Training Programme 2025
Meet your professional requirements with more than 500 training events tailored for accountants, bookkeepers and tax professionals.
2025 Programme
Choose from online or in-person sessions to suit your learning style.
Reliable expertise
Join over 7,000 accountants from small, medium, and large firms across the UK and Ireland who rely on Mercia. Gain access to expert insights on regulatory and business developments you can trust.
Flexible learning options
Choose the training format that best suits your needs—whether it’s face-to-face events, on-demand recordings, e-learning, or live-streamed courses from a location that suits you. We provide flexible options to match your preferences and ensure you get the most out of your professional development experience.
Choose from over 150 courses
Stay ahead of the curve with our wide range of courses covering the latest regulatory updates, tax, audit, and accounting changes, all designed to help you manage your accountancy practice with confidence.
Highlights for 2025
Introducing some exciting new offerings for 2025 designed to help you and your team at all levels.
Firm-Wide Future Ready Skills
The skills the profession needs now and in the future are evolving rapidly. Mercia’s Future Ready Skills series helps firms and professionals understand and develop the skills that will enable them to thrive in a world shaped by rapidly changing technology.
Masterclasses
Taking extracts from our popular conference programme, Mercia Masterclasses offer a unique opportunity to hear from experts in specialist areas without having to attend the full conference event.
Award-winning Early Careers Auditing Skills Series
Winner of the ‘Digital Innovation’ award at the International Accountancy Forum and Awards, our on-demand and interactive eLearning modules offer a fresh approach to audit training and are designed to be completed at the most appropriate time for your trainee’s role and experience. See pages 10-11 for more details.
Verifiable CPD Pathways
To make it easier for firms and individuals to identify the CPD they should be completing over the year, we have bundled our courses together into suggested pathways to help you meet your verifiable CPD hours.
Monthly Update Bulletins For Members
Our new monthly update, exclusively for members, brings a roundup of the tax, auditing, accounting and regulatory issues over the previous month. Delivered on-demand, our monthly bulletins are ideal for team meetings or training sessions or for members to keep their CPD up to date.
Mercia Certificates In IFRS And UK GAAP
A series of interactive online eLearning modules covering the details of the standards with practical examples and case studies. Modules can be consumed individually, or completion of the entire series earns learners a certificate to showcase their expertise.
Your Training, your Way
Live Streamed
Live streamed courses are delivered via Zoom allowing learners to ask questions and interact with the expert and with other delegates.
On-Demand Recordings
Mercia’s on-demand courses offer you and your team the flexibility to learn at a time and in a place that works best for you.
eLearning
Our award-winning multimedia eLearning is interactive and engaging with features such as knowledge checks and texts, interactive videos and tutor-recorded debriefs.
Bite-Sized
This style of learning takes topical issues from past and recent courses and packages these so that you can consume shorter courses with more flexibility.
Face-to-Face
Mercia offers a Face-to-Face CPD programme across the country, covering core topics.
Enjoy unlimited access to hundreds of courses for an annual fee payable monthly by direct debit.
- unlimited access to all course titles in your membership
- verifiable CPD records
- Firm wide CPD Tracking
- Exclusive CPD monthly bulletin video updates
- Exclusive members' events: Ask the expert and Insights from Experts
- Discounts on Mercia Products and Services
- Complete Regulatory Training Series
- Mental Health, Wellbeing and Resilience Series
- Professional Skills on-demand training