IRIS Live Replays
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact us all, presenting new and unexpected challenges each day.
We gathered the top industry leaders from across the country at our virtual conference, IRIS Live, for a week of discussion, debate and knowledge-sharing. During the event, we left no stone unturned as we explored how top-performing businesses and professionals are navigating the next normal, providing you with the necessary insights to look forward with confidence.
Below you can watch all of the speakers, panel debates and discussions, so if you missed any sessions or simply want a recap, it’s all available here.
Enjoy watching!
Day 1 – 16 November 2020
HR
HR
Focusing on employee engagement and well-being at a time of crisis
Working virtually constantly is hard on employees and brings about a new set of engagement challenges. Research shows that more than 10 million UK workers could need mental health support post-COVID.
Payroll
Payroll
How to weather the storm
80% of small businesses fail in their first year and ~58% fail after five years in business according to the ONS. And these stats were all pre-covid!
Hear from the experts on how small businesses weather the turbulent COVID-19 pandemic storm and how technology can help.
Education
Education
Improving attainment in lockdown
Schools who focus on parent engagement often see a profound change in their classrooms. The more parents are involved in their child’s education, the better the entire class’s motivation, behavior and grades become. But lockdown has created a barrier to parent engagement as parents struggle to balance work and home schooling commitments.
Payroll
Payroll
Challenging the normal office and driving greater efficiencies in staff payroll
Payroll can be complex at the best of times, yet there are still a number of businesses that have predominately manual payroll processes despite all automation available to them. When choosing an automated solution, is it best to utilise the best technology and continue with it in house or have someone else complete it for you as a service.
Accountancy
Accountancy
The future firm and technologies
The accounting landscape is evolving faster than ever, accelerated by the turbulent effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
During this time we’ve continued to invest in technology so our products provide you with the latest innovation, all under the influence and endorsement of our customers.
HR
HR
Virtual working and the paperless environment anywhere
Managing a business and employees is difficult enough, let alone whilst everyone is at working from home.
During this session our experts will show how business owners can drive business success through virtual working and a paperless environment.
Payroll
Payroll
The cashless school – the way of the future
Cash in schools can cause a variety of issues. Consider the time school administration invests into collecting and managing cash from students. Alongside swallowed-up time, there’s also the issue of lost money, money spent where it is not intended to be spent, hunting high and low for spare change or the cheque book on busy mornings and the potential of bullying or extortion. Going cashless is the goal for the majority of schools, but how do you go about this?
Accountancy
Accountancy
Beyond compliance; client assets as a new service line services
Compliance is becoming increasingly commoditised, with predictions that it will only account for 50% of accounting firm revenues by 2025. The focus on additional added value client services is paramount for firms with a growth mindset.
In this session we share how accounting firms are turning to managing their clients assets to drive new and profitable service lines and how you can do the same.
Day 2 – 17 November 2020
Payroll
Payroll
MTD unpaused; the latest mandates and regulations coming
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, HMRC have announced that they are unpausing their Making Tax Digital plans. But what is Making Tax Digital, what is the legislative mandate and implications for businesses?
Payroll
Payroll
Agile business planning in a rapidly changing world
Rarely have business leaders and financial professionals face more complex, changing conditions than they have during the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses have had to adapt quickly to survive, but this has brought about it’s own set of challenges to providing insights to the financial future of the company.
Accountancy
Accountancy
Digital Evolution; the complete practice blue-print
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was estimated that less than 2% of accounting firms were a digital firm, with another 23% being digitally aware. Now it is estimated that less than 5% of accounting firms are digital firms, but a huge 70% of firms are now digitally aware.
Education
Education
The future of IRIS Education
Each and every day, schools are challenged to deliver the better pupil outcomes, and this has intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. But how do you balance your resources whilst completing everything behind the scenes now pupils have returned to school for the new academic year?
