Accreditations

Our courses can qualify for CPD / CPT requirements for the following professional bodies / professions:

Professional Bodies
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The Law Society of Hong Kong Show details
The Law Society of British Columbia Show details
The Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") Show details
CFA Institute Show details
Institute of Financial Planners Hong Kong ("IFPHK") Show details
HK Stock Exchange (applicable to listed company directors) Show details
Insurance Intermediaries Quality Assurance Scheme Show details
Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("HKICPA") / Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ("ACCA") Show details
US Qualified Lawyers - State Bar of California Show details
US Qualified Lawyers - New York State CLE Board Show details
Certified Documentary Credit Specialist ("CDCS") Show details
International Compliance Association (ICA) Show details
The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) Show details
   

Accreditation Details
________________________________________________________________________________________ The Law Society of Hong Kong

Accreditation Details:

We have been an accredited provider of The Law Society of Hong Kong (Law Society) since 2001 and our accredited CPD Law courses will count towards the CPD points of the CPD Scheme of the Law Society.  Generally, 1 CPD point will be awarded to 1 hour of lecture (excluding breaks) for courses, seminars and conferences in lecture style.  For workshops and courses with interactive discussion, more points may be awarded.

A solicitor and a trainee solicitor must accumulate 15 CPD accreditation points in each CPD practice year.  A CPD practice year is a period of 12 months ending on 31 October each year in legal practice or in employment as a solicitor or in employment as a trainee solicitor (i.e. 1 November to 31 October).

With effect from 1 November 2008, the Law Society has introduced an honour-based CPD Scheme and Law Society members are no longer required to scan their membership cards to record course attendance.  After completion of an accredited CPD course, a practitioner shall make a record of the points awarded to the course he / she has attended in his / her own training records, provided that no points at all should be claimed by him / her for attending a course if he / she is absent (excluding scheduled breaks) for more than 10 minutes during that course (where the course is less than 3 hours) or for more than 30 minutes during that course (if the course is 3 hours or more).

Any period of absence (where late arrival, early departure or absence in the middle of the course) shall be aggregated for determining whether any points at all may be claimed for each course.

Where courses last for more than one day and have been accredited as a whole (i.e. not on a segment basis), the attendance policy will apply on a continuous basis.  Attendance at all segments and days (as the case may be) is necessary in order to obtain CPD points (and total absence period may not be more than 30 minutes).  Where the individual segments or days of a course of one or more days duration has been accredited by the CPD Accreditation Sub-Committee, solicitors and trainee solicitors attending each accredited segment(s) or day(s) of the course in full will be entitled to claim the CPD points accredited to that segment(s) or day(s) (provided that his / her absence for that segment or day does not exceed the maximum absence period as prescribed above).

Therefore, if you want ALL your CPD points, please be ON TIME and DO NOT LEAVE during any session of a course.

For more details, please refer to the Mandatory Continuing Professional Development Information Package November 2010 to October 2011.
(Updated on 31 Dec 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ The Law Society of British Columbia

Accreditation Details:

We have become a pre-approved provider of the Law Society of British Columbia in 2011 and our courses marked with CPD BC Law are accredited activities that can satisfy CPD requirements for BC lawyers.  These courses are also listed on BC Law Society’s website where BC lawyers can log on to view upcoming CPD courses.

On 1 January, 2009, BC Lawyers became the first in Canada to be subject to a comprehensive continuing professional development requirement.  All practicing lawyers, both full-time and part-time, must complete 12 hours of accredited continuing professional development within the calendar year.  At least two of the 12 hours must pertain to any combination of professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and practice management.  If the annual requirement is not met by 31 December of a year, a late fee applies (Rule 3-18.4).  If the requirement is not met by 1 April of the following year, you will be suspended until all required professional development is completed.  Lawyers receive 60 days prior notice of the suspension (Rule 18.5).

Lawyers record their accredited professional development activities online at the Law Society website.  Application for accreditation of courses and professional development activities can be made both by education providers and individual lawyers, either before or after the event.  All accredited courses must satisfy the following content criteria:
  • significant, intellectual, or practical content, with the primary objective of increasing the professional competence of lawyers, paralegals, articling students and/or law school students;
  • material dealing primarily with substantive, procedural, ethical, practical management (including client care and relations) or skills topics relating to the practice of law;
  • material primarily designed and focused for an audience that includes, as a principal component, lawyers, paralegals, articling students and/or law school students, but not if the subject matter is targeted primarily at clients, the public, other professions, or other students.
For more information, please refer to The Law Society of British Columbia Continuing Profession Development.

