CPD

Many professions, such as accountants and lawyers, are required to complete a minimum number of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or Continuing Professional Education (CPE) hours per year.

Industry associations have different requirements and criteria around CPD/CPE, but in general the learning activity has to be relevant to your individual professional development objectives and should be verifiable.

Please check with your particular industry association’s website for their specific CPD requirements and criteria.

Accountants

• Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ)
• CPA Australia

Lawyers

• New Zealand Law Society
• The Law Association of New Zealand

If you are a member of another professional or industry association, please refer to that associations’ CPD requirements.

Although each professional association has slightly different criteria around CPD, CCH Learning webinars and events are generally considered verifiable as we provide the following:

• Registration confirmation email
• The ability to record a list of attendees
• Interactive Q&A sessions
• Webinar/Event workbook
• All webinars are recorded, so, if required, they can be assessed for CPD relevance if your CPD log comes into question
• Webinar recordings contain a multi‑choice CPD Quiz

What qualifies for CPD is very subjective and depends on each individual’s professional learning plan and objectives.

CA ANZ, CPA Australia and the NZ Law Society CPD models are based on similar cycles of planning and learning:

Planning (What to learn) – Action (The CPD activity) – Evaluation (What was learned) – Reflection (What further learning is needed).

CCH Learning New Zealand is not formally accredited with any association; however all of our webinars and conferences generally qualify towards CPD hours.

The key thing to consider when looking at potential CPD activities is whether the learning outcomes will meet your individual learning needs.

For live webinars, attendees will be sent a CPD certificate.

For on‑demand recordings, attendees view the recording, complete and pass the accompanying CPD quiz and are sent their CPD certificate.

Conference attendees will be sent their CPD certificate after the event has ended.