Course Details

In this session Sinead Gortland and Claire Thomson take a look at recent updates to Company Law and how it is impacting accountants well as upcoming legislation which will affect accountants over next few years.

Topics being covered include;

  • Companies (Corporate Enforcement Authority) Act 2021
    • Role of Corporate Enforcement Authority
    • Changes to Companies Act 2014


  • CRO and RBO Updates 
    • Review of Annual Reports
    • General Updates
    • Upcoming changes


  • Overview of Register of Overseas Entities in UK and how it relates to Irish Accountants


  • Upcoming Legislation

CPD Course Speaker

OmniPro

Sinead Gortland

Sinead joined the Corporate Consultants formations team in OmniPro in 2016 and built up her experience and knowledge before moving into the Company Secretarial team and is the current Head of OmniPro Company Secretarial.

As a key member of CPD Stores speaker team Sinead’s focus is Beneficial Ownership, Annual Compliance and Corporate Governance. Sinead is passionate about making company secretarial and company law accessible and approachable to agents and accountants.

As a member of the Corporate Consultants team Sinead is also responsible for carrying out; Section 343 applications, High Court Company Restorations, Annual Compliance, Company Law Compliance and AML. As well as this Sinead delivers bespoke training in the areas of corporate governance and compliance.

In her previous roles Sinead spent time in education and ESG and has a MSc from Maynooth.

Grant Thornton

Claire Thomson

Claire is a qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, and trained with Grant Thornton Ireland. She spent 5.5 years in corporate audit, before moving to the firm’s risk & compliance team, where she spent 6 years supporting the all-Ireland practice as their UK financial reporting subject matter expert.

After a year in OmniPro’s Practice Support team, where she delivered webinars, developed technical content and provided post-monitoring support to firms, she has now joined Grant Thornton Northern Ireland, where she is Head of UK Financial Reporting and Accounting Technical, providing UK technical advice and support to local and international offices.