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Experts discuss research and insights in the ACCA Accountants for Business Global Forum Pakistan 2011
ACCA Pakistan organised Accountants for Business Global Forum Pakistan 2011 in Lahore today, 17 November 2011. The event aimed to surface the challenges facing businesses and in particular the accountancy profession through an exciting mix of three discussions on Risk and Reward – shared perspectives, Maximising People Power – effective talent management in finance and [...]
ACCA – Accountants for Business Global Forum Pakistan 2011
ACCA Pakistan is organising Accountants for Business Global Forum Pakistan 2011 on 17 November 2011 at Royal Palm Country & Golf Club in Lahore. Participants including senior HR, finance and accounting professionals from private and public sector and practice will attend the event. More and more businesses demand from their finance, the ability to think about the future of [...]
ACCA’s organises train the trainer initiative
As part of ACCA’s continued efforts to develop excellence in professional accounting education and establish best practices amongst tertiary accounting education providers, ACCA Pakistan organised “Train The Trainer” workshop on 11, 12 and 14 October 2011 in Lahore, Islamabad and Karachi respectively. Almas Abbas Ali, Education Manager, ACCA Pakistan and Mujtaba Iqbal, CEO, CFTR were [...]
ACCA organises Career Expo
ACCA Pakistan organised Career Expo in Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, Abbottabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Sialkot, Multan, Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Hyderabad. The Career Expo comprised presentations on Career Planning, ACCA qualification / Foundations in Accountancy- suite of qualifications and employment opportunities in the field of finance and accountancy. ACCA representatives including ACCA members and other senior professionals from the industry spoke [...]
ACCA Pakistan trains career advisors
ACCA Pakistan recently organized a series of Career Counseling workshops for teachers and student advisors in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. ACCA recognizes the integral role career guidance plays in helping students identify their natural talents in order to pursue a career promising them professional success. The workshops were based on the concept that the best career [...]
ACCA qualifications in demand in challenging times
The demand for a professional accountancy qualification has remained high during tough economic times as the results from the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) examinations in June reveal that 196,000 students sat papers, with more than 6,000 taking a major step towards membership of the global body for professional accountants. Candidates around the world took more [...]
ACCA Career Expo 2011
ACCA Pakistan organised ACCA Career Expo this week in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Rawalpindi and Hyderabad. The events in each city featured an exciting career counseling session, launch of Foundations in Accountancy (FIA) and ACCA career fair. There was also a session on employment opportunities for ACCA trainees and members. Various ACCA approved learning partners disseminated information on ACCA and FIA [...]
ACCA’s third online virtual conference attracts big names to discuss important issues for the business world
More than 6,000 finance professionals have signed-up for ACCA’s (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) online Research & Insights Conference which launched last week. The conference sessions can be viewed on-demand via the ACCA website until 27 October 2011 at the following link: www.accaglobal.com/RIConference The conference covered a wide range of topics from a wealth of [...]
Maximizing People Power – The Finance Function Under Pressure
Talent Management must be placed at the heart of the organisation. It must have buy in from senior management and also the structure of the business must support the talent development principle. At a time when the country’s economy is under tremendous pressure and businesses are finding it difficult to maintain their efficiency or even [...]
ACCA Pakistan receives Best Accountancy Brand Award third time in a row
ACCA Pakistan has been awarded Brand of the year award in the category of Professional Accountancy programme 2010. The award ceremony was organised by the Intellectual Property Association and the Brands Foundation. Mr Shamez Mukhi, Head of Marketing, Communications and Media Relations received the Award on behalf of ACCA Pakistan from the chief guest, Prime Minister [...]
High inflation and low investment hampers recovery, ACCA survey shows
South Asian finance professionals more pessimistic amid disappearing opportunities Rising inflation and flat investment have kept the world’s economic recovery stuck in reverse, the latest Global Economic Conditions survey from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has shown. Of the 2,186 ACCA members surveyed between 16 May and 6 June 2011, only 26% reported increased confidence, [...]
Discuss, network, learn and influence with ACCA MENASA Region Learning Providers
ACCA (The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is holding the MENASA Region (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia) Learning Providers’ Conference 2011 on 20th and 21st July 2011 in Sri Lanka. ACCA’s MENASA Learning Providers’ Conference 2011, which will be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, is designed to support ACCA’s learning providers, so they [...]
Askari Bank becomes ACCA Gold Approved Employer
ACCA seeks to recognise and reward leading organisations that offer continual learning and development support to ACCA trainees. Having partnerships with over 8,500 employers across the world, ACCA Pakistan recently awarded Askari Bank Limited with Gold approved employer status. The approved employer certificate was presented to Mr M. R Mehkari, President and Chief Executive, Askari Bank [...]
Pre-Budget is all about planning the World and Post Budget is about working the plan
ACCA Pakistan considers Pakistan’s Federal Budget 2011 to be aiming for increasing the tax base by acknowledging the need for rational, fair and equitable taxation. The devolution of certain significant budgetary decisions to provinces last year and with agriculture being a provincial subject, the provincial budgets to be announced shortly would assist in assessment of [...]
ACCA Pakistan Annual Network Meeting
ACCA Pakistan organised Annual Network Meeting on Monday 26 May 2011 at a local hotel in Karachi. The aim of the Meeting was to appraise the members of the activities of the Members Network Panel and the sub-committees formed by the Members Network Panel for the year ending 31 December 2010. ACCA opines that networking at the [...]
