Dear Member, 

I hope you had an enjoyable St Partick's day weekend and everyone is back to work safe and sound.

In this week's newsletter we have a HR article on the considerations for a contract of employment, as well as our usual GDPR tip, this week looking at data access requests.  If you haven't done so already I would encourage you to look at our GDPR guide.

We have two articles showing the importance of digital transformations, the first is the findings of the BPFI Payments Monitor and the ever growing move towards digital payments.  The second article looks at the PwC Retail & Consumer Report 2018, which again highlights the importance of digital access for the consumer. 

I am delighted to announce a new, one day training course, Finance and Accounting Made Easy.  Places are limited so please make sure to book now. 

As always, we’d love to hear from you about any queries you may have, issues you wish to have raised with Government or other stakeholders and your ideas on how we can improve the business environment for us all. Please contact me on tel: 01 605 1602 or e-mail: sven@sfa.ie or tweet: @SFA_Irl or visit: www.sfa.ie.

Kind regards, 

Sven Spollen-Behrens

SFA Director