Steve Collings
Name

Steve Collings

Title
Director
Organisation
Leavitt Walmsley Associates

About Steve Collings

Steve Collings is a director at Leavitt Walmsley Associates, a firm of chartered certified accountants. A Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Steve is an internationally recognised speaker, writer and commentator on all matters to do with financial reporting and auditing.

Steve was named Accounting Technician of the Year at the 2011 British Accountancy Awards. In 2013, he was presented with the Outstanding Contribution to the Accountancy Profession award by the Association of International Accountants. In 2017, Steve was highly commended from the Association of Accounting Technicians for his work in the accountancy profession.

Steve sat on the UK and Ireland GAAP Technical Advisory Group at the UK's Financial Reporting Council for five years until October 2021, and has represented the accountancy profession in the Parliamentary Review. Steve currently represents the North West of England on ACCA's Practice Network Panel.

He has presented courses all over the world and is the author of over 25 books. He has written numerous technical factsheets and articles for ACCA.

What Makes Steve Tick?

Steve is an outspoken advocate for the simplification of accounting and auditing standards.

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International Audit

4.2
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price£100+vat
cpd hours4 CPD hours
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