In many ways, the demands of employers have changed in the context of skills that they seek from their employees. Join Taher Kapasi, Asad Ali Shariff, Chief Financial Officer, Standard Chartered Bank UAE, and Amar Mehra Senior Finance Trainer, Kaplan Professional Middle East as they openly chat about employer expectations that extend far beyond that of the academic qualification ..read more

Failure can feel even more painful in the spotlight of another’s perfection. But nobody’s lives are perfect. Everyone messes up. Everyone fails. Everyone has bad things happen to them at some point.  Listen to industry-leading tutors alongside a real-life example of an ACCA student journey and his failures on his road to success.  In this session we aim to inspire you with insights to help cope with exam failure so that YOU can keep plodding on with your qualification journey, achieving your career progression goals ..read more

Join Taher Kapasi, Regional Education Manager for ACCA Middle East as he chats with 3 ACCA Prizewinners and gives you insight into their "secret to success".  Listen as they talk about their habits and how their lifestyle/study habits help them outperform thousands of other students.  ..read more

Join Fazeela Gopalani and Narayanan Vaidyanathan, Portfolio Head - Business Futures here at ACCA for this two-part podcast, as they aim to help you understand AI and connect the dots between AI and ESG whereby they take an in-depth look at ACCA and CA ANZ Professional Insights Paper; Ethics for sustainable AI adoption: connecting AI and ESG. Part One focuses on explaining in simple terms what AI actually is, what it stands for, includes and in particular how AI is changing the face of the accounting and finance profession.  Part Two focuses on the professional insights report, connecting ..read more

  In today’s session, we’re focusing on how students can further develop their learning strategies to enhance the way they consume knowledge on the path to achieving their career and development goals. Join Taher Kapasi, Regional Education Manager, ACCA Middle East, Nicky Parkes – Regional Head of Education, ACCA MESA, Natalie Al-Samarrai, Head of ACCA - Senior Financial Trainer for Kaplan Professional Middle East an ACCA Approved learning partner and Pooja Vaswani – a current ACCA student as they talk through all things "Learning Strategies ..read more

Join Fazeela as she chats with Conor McHugh, Co-founder of Alchemy Selection Consultancy Ltd, as they take an in-depth look at the Top Ten Employer tips to harness the potential of Gen Z, which have been gathered as part of ACCA and IFAC's joint professional Insights report (available here): Ground-breakers: Gen Z and the future of accountancy | ACCA Global This research project explores the aspirations of the younger generation (Gen Z) as they enter the workplace, it examines how the ambitions of younger people will help shape the next generation of work, discussed the strategies organizati ..read more

Welcome to this edition of ACCA Me Talks, with Shiraz Khan, Head of Tax and Partner at Al Tamimi & Company, Nauman Mian, CFO of Bayt.com and Mustafa Malik, CFO of Philips KSA where we'll discuss our recently launched report “Value Added Tax - Middle East Lessons Learnt ..read more

Welcome to our very first ACCA "ME"Talks – Student Focus, in other words, ACCA Middle East talks all things, Students, with Taher Kapasi, Education Manager at ACCA Middle East. In this Episode, Taher takes taking an in-depth look into the Learning in the Digital Sphere and embracing the shift to virtual classrooms, in order to help find the optimal learning/educator balance ..read more

Join us on this extended ACCA Me Talks, with Dr Victoria Mountford, Clinical Psychologist from Maudsley Health located in Abu Dhabi, Dr Saliha Afridi, Clinical Psychologist and Managing Director of Lighthouse Arabia located in Dubai and ACCA Advocate of the Year Martin Byrne as we shine a light on this subject, particularly in relation to ACCA and the immense stress that finance and accounting professionals across the globe have been under since this pandemic hit ..read more

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