Bespoke Courses

Bespoke Courses 

Many clients choose to tailor their own course content to reflect the requirements of their particular organisation. Bespoke Alphatax training offers the following benefits:

  • Training specific to your organisation
  • Value for money – one single cost for up to 8 delegates
  • Training at your offices – maximise the time spent learning by minimising the time spent travelling to the course location.

We offer a comprehensive list of topics which you can choose to include in your tailored training programme. Should you wish to create a bespoke training course for your organisation please contact our Training team on 01784 410228 or email training@taxcomputersystems.com.

Bespoke course content choices

Trades
  • Multiple trades
  • Long periods of account
  • Commencement or cessation of a trade
  • Branches or divsions
  • Finance leasing
Division Consolidation
  • How to set up Alphatax to deal with divisional computations
Investment companies
  • Entering management expenses
  • Profit and loss reconciliation and its importance for investment companies
  • Capital allowances
  • Sundry income
  • Group dividend income
  • Hybrid companies
  • Property investment companies
Overseas issues
  • Foreign trades dealing with UFT
  • Non-sterling reporting
  • Eligible Unrelieved Foreign Tax (EUFT)
  • Dividend chains
  • Controlled Foreign Companies (CFCs)
  • Non-resident Landlords (SA700) return
Capital Disposals
  • Assets held April 1965 / March 1982 - rebasing elections
  • Part disposals
  • Rollover relief
  • Postponement relief
  • Share disposals
  • Substantial shareholding exemptions
  • Short lease disposals
  • Capital losses
  • Connected party losses
  • Pre-entry losses
  • RPI updates
Tax Planning
  • Group relief
  • Interaction of loss reliefs
  • S343 transfer of trading losses and assets
  • Surrender of R&D tax credits
  • S171a notional transfer of assets
  • S179 degrouping charges
Compliance Management
  • Monitoring the compliance process using the Administration function
  • Explaining the Compliance Cycle Management (CCM / Administration Summary window
  • Tracking HMRC correspondence
  • Using Selective Display to tailor the summary
  • Customising Compliance Progress / Claims & Elections
  • Using Review notes
  • Tracking changes to the computations
  • Using the Diagnostics Report statement
Management Reporting
  • Creating your own reports
  • Editing existing reports
  • Mailmerge
  • SQL reporting (Enterprise only)
  • Group reporting
Computational Presentation
  • Setting organisational defaults (fonts, logos)
  • Formatting Freeformat statements
  • Using templates (statement, company, Accounts Analysis)
  • Using Letter Writer for client /HMRC correspondence
Tax Pack
  • Using Tax Pack to collect data from your clients or subsidiaries
E-Filing
  • How to set up Alphatax to e-file client returns
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)
  • Setting up a REITS company
Accounts Integration
  • Setting up mapping files for importing trial balance data
  • Editing existing mappings
  • Reviewing and adding new accounts for subsequent years