Payroll
Payroll
Creating strategic advantage from the COVID-19 situation
Even as companies focus on the immediate business shocks, they need to plan for the post-crisis world. The experience of the fast movers out of the last recession teaches business leaders emerging from this one to take thoughtful actions to balance growth, margins, and optionality.
Education
Education
Driving economies of scale from payroll in schools
Leaders of multi-academy trusts (MATs) are focused on driving economies of scale from centralised budgets & functions, but how do you achieve this in reality.
Education
Education
Improving sustainability for MATs
Achieving new economies of scale, centralised budgets & functions and a more efficient way of working together is the goal for any multi-academy trust (MATs). But there are a number of challenges to running multiple schools at once to the same standard under constantly changing conditions, now and in the future.
Payroll
Payroll
How to strengthen your company for international growth during COVID-19
The acceleration of digital adoption is enabling companies to expand and grow their business internationally, but how do companies cater for international growth during COVID-19?
During the current economic uncertainty, companies need to continue strengthening their organisations, so that they may provide more flexibility to the workforce while executing operations at full speed if they are going to maximise their growth drivers.
Day 3 – 18 November 2020
HR
HR
HR in the next normal
Though surviving and overcoming the hit to profitability from the initial wave of the COVID-19 crisis will be at the forefront of the minds of all businesses, all HR Professionals know that compliance with the latest health and safety regulations must come as the top priority, the first step to returning to work and being ‘COVID-secure’.
In this session we will bring you the latest HR legislation news and the essential points of the latest guidance and what your organisation needs to consider.
Education
Education
How to weather the storm
One in 10 UK charities are facing bankruptcy by the end of the year as they struggle to cope during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hear from the experts on how charities weather the turbulent covid pandemic storm and how technology can help.
Payroll
Payroll
Day in the life of a small business
For small businesses to beat the 1 in 5 survival odds, you need to pick the right technology partner to support you and provide scale for growth.
In this session we hear from business owners the technology that runs their business throughout the day and the benefits of a single supplier relationship.
Accountancy
Accountancy
IRIS in the next normal
The coronavirus pandemic has had a global impact, and IRIS hasn’t been exempt. We have had to make both reactive and pro-active changes as we adapt our own business to the next normal.
Hear from our CEO and other members of IRIS executive committee on what IRIS has done to adapt to the ever changing next normal.
Accountancy
Accountancy
Preparing for tax busy season virtually
As the tax deadline of 31st January looms every closers, firms are facing a tax busy season like no other previously. With lockdown and other COVID-19 restrictions in place, clients will no longer be able to provide their financial records in carrier bags in the final days of busy season.
Hear from the experts on how this busy season will be different than previous and what firms are doing to prepare for it.
Education
Education
Focusing on e-safety in and outside of school
The internet can be complicated and sometimes dangerous to navigate – especially for children. With an increase in accessibility and usage of the internet, the rules of parenting in the modern age have changed to ensure kids are staying safe online. Schools have a dual responsibility when it comes to e-safety: to ensure the school’s online procedures keep children and young people safe, and to teach them about online safety, in and outside of school.
Accountancy
Accountancy
Changing direction; building out your firms’ strategy in the next normal
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the game for a number of accounting firms, forcing them to rethink or change their strategic direction in order to achieve their goals. But how do you implement this change of strategy? Does it have to be changed wholesale or can it be a combination of strategies?
Education
Education
Managing the compliance reporting burden
Whether it is the consistent financial reporting (CFR) framework or the latest statements of recommended practice (SORPs) for education, the compliance reporting mandates are an ever increasing burden upon all education organisations.
Day 4 – 19 November 2020
Accountancy
Accountancy
New online threats and the right security
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by several years. But it has also exposed accounting firms to an increasing number of online threats, with more than 3,000 reports of coronavirus-related fraud (with losses totaling more than £13m) recorded to date. Most firms have expedited their online capabilities, but has the hast to get online increased their risk or fraud and an online attack?
