The annual Association of Chartered and Certified
Accountants (ACCA) Students Seminar was held on the Saturday September 28, 2013
at the auditorium drawing a crowd of over five hundred students from universities
all over the city including Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, Strathmore University, KCA
University, Mount Kenya University among others.
The ACCA is a global
professional body of accountants
Chartered
Certified Accountant
qualification (ACCA or FCCA).
It is one of the largest global
accountancy bodies with over 155,000 members and 432,000 students in 170
countries. The theme for this seminar was “The world is your playground,” while
its purpose was to promote the course among university students.
The seminar was graced by a number of
great speakers from the accounting and finance industry such as Ms. Ruma Shah,
Head of Group Internal Audit at the I & M Bank, Mr. Joseph Sitati, Chief
Finance & Administration Officer at Deacons Kenya, and Mr. Geoffrey Ochieng,
Education Services Manager at ACCA Kenya. There were also global inspirational
speakers such as Dr. Wale Akinyemi urged students not to accept mediocrity and
had this to say on mentorship: “
The full-day seminar ended with
students anxious to attend the next one which has been scheduled for January
2014. As one of the students stated
“
It’s
been an amazing day, one of my greatest lessons from this seminar is that my
mind has the ability to take me further than I thought and in regard to
accounting and finance, experience and certification is very important. With
all the tips and explanations we have been given about the finance industry and
how to make money and to be a professional, I feel that I’m at an advantage
because I have a different mind-set
.
”