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Webster Buchanan's Global Academy

Webster Buchanan’s Global Academy provides a series of online learning courses designed for Payroll, HR, Finance and IT professionals. Run by a combination of experienced payroll practitioners, research analysts and independent consultants, the courses are tailored for individuals at every stage of the multi-country payroll cycle. 


Unlike traditional classroom-based courses, at the Global Academy delegates can:

  • Listen to seminars at a time of their choosing
  • Listen from home or work: there is no travel or accommodation required
  • Repeat parts of the seminar as they go through
  • Take part in applied exercises and get feedback from tutors
  • Email questions to the presenters
  • Participate in a live online Q&A
The first courses will be published in October 2009. If you are interested in attending any of these courses, please contact us in confidence for further information stating the particular course(s) you are interested in.

The courses are divided into five streams:

Stream A: Introductory Courses These sessions outline the principles of multi-country payroll and the practical issues involved in building and implementing a strategy.
More details here 

Stream B: Starting out in Multi-country Payroll (smaller international footprints) These eight courses cover the practical steps involved in analyzing your international set-up, developing a strategy and building the business case. This Stream is aimed at companies with five or fewer countries. More details here

Stream C: Starting out in Multi-country Payroll (larger international footprints) These eight courses cover similar ground to Stream B, but are aimed at companies with anything from half a dozen to 100 countries. More details here

Stream D: Tackling the Vendor Equation
These courses tackle the practical issues of devising a vendor strategy (including two-tier approaches and in-house versus outsourcing decisions), selecting vendors and vendor management. Full details will be published in October.

Stream E: Intermediate Courses These courses, due to be published in the fall, are aimed at individuals who are further along the multi-country cycle. Further details will be published in November.