Accountancy
Accountancy
The startup practice
Whilst COVID-19 is the cause for many accounting firm closures, it is also helping the birth of new startup firms. Accounting professionals who have unfortunately found themselves without a job are branching out on their own, but how do you go about setting up your own firm in these unstable economic conditions?
Payroll
Payroll
A day in the life of a GP
COVID-19 has really tested GPs and local surgeries as they have continued to serve their local communities amid the pandemic. With some much change happening and new rules and advice being announced everyday, how do you continue to focus on patient care?
Accountancy
Accountancy
The digital acceleration of practice management
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by several years as accounting firms adjust to the next normal. The majority of this digitisation has been on the front office to enable firms to continue to interact with clients etc. virtually, but what has the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown had on accounting firms’ back-offices and practice management?
Payroll
Payroll
Making online and cashless payments work for you
Pre pandemic the UK was already seeing to move towards a predominately cashless society by 2025. But now cash could be virtually wiped out in the UK within two due to COVID-19, with many businesses who have reopened since the lockdown already refusing to accept notes and coins due to the contactless payment limited being increased from £30 to £45 in the UK.
Education
Education
Day in the life of a school a digital blueprint
Schools are often seen simply as a place where children are taught to achieve success in their adult lives. But beyond the teachers, there are many departments, processes and multiple staff roles required to achieve this everyday. With maximum efficiencies required, how do schools automate and simplify the day to day running of a school?
Payroll
Payroll
Flexible working birth of the new ‘home’ office environment
In order for businesses to survive the current pandemic they had to get their entire workforce to work from home over night. We’ve gone from a culture of office working to flexible and home working in an instant – it’s the biggest flexible working experiment in history but we don’t know the outcome of this yet. Are we seeing the end of the office and the birth of a new competitive advantage / working efficiencies for the long term?
Accountancy
Accountancy
MTD back on the accountants’ agenda
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, HMRC have announced that they are unpausing their Making Tax Digital plans. But what are the new legislative mandates and implications for your clients?
Day 5 – 20 November 2020
HR
HR
Digital acceleration of the back-office
The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies by several years as businesses adjust to the next normal. The majority of this digitisation has been on the front office to enable businesses to continue to interact with customers etc. virtually, but what has the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdown had on businesses back-office?
Accountancy
Accountancy
Building valuable relationships with your payroll clients
With 93% of accounting firms providing payroll services for clients, payroll is a stable part of the compliance offering of accounting firms. But how do you drive a good margin on this necessary client service? Should you provide it in-house or outsource it? And more importantly, why both strong customer and supplier relationships are critical to the services’ success.
Education
Education
The return of Ofsted inspections
Following closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools have much to consider this new school year. Focus has primarily been on getting pupils back to school, with little thought to the normal review and inspection process mandated on schools.
Payroll
Payroll
Challenging the normal office and driving greater efficiencies in staff payroll
Payroll can be complex at the best of times, yet there are still a number of businesses that have predominately manual payroll processes dispite all automation available to them. When choosing an automated solution, is it best to utilise the best technology and continue with it in house or have someone else complete it for you as a service.
Accountancy
Accountancy
Day in the life of a large business
Running an company can be a complex task, with multiple areas of focus internally and externally throughout the day. Every company is different, yet their goals are often the same.
Hear from your fellow business leader peers as we discuss the technology that runs their companies through each day and how the right technology partner and relationship is critical to their success.
Accountancy
Accountancy
Day in the life of an accountant
Running an accounting firm can be a complex task, with multiple areas of focus internally and externally throughout the day. Every firm is different, yet their goals are often the same.
Hear from Partners and owners of accounting firms as we discuss the technology that runs their firms through each day and how the right technology partner and relationship is critical to their success.
Payroll
Payroll
Payroll in the next normal
IRIS’ recent survey showed that a third of Payroll Professionals are worried about the future of payroll and what’s coming next.
That’s why we’ve teamed up the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) to bring you the latest payroll legislation news, a CJRS update, help you get more from your payroll, and provide peace of mind about what’s next for payroll professionals.
