CPD year-end: last chance to take action

20 Oct 2026

As the CPD deadline looms, Ollie Garrod ACA says consequences of not fulfilling the requirements have more teeth than most accountants realise, with risks of the verifiable trap and the five-year clock

If you are an ICAEW member, your CPD year ends on 31 October – a Saturday this year, which makes Friday 30th the deadline for anything needing somebody else to be at their desk. That is racing toward us.

Eighteen days is enough, provided you know what you are aiming at. The difficulty is that a good number of members do not and find out in the last week of the month, by which point the options have narrowed to whatever is bookable on a Thursday afternoon.

What the regulations require