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Description

Accounting Managers’ Club: Updating, Benchmarking and Developing Your Practices

Benchmark your accounting organisation against other companies and against current developments

  • 2 days — 14 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • All levels
  • Up to 6 participants

Accounting managers often decide alone on a wide range of matters: regulatory and reporting developments, closing organisation, automation of processing, recruitment and retention of team members. Peer-to-peer exchange is rarely available, even though most of the difficulties encountered are shared elsewhere.

Two hours of structured discussion on current developments affecting the accounting function and its organisation. The short format alternates between update briefings and shared practice between managers, and does not examine one particular standard as a technical session would.

Learning objectives

  • Identify the accounting and regulatory developments of the period
  • Benchmark your closing organisation against other practices
  • Assess the benefits and the limits of process automation
  • Identify the levers for retaining accounting teams
  • Prioritise the initiatives to launch within your department

What makes this programme different

Practical experience shared between managers from different sectors
Every update is systematically linked to its consequences for the organisation
A personal roadmap drawn up at the end of the session

Programme

1Current developments in the accounting function

What will occupy the coming months

  • Regulatory and reporting developments and their application timelines
  • Consequences for processing and for systems
  • New expectations from executive management
  • Topics under discussion within the profession

2Organisation and tools

Looking at how others operate

  • Running the closing process and allocating the work
  • Automation of repetitive tasks
  • Data quality and embedded controls
  • Relations with contributing departments

3Teams and the department's trajectory

Sustaining the function over time

  • Recruiting and retaining accounting profiles
  • Skills development and allocation of assignments
  • Positioning the department with the business lines
  • Prioritising the initiatives to launch

Who is it for

Accounting managers · chief financial officers and heads of accounting departments.

Prerequisites

Hold a supervisory or management responsibility within an accounting or finance function.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.