Ghanaians top the world in ACCA exams

Kwaku Osei-Mensah, emerged the world’s best performing student in ACCA’s Audit and Assurance Paper out of over 12,000 students who sat the exam globally in the September 2017 exams.

Speaking to Kwaku Osei-Mensah, he could not hide his joy, “I couldn’t believe it initially. The

feeling was great. I just couldn’t contain it. For me, from the beginning I have been putting in my

best.”

“For students sitting the exams, you should focus, it’s all about you, you have to work hard” he

added.

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Another top prizewinner was Desmond Bredu who emerged the world’s second best performing student in Advanced Audit and Assurance out of over 8000 students who sat the exams globally in March 2018.

Alex Dankyi Asare emerged the 3rd Best Performing Student in Corporate Reporting amongst over 8500 students who sat the exams globally in March 2017.

The Summit which was under the theme “Becoming a Strategic Business Leader” saw close to two thousand participants throng the Accra International Conference Centre with keen interest in understanding ACCA’s new qualification and ways to improve their employability skills.

The Summit began with a Job Fair and a CV Clinic facilitated by ACCA’s Business Development Team and Job Agency Jobberman.

The main event commenced with a presentation on Why ACCA is Changing its Qualification with key emphasis on the research about the future of the Accountancy Profession. Participants were elated to hear about the four key drivers- Increased regulation and stronger governance, Advances in digital technology, Higher expectations, and Continued globalization and how these crystalize into seven skills and qualities needed to be a successful finance professional (The 7 Quotients).

This became the foundation for the panel discussion which featured Charlotte Forson (Audit & Assurance Partner of Deloitte & Touche), Michael Nyarko (Risk-Based Audit Manager of the Central Bank of Ghana), Hayfron Aboagye (Assurance Partner at PwC Ghana) and to give an HR perspective, Ibukun Janet Ogundipe (Country HR Manager of Maersk Ghana).

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The panelists discussed the seven skills and qualities needed to be a successful finance professional where they shared their knowledge and experience on the subject matter.

They identified that there was the need for every finance professional to maintain the balance between the Technical and Ethical Skills with the rest of the six soft skills. They impressed on the audience to take keen interest in digitization in the wake of global trends.

Following this, the Education Manager for ACCA Ghana Kwaku Anim Boadu recapped the changes to the ACCA qualification and the important dates to note with key emphasis on the introduction of ACCA’s Strategic Business Leader, Strategic Business Reporting and Computer-Based Exams for all its fundamental level papers.

Paper Prize Winners and Top Affiliate from June 2017 to June 2018 were all given prizes with short recorded video presentations of the top Affiliates who shared their experiences of the ACCA journey and what these meant to them now.

Ghanaians top the world in ACCA exams

Three Ghanaians have emerged top globally in the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) exams.

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