities, I hoped to see some good material for CPD.  Now while some of the university courses could certainly be used for CPD, I was hoping to find something more aimed at staying up to date with UKGAAP/IFRS, UK law and UK business based ideas.

CIMA does have a suite of material available here but at £30 for an hour's course seems expensive (the special offer bulk buys only allow a restricted choice).

I would be interested to hear if anyone has found a good alternative?

Skrill - could this be used like escrow for low amounts?

Please note this link may only work if you have a subscription to The Times.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/banking/article3819003.ece

Notes from Modelling and Financial Planning Webinar

Business Modelling and Financial Planning Webinar

Date and time:	16 Jul 2013, 10:00
Duration:	1 hour
Description:	Business Modelling and Financial Planning Webinar  In this webinar Andy Cooper, Business Consultant from Advanced Business Solutions, examined the challenges that organisations face with the modeling and forecasting process offering insight to how you can develop these processes beyond finance to gain a real business advantage.

Presented by Andy Cooper, Advanced Business Solutions

• Move to modelling and planning rather than systems replacements
• Third of orgs use specialist tool (half for large orgs) - typically not outside finance.
• Doing more with less and backlash against ERP-like projects.
• Short ROI - less than 18 months in many cases.
• 63% of orgs (up from 54% in 2011) plan to upgrade business modeling in next 2 years.
• But over 70% of BI/BM projects fail.

Action items

Look at Adobe Meeting - worked well for Webinars (from web link with no log in required).
Consider business opportunities of specialising in this area - but with which software?

Everything you ever needed to know about dropbox in seven minutes or less. | Dotto Tech

For anyone not already using Dropbox for backing up, syncing and sharing, this is well worth 7 minutes of your time.  It could just save you that sinking feeling the next time someone says to you 'when did you last make a backup'?

Everything you ever needed to know about dropbox in seven minutes or less. | Dotto Tech:

If you do decide to give it a try, I'd appreciate you using this link so that Dropbox gives me some extra free storage in case I ever need it.

Evernote reminders (for Android, iOs and web but not Windows yet)

This video shows you how to use the new reminder feature on Evernote but note you may need to download the latest updates first for Android (it's one that you need to do manually).

About Google Hangouts (video chatting and conferencing across different platforms)

http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/07/google-hangouts-collaborate-any-device.html

SME accounting changes - the new UK GAAP: FRS 102 explained | AccountingWEB

Summary of main changes planned for UKGAAP (bringing UKGAAP in line with IFRS).

The new UK GAAP: FRS 102 explained | AccountingWEB:

The full standard is available here.