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Accounting and People
Finance team and executive training
Training built around your own numbers.
Technical training for finance teams on IFRS, Ghanaian tax and month-end reporting, and executive sessions for boards and management on the figures they are asked to approve. Designed from your reporting, delivered by the people who do this work every day.
Request a training scope All accounting and peopleMost reporting problems are people problems. The same adjustments appear at every year end, the same disclosures are missed, the same tax positions are taken without anyone checking the law has changed. Training fixes that at source, and it costs less than correcting the same errors every year.
Training for finance teams
We start with your own reporting: the management accounts, the group pack, the audit adjustments from the last two years, and the returns filed with the Ghana Revenue Authority. The session is then built around what actually goes wrong, using your chart of accounts and your transactions rather than textbook examples. People learn the treatment they will apply on Monday morning.
Executive sessions
Directors, audit committee members and senior managers sign financial statements, approve budgets and answer to lenders and investors. A short session on reading a set of accounts, on what an audit does and does not give you, or on the tax exposures a board should ask about, changes the quality of the questions asked in the room.
When training is not the answer
If the errors come from a system that cannot produce the right numbers, or from a team that is too small for the volume, training will not fix them. We will say so, and point you to the outsourced finance function or a systems review instead.
Sessions built from your own reporting and prior audit adjustments
Delivered by the people who prepare, audit and defend these figures
Every session leaves a reference pack the team can go back to
Scope
What we train on
Each of these is scoped to the level of the people in the room, from a graduate finance team to a board.
IFRS, applied to your accounts
Revenue, leases, financial instruments, impairment and the disclosures a reviewer looks for first. Taught against your own trial balance and the adjustments raised at your last audit.
Ghanaian tax for finance teams
Corporate income tax, withholding, VAT and the levies under Act 1151, PAYE and SSNIT, and what changed in the last Budget. The filing calendar, and where penalties actually come from.
Month-end close and management reporting
Reconciliations that hold, accruals that are complete, and a management pack a board can read. The order to close in, and the controls that stop the same errors recurring.
Group reporting for subsidiaries
Preparing a reporting pack a foreign parent can consolidate without a reconciliation exercise: intercompany, currency, deadlines and the questions head office will ask.
Board and audit committee sessions
How to read a set of financial statements, what an audit opinion does and does not tell you, going concern, and the questions to put to management and to the auditor.
Internal controls and fraud awareness
Where money leaves a business without anyone noticing, the controls that catch it, and how to respond when something is found. For finance teams and for the managers who approve payments.
Process
How a programme is built
A diagnosis first, so the session covers what your team gets wrong rather than everything the topic contains.
Diagnosis
We review your recent reporting, audit adjustments and filed returns, and talk to the people who prepare them.
Week 1Design
A programme scoped to the gaps found, with the level, format and timing agreed in writing.
Week 2Delivery
Sessions run at your offices, ours, or online, with exercises drawn from your own numbers.
As scheduledReference pack
Every session leaves a written pack the team can return to, with the treatments and the sources.
On completionFollow-up
A check at the next close or year end on whether the errors have stopped, and a short session if they have not.
Next reporting cycleEngagement
Fees, timing and who does the work
Fee basis
Fixed fee per sessionQuoted for the programme as a whole, including the diagnosis and the reference pack.Who does the work
A partner or senior managerWith a tax or IFRS specialist for the technical sessions.Timing
Around your calendarScheduled away from your close and your filing dates, so the team can attend.Format
In person or onlineHalf-day to two-day sessions, in groups small enough to work through examples.Questions
Questions before you commission training
Can our auditor train our finance team?
How many people should attend?
Is the training accredited?
Can you train a team in another region of Ghana?
What if the problem turns out not to be training?
Next step
Tell us what keeps going wrong.
The adjustments that come back every year, the return that is always late, or the board that wants to understand the accounts it signs. That tells us what to build the programme around.
Also under Accounting and People
Outsourced finance function
Bookkeeping, reconciliations, payables and receivables, and management accounts by working day five with a commentary on what moved and why. Run by qualified people, for a fixed monthly fee.
CFO services, one to four days a month
Part-time senior finance leadership: budgeting and forecasting, cashflow management, pricing and margin analysis, board reporting, and lender and investor relations. Typically one to four days a month.
Payroll processing and statutory filings
End-to-end payroll: gross to net, PAYE, SSNIT Tier 1 and Tier 2, Tier 3 where operated, benefits in kind, bonus treatment and expatriate staff. Payslips issued, filings made, and a review before submission rather than after an assessment.
Xero implementation and training
Migration from spreadsheets or a legacy system, a chart of accounts designed around how you report rather than around a default template, bank feeds and approval workflows, and training so the system belongs to you.
Finance recruitment and HR consulting
Finding finance and operations staff who can do the job, including the technical assessment most recruiters cannot run. Plus employment contracts, handbooks and performance frameworks compliant with the Labour Act 2003 (Act 651).