You learn something every day (4 replies)

In lots of professions, you have to certify that that are keeping up to date - CPD Compliance.

I qualified as an accountant in 1975 and worked in that area until 2004. Then I packed it in and became a photographer.

Since then, every year when my "non-practising" membership came up for renewal, I've declared that I'm non-compliant. Never do any finance courses, never read updates - I do my own accounts and that's it. No problem for my Institute it seems.

Today, I did the same declaration and received an email saying if I really was non-compliant, I should speak to member services.

They said that I needed to declare if I was compliant for WHATEVER I AM DOING NOW. It doesn't relate particularly to accounting work - even though the email comes from the Institute of Chartered Accountants and if I made a declaration of compliance, that's who would receive it.

So now, I have to declare that I am compliant and may get a call asking me what I've done to comply in the last 12 months.

Crazy!