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No matter where you started, as an ACCA member, you’re always going places! Take a look at our fantastic new marketing campaign, which demonstrates our commitment to our members globally and the impact we have on their lives.
On Monday 24 April we were delighted to win Study Resource of the Year at the 20th PQ Magazine annual awards for our student innovation My Exam Performance! The award was accepted by Jacky Bateman, Head of ACCA Qualifications, and James Patrick, Head of Education Solutions and Student Support. PQ Magazine is the leading UK magazine for part qualified accountants, providing news, study tips and career advice. Its annual awards recognise excellence in all areas supporting those on their journey to join the profession. Held at Proud Embankment, ACCA was shortlisted for Study Resource of the Year and Best Use of Social Media. Nominees were judged by an independent panel of judges and then by the magazine’s editor Graham Hambly. As well picking up this prestigious prize, ACCA students and members impressed the judges and took home trophies in the following categories: Accountancy graduate of the year: Xhulja Duka NQ of the year: Laurence De Ste