In catering for the broad range of taxation, accounting, auditing, law and practice management issues we have again tried to incorporate your requests into the content of our lecture programme. Please let me know if there are any further areas you would like covered in the future. Despite rising costs we have held our 2010 course fees at the same level as in 2009.

One request which has recurred numerous times is for a course which explains the basic workings and uses of trusts. One of our members highly recommended a course which has now been booked for the afternoon of 10 June. However, it is limited to 30 delegates. If a greater number wish to attend, a second course will be run.

The uncertainties of the timing of the General Election make it difficult to describe our usual June Finance Bill lecture. We may have had a Finance Act and a further Bill by the end of June. Rest assured Robert Jamieson will bring us right up to date both on the content and then in the afternoon on his planning ideas.

Apart from inviting back a number of our regular excellent and very popular lecturers we have heeded your pleas for the return of more recent Offa Group lecturers and are delighted that both Louise Dunford and Jonathan Wilkey are to present half day sessions next year.

In mid June Dean Wootten will bring us up to date with the complex changes in VAT. He will further address important recent changes in International VAT, changes which those business clients who are involved with the buying and selling of goods and services within and outside the EU will need advice. Full details of this and our many other 2010 courses are to be found within this brochure. If there is anything further you wish to know please do not hesitate to contact me.

Patricia Sibcy FCA
Organising Secretary
October 2009