(Updated on 5 May 2011)
________________________________________________________________________________________ The Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC")

Accreditation Details:

Our courses can fulfil CPT Continuous Professional Training (CPT) requirements.  The Securities & Futures Commission (SFC) has advised that although formal endorsement will not be given for the training we provide, it does not mean that the training programmes we organize do not meet CPT purpose.  According to the SFC's Guidelines on Continuous Professional Training, CPT is the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills to enable individuals carrying on regulated activities to perform their duties competently and professionals.  The objectives of the CPT program are:
  • To maintain and enhance their technical knowledge and professional expertise;
  • To provide reasonable assurance to investors at large that they have the technical knowledge, professionals skills and ethical standards required to perform the regulated activities efficiently, effectively and fairly; and
  • To maintain and enhance Hong Kong's international reputation for high professional standards
An individual must undertake a minimum of 5 CPT hours per calendar year for each regulated activity he / she engages in.  However, if a person is licensed for more than one type of regulated activity within a group of regulated activities having the same competence requirement, he / she only need to take 5 CPT hours altogether.  For further details on minimum CPT hours required, please see SFC's licensing related FAQ Topic 3.

Corporations are held primarily responsible for designing and implementing a continuous education program best suited to the training needs of the individuals they engaged and which will enhance their industry knowledge, skills and professionalism.  The training programs can be provided internally or the corporations can make use of appropriate external sources.

You will be required to keep all documentary evidence supporting your CPT activities for a minimum of 3 years.  We will issue a certificate of attendance to you upon payment of our prescribed fee confirming that you have indeed attended the course and will state the duration of the course.  We will only issue a certificate of attendance if you have signed in AND signed out before you leave the course.

Courses & Seminars does not warrant that the attendance of our courses would automatically be recognized by the SFC as fulfilling your CPT requirements.

For more details, please refer to the Guidelines on Continuous Professional Training of the SFC.
(Updated on 14 Mar 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ CFA Institute

Accreditation Details:

We are registered with the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Institute as an Approved-Provider of continuing education programs.  As a provider-level participant, C&S can determine which of our programs as eligible for Continuing Education (CE) credit and / or Standards, Ethics, and Regulator (SER) credit hours(s) in accordance with CFA Institute's standards and CE criteria.

Programs eligible for CE credit must be related to one or more topics incorporated in the CFA Institute Global Body of Investment Knowledge (GMIKTM).

CFA Institute offers the voluntary CE Program as a tracking framework for its members.  In order to maintain and improve their professional competence, the Institute recommends members complete a minimum of 20 hours of CE activities, inclusive of a minimum of 2 Standards, Ethics, and Regulatory (SER) content hours, each calendar year.

If you are a CFA institute member and would like to receive CE credit for your attendance at the eligible program(s), please provide your name, CFA Institute member number and e-mail address.

For more details, please refer to the CE Program Guidebook.
(Updated on 14 Mar 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ Institute of Financial Planners Hong Kong ("IFPHK")

Qualified CE Activities:

All CFPCM certificants are required to renew their certification annually in order to continue using the CFP marks.  To renew their certification, they must maintain technical competence and fulfill ethical obligations.  They must complete a minimum of 15 credits of continuing education (CE) every calendar year in order to stay current with developments in the financial planning profession and better serve clients.

Recognized CE activities should be tied directly to professional knowledge, skills and abilities that are covered in the certification process, and be relevant to professional development of a personal financial planner.  Content of CE activities should be topics covered in the CFP Certification Examination Syllabus including:
  • General Principles of Financial Planning
  • Insurance planning
  • Risk management
  • Investment planning
  • Tax planning
  • Employee benefits
  • Retirement planning
  • Estate planning
All of our courses marked with "CE IFPHK credits" are recognized as qualified CE activities by IFPHK.  You will be required to retain and provide CE records and supporting documentary evidence for a minimum of 3 years.  We will issue a certificate of attendance to you upon payment of our prescribed fee confirming that you have indeed attended the course and will state the duration of the course.   We will only issue a certificate of attendance if you have signed in AND signed out before you leave the course.

