Thursday 31 January 2008 - Selected for CPD audit
Well here we go - a new blog for a new site and what a way to start!
Just when I thought all the usual year end deadlines had been met, tax returns were safely filed and new year resolutions were all but a distant memory – an unassuming looking letter dropped through the door announcing that “you have been randomly selected to submit your Portfolio of Evidence” in relation to Continuing Professional Development.
Hmmm….why do I manage to get ‘randomly selected’ for CPD audit and the next stage of the Readers Digest prize draw but the national lottery doesn’t manage to ‘randomly select’ my numbers?
Anyway, as it uses the word “randomly” I least I know it isn’t anything personal - not yet anyway.
So off went the email to confirm receipt of the letter and a promise of sending the information within the required timescale (6 weeks) – now where did I file those verifiable hours certificates?
I will post more on the process and of course the outcome as it progresses.
On a serious note though, the compulsory nature of the CPD is a long overdue concept that can only hopefully improve the knowledge and technical abilities of qualified accountants whom for some studying is but a distant memory and ethics is a county in England.
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