IFA UAE webinar: Technology and Audit: Unlocking Opportunities for SMEs | 3 May

Join our UAE regional ambassador and accounting expert, Saqib Iqbal for this UAE webinar.

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, small businesses and practitioners face increasing pressure to stay competitive while ensuring compliance and transparency. Technology and Audit: Unlocking Opportunities for SMEs explores how emerging technologies—like automation, cloud-based tools, and data analytics—are not just for large corporations but are now accessible and highly beneficial to SMEs.

This webinar will show how small businesses can streamline financial processes, reduce manual errors, and make better-informed decisions through tech-driven audit practices. For small practitioners, it highlights opportunities to enhance service offerings, improve efficiency, and add greater value to clients.

This webinar will cover:

• Understand how emerging technologies are transforming audit processes and how SMEs can leverage tools like automation, cloud accounting, and data analytics to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Identify practical ways to integrate affordable digital solutions into SME operations to enhance compliance, transparency, and financial decision-making.
• Recognize the evolving role of small practitioners in a tech-driven audit environment and how they can adapt their services to stay competitive and add more value to clients.

Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm UAE | 11:30am - 12:30pm UK
CPD: 1 hour
Price: Free 

About the speakers 

Saqib Iqbal

Saqib Iqbal is a highly accomplished senior executive with 15+ years of diverse management experience across Finance, VAT, and Compliance with exemplary leadership skills and ability to set a strategic vision for the company. Saqib is a dynamic, performance-driven leader with a strong track record of success in achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives. Excel in a fast-paced environment while remaining pragmatic, analytical, and focused. Extensive background in managing and motivating cross-functional teams across the organizations. Developed and enforced advanced institutional framework and processes to ensure and maintain regulatory compliance.

With an educational background in Accounting & Finance, Saqib has delivered 300+ lectures and pieces of training. He has multiple educational titles such as ACCA, UAECA, AFA and MIPA attached to his name. Saqib is also the Regional Director of the prestigious Institute of Financial Accountants United Kingdom.

Saqib loves talking about Corporate Reporting, Business Analysis, Financial Modelling and Education.