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09 Sep 2024

Academy schools’ update webinar

Back to school

You can now access the full recording of our recent academy schools’ webinar for finance teams from our academy school clients.

Topics included:

  • Academy trust handbook update
  • Academies accounts direction update
  • Risk registers – a useful tool
  • Cyber update
  • Q&A


Louise Bridgett

Partner, audit and head of not-for-profit sector
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Phil Osgathorpe

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