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Continuing Professional Development

The purpose of CPD is to ensure Members keep up to date with new developments/guidance; thus maintaining their expertise, and providing the highest levels of service.

CPD encourages members to develop their Technical and Management skills:

Technical Development usually relates to accountancy, audit, finance and IT.
Management Development refers to the softer skills and knowledge; such as communication skills, time management, presentation kills and leadership.

The current guidelines can be found here.

Mandatory CPD
At the AGM in January 2005, the CPD scheme became mandatory for members. Implementation was phased in over a three year period, based upon individual Member Election dates.

There are a number of exemptions covering Retired members, Members on career breaks & Extenuating Circumstances.

Levels of Participation
Two levels of participation are available to Members; Level 1 is the basic scheme designed to meet all current requirements of regulators, Level 2 is the best practice scheme and focuses on planning, recording and reflecting on your CPD activity.

CPD Advisor
The local CPD Advisor is Una McGuinness; She can be contacted at:

CIPFA Northern Ireland Branch,
3rd Floor, Lesley Exchange 2,
22 East Bridge Street,
Belfast, BT1 3NR,

Tel: 02890 266 773,
Fax: 02890 266 771,
e-mail: Una.mcguinness@cipfa.org,

Further Information on CPD can be found at http://learning.cipfa.org.uk/.