For more details, please refer to the Guidelines on Continuing Education (CE) Requirements of IFPHK.
(Updated on 04 May 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ HK Stock Exchange (applicable to listed company directors)

Accreditation Details:

The Code of Corporate Governance (Appendix 14 of the Listing Rules of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) which came into effect in January 2005 contains provisions relating to continuing professional development of listed company directors as follows:

A.5. Responsibilities of directors
 
Principle
Every director is required to keep abreast of his responsibilities as a director of an issuer and of the conduct, business activities and development of that issuer.

Code Provisions

A.5.1
Every newly appointed director of an issuer should receive a comprehensive, formal and tailored induction on the first occasion of his appointment, and subsequently such briefing and professional development as is necessary, to ensure that he has a proper understanding of the operations and business of the issuer and that he is fully award of his responsibilities under statue and common law, the Exchange Listing Rules, applicable legal requirements and other regulatory requirements and the business and governance policies of the issuer.
Recommended Best Practices

A.5.5
All directors should participate in a programme of continuous professional development to develop and refresh their knowledge and skills to help ensure that their contribution to the board remains informed and relevant. The issuer should be responsible for arranging and funding a suitable development programme.
Course and Seminars provides a wide variety of courses which we consider are relevant and appropriate for listed company directors and senior management to achieve the abovementioned objectives, including courses related to corporate governance, Listing Rules, directors' duties & liabilities, Securities & Futures Ordinance, employment, finance and investment related areas.

For more details, please see Code on Corporate Governance Practices.
(Updated on 16 Mar 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ Insurance Intermediaries Quality Assurance Scheme

Qualified CPD Activities:

All insurance intermediaries registered with the Insurance Agents Registration Board / the Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Brokers and the Professional Insurance Brokers Association Limited, their chief executives / responsible officers and technical representatives (collectively referred to as "Insurance Intermediaries" ) are required to comply with the requirements of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Programme under the Insurance Intermediaries Quality Assurance Scheme (IIQAS) as follows:
  1. 10 CPD hours every year for all Insurance Intermediaries except travel insurance agents (and their responsible officers and technical representatives)
  2. 3 CPD hours every year for all travel insurance agents (their responsible officers and technical representatives)
  3. Any excess CPD hours accumulated within a particular year cannot be carried forward to any other years.
Structured CPD courses organized or formally approved by specified professional bodies including the Law Society of Hong Kong for their own CPD programmes can be recognised as qualified CPD activities for the IIQAS CPD Programme, without the need to be further approved by the IIQAS CPD Programme assessment authority, if they relate to the following areas.
  • Local insurance (or related) legislation
  • Regulatory aspects of insurance practice in Hong Kong
  • Insurance
  • Actuarial science
  • Risk management
  • Financial planning
  • Other disciplines which are directly related to the work of insurance intermediaries, such as investment, law and legal knowledge, finance, business, commerce, management, engineering or communication skills
Generally, one CPD hour can be earned for each hour's participation in these activities.

CPD compliance records for IIQAS

The self-regulatory organization (SROs) i.e. the Insurance Agents Registration Board, the Hong Kong Confederation of Insurance Bokers (HKCIB) and the Professional Insurance Brokers Association (PIBA), are responsible for monitoring the compliance of the Insurance Intermediaries registered with them.
  • HKCIB members are required to retain documentary proof for CPD compliance for immediate past 3 calendar years
  • PIBA members are required to retain documentary proof of all declared CPD records for at least 7 full calendar years for random audity by PIBA
Most courses offered by Courses & Seminars are accredited by the Law Society of Hong Kong with CPD points for Law Society purposes.  Therefore those courses, provided that they relate to the areas stated above, should qualify for the IIQAS CPD Programme.

Courses & Seminars however does not warrant that the attendance of any of our accredited CPD Law courses would automatically be recognized as complying with the IIQAS CPD requirements as different SRO may have different requirements.  If in doubt the Insurance Intermediary should contact their SRO for clarification.

Courses & Seminars will issue a certificate of attendance to any Insurance Intermediaries upon payment of the prescribed fee confirming attendance at a course and the certificate will state the duration of the course.  A certificate of attendance will only be issued if the Insurance Intermediary has signed in AND signed out before leaving the course.

For more details, please refer to the following websites:

CPD Information Sheet (November 2009)
HIKCIB CPD Programmek
PIBA CPD Guidelines
HKFI Guidance Note on Compliance with the Requirements of the CPD Programme
(Updated on 31 Dec 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("HKICPA") / Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ("ACCA")

Accreditation Details:

The IES 7 (International Education Standard for Professional Accountants 7) issued by the International Federation of Accountants (IFCA) contains requirements relating to Continuing Professional Development.  This requires member bodies, including the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs (HKICPA) and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), to prescribe the same mandatory CPD requirements for all members as from January 2006.

Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants ("HKICPA")

All members of HKICPA are required to complete at least 120 hours of relevant professional development activities in each rolling three-year period of which 60 hours should be verifiable.  A minimum of 20 hours (either verifiable or non-verifiable) should be completed each year. The reporting period for each year commences from 1 December.

It is the responsibility of members to exercise their professional judgment deciding the type of CPD activities they undertake according to their individual needs.  Such learning activities should develop their professional knowledge, professional skills and professional values, and should be relevant to the individual members' current and future work, professional responsibilities, helping them to enhance their understanding of the trends and environment in which they are working as a CPA.  Learning activities to improve business skills, such as leadership, negotiation, management and presentation skills can also be recognized relevant CPD activities.

Training organized by providers other than the HKICPA may be counted for CPD hours.  It is up to members to decide what learning activities are relevant and appropriate to their work and professional responsibilities.

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants ("ACCA")

ACCA members are required to complete 40 relevant units of CPD each year, where one unit is equal to one hour of development.  Twenty-one units must be verifiable and the other 19 can be non-verifiable.  All members are required to submit an annual CPD declaration each year.  Annual CPD declaration can be submitted online at any point in the year by logging into myACCA.  Alternatively a paper version, which is received as part of the annual subscription renewal notification, must be completed and returned to ACCA by 1 January of the following year.

Members can record their learning activities as verifiable CPD if 1) the learning activity was relevant to his / her career; 2) the member can explain how he / she will apply the learning in the workplace and 3) the member can provide evidence that he / she has undertaken the learning activity.

Courses offered by Courses & Seminars
Courses and Seminars provides many courses that are relevant and appropriate to the work responsibilities of accounting professionals.  These include courses on accounting rules, Listing Rules, corporate finance, company law, taxation of corporate and individuals, trust planning, fund management and investment products.

It is however up to individual members to decide whether a particular course is relevant to his / her career and should enable him / her to fulfill the CPD requirement of the HKICPA / ACCA.  Courses and Seminars does not warrant that the attendance of our courses would automatically be recognized by HKICPA and ACCA as fulfilling their CPD requirements.

To enable members of the HKICPA / ACCA to claim CPD points, Courses & Seminars will issue, upon payment of the prescribed fee, a certificate of attendance for attendees who have attended a course and the duration of the course will be stated on the certificate.  A certificate of attendance will only be issued if the attendee has signed in AND signed out before leaving the course.

For more details, please refer to the following websites:

IFAC IES 7
HKICPA Quick Guide to Current CPD Requirements
ACCA CPD Requirements

(Updated on 31 Dec 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ US Qualified Lawyers

State Bar of California

Accreditation Details:

Active members of the State Bar of California have to comply with Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) requirements, as follows:

Total hours required every three years: 25 hours
  • Maximum "self-study" hours: 12.5 hours
  • Members must fulfill at least one-half of their MCLE requirement with activities approved for "participatory" MCLE credit.
  • Special Requirements within the total hours required (may be taken as participatory or self-study):
  • Legal Ethics: 4 hours (required)
  • Detection / Prevention of Substance Abuse or Mental Illness: 1 hour (required)
  • Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession: 1 hour (required)
Approved Jurisdictions

A California attorney can claim California MCLE credit for education activities attended / taken outside California, provided that:
  • the attorney is outside California when attending / taking the activity;
  • the activity is the type of activity that can be approved for California MCLE credit;
  • the activity is approved by an Approved Jurisdiction.
There are three foreign jurisdictons on California's Approved Jurisdiction list:
  • England & Wales
  • Hong Kong
  • Victoria, Australia
As C&S is an accredited provider of the Law Society of Hong Kong, all our CPD Law accredited courses can satisfy the MCLE requirements provided that they are the type of activities that can be approved for California MCLE credit.

Courses & Seminars does not warrant that attendance at our CPD Law accredited courses for the requisite number of hours would automatically enable the attorney to fulfill his / her specific MCLE requirements prescribed by the State Bar of California.  It is up to the individual attorney to decide whether or not a particular course is appropriate for him / her and whether or not the course falls under a particular area in which he / she needs to obtain MCLE.

To enable California attorneys to claim MCLE credits, Courses & Seminars will issue, upon payment of the prescribed fee, a certificate of attendance for attendees who have attended a course and the duration of the course will be stated on the certificate.  A certificate of attendance will only be issued if the attendee has signed in AND signed out before leaving the course.

For more details, please refer to the following links at the State Bar of California website:

MCLE Program
Attorney Information
Approved Jurisdictions
FAQ
(Updated on 16 Mar 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ US Qualified Lawyers - New York State CLE Board

Accreditation Details:

New York State's Continuing Legal Education Program Rules stipulate that each attorney (other than newly admitted attorney - see CLE requirements below) shall complete a minimum of 24 credit hours of accredited continuing legal education each biennial reporting cycle.  The CLE shall be in ethics and professionalism, skills, law practice management or areas of professional practice, at least four (4) credit hours of which shall be in ethics and professionalism.

The biennial reporting cycle shall be the two-year period between the dates of submission of the attorney's biennial registration statement.  Credit may be earned through speaking, teaching or participating in a panel in an accredited CLE program.  Where teaching is done in tandem or by panel, teaching credit shall be given to all participants.

For newly admitted attorney, each shall complete a minimum of 32 credit hours of accredited transitional education within the first two (2) years of the date of admission to the Bar.  Sixteen (16) accredited hours shall be completed in each of the first two (2) years of admission to the Bar as follows:
  • three (3) hours of ethics and professionalism;
  • six (6) hours of skills; and
  • seven (7) hours of law practice management and areas of professional practice.
C&S courses for CLE purpose

Under New York's Approved Jurisdiction policy, New York has adopted procedures to extend comity to jurisdictions whose CLE accreditation standards meet New York's standards.  New York currently has 28 Approved Jurisdiction, including the Law Society of Hong Kong.

New York attorneys who attend out-of-state live classroom-format courses (that have been accredited by a New York Approved Jurisdiction (which includes the Law Society of Hong Kong)) may apply for CLE credits earned towards fulfillment of their New York continuing legal education requirement.  In order to claim credit for an out-of-state live classroom-format course or program accredited by a New York Approved Jurisdiction, the attorney must retain for a period of 4 years:
  1. Documentation of the course or program accreditation by the CLE agency of a New York Approved Jurisdiction, and
  2. A certificate of attendance indicating the attorney's name, the title, date and location of the course, the amount of credit and the categories of credit.  The credit must be calculated based on a 50-minute hour, in increments of no less than 25 minutes (.5 hour)
For newly admitted attorney in New York (admitted to the New York Bar less than two years), the attorney is eligible to earn CLE credit through the Approved Jurisdiction policy only for attending transitional or introductory-level courses in a live classroom format.  In order to apply for such credit to fulfill the New York CLE requirement, the attorney must retain documentation that the course was transitional in nature and appropriate for a newly admitted attorney, in addition to the documentation required to claim credit for a live classroom-format course.

Most courses offered by C&S are accredited by the Law Society of Hong Kong and by virtue of the Approved Jurisdiction Policy stated above, these courses should qualify as CLE courses, attendance of which should enable New York attorneys or newly qualified New York Attorneys to fulfill their CLE requirements, depending on the level of the courses and the nature of topics.

It is however up to an individual attorney to decide whether a particular course is appropriate for him / her and whether the course falls under a particular area which he / she needs to obtain CLE in.  Courses and Seminars does not warrant that attendance at our courses for the requisite number of hours would automatically enable the attorney to fulfill his / her specific CLE requirements prescribed by the New York State CLE Board.

To enable New York attorneys to claim CLE points, Courses & Seminars will issue, upon payment of the prescribed fee, a certificate of attendance for attendees who have attended a course and the duration of the course will be stated on the certificate.  A certificate of attendance will only be issued if the attendee has signed in AND signed out before leaving the course.

For more details, please refer to the following websites:
Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Program For Attorneys In The State Of New York
New York's Approved Jurisdiction policy, please refer to
New York State Unified Course System Continuing Legal Education and
Section 6 of the CLE Board Regulations and Guidelines..


(Updated on 9 Jun 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ Certified Documentary Credit Specialist ("CDCS")

Accreditation Details:

CDCS is the professional certification that enables documentary credit practitioners to demonstrate specialist knowledge and application of the skills required for competent practice. CDCS is the international standard for documentary credit specialists. CDCS has been developed in partnership by the Institute of Financial Services (ifs), the official brand of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIB) and the International Financial Services Association (IFSA). It is endorsed by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and developed in consultation with industry experts to ensure that the certification reflects best practice.

For further details, please visit http://www.icchkcbc.org/.


(Updated on 12 Nov 2009)
________________________________________________________________________________________ International Compliance Association (ICA)


Accreditation Details:

The ICA CPD scheme seeks to ensure that ICA members are able to be up-to-date and conversant with current trends, topics, laws and regulations. The CPD rules are part of the quality assurance bond between the member and the association. Every ICA professional member or Fellow (member) to which the CPD rules apply shall complete and record in each year of their membership 15 hours of approved CPD/CPE activities.

In Hong Kong ICA has an established partnership with Courses & Seminars. We are the local operator of the ICA International Diploma in Compliance and the ICA International Diploma in Anti Money Laundering in Hong Kong.

C&S offer a number of courses on subjects that are relevant to the skills of a compliance, AML or financial crime prevention professionals. All of our courses marked with "ICA CPD credits" are accredited as approved CPD activities by ICA. A special 10% discount of the regular course fee is available to ICA members to enroll in our ICA accredited courses. Please provide your ICA membership number when you register to obtain the special discount.

To record CPD hours, you must submit your annual CPD record online. We will issue a certificate of attendance to you as evidence that you have indeed attended the course and will state the duration of the course. We will only issue a certificate of attendance if you have signed in AND signed out before you leave the course.

For more details, please refer to ICA CPD Regulations.




(Updated on 20 Apr 2012)
________________________________________________________________________________________ The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS)


Accreditation Details:

Continuing professional development (CPD)

The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) committed to ensure high standards of work within the profession and promotes continuing professional development (CPD) which is the systematic maintenance, improvement, and extension of professional, technical and managerial knowledge and skills necessary for the execution of the professional duties of Chartered Secretaries.

  • Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is applicable to all members of the Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) starting from 1st August 2011
  • HKICS recommends that all members undertake a least 15 CPD points a year
  • If a member has no intention of applying for the Practitioner’s Endorsement, he/she may obtain the remaining CPD points from other course providers.
  • A CPD Year is a period of 12 months in line with the financial year of HKICS from time to time (which is currently 1st August to 31st July).
  • Will adopt a staged approach in its implementation of mandatory CPD requirements.
Phase
Applicable to members who are qualified:
Commencement date for compliance with mandatory CPD requirements
1
on or after 1st Jan 2005
1st Aug 2011
2
between 1st Jan 2000 to 31st Dec 2004
1st Aug 2013
3
between 1st Jan 1995 to 31st Dec 1999
1st Aug 2015
4
on or before 31st Dec 1994
1st Aug 2017
  • Unlikely ECPD, CPD courses do not need to be approved by the HKICS. It is entirely up to the individual Member to judge the suitability of a particular program.
  • Individual Members can use his or her own discretion to decide which activities are suitable to fulfill the CPD requirements as long as he or she can provide evidence (e.g. attendance certificate) of participation in such CPD activities issued by a competent source.
Enhanced Continuing Professional Development (ECPD)

The Enhanced Continuing Professional Development (ECPD) Programme which the Institute has been running since August 2004 is widely acknowledged by attendees, regulators and employers as an effective method of improving individuals’ secretarial skills and raising industry standards.

To record CPD hours, you must submit your annual CPD record online. We will issue a certificate of attendance to you as evidence that you have indeed attended the course and will state the duration of the course. We will only issue a certificate of attendance if you have signed in AND signed out before you leave the course.

For more details, please refer to ICA CPD Regulations.

(Updated on 5 Sep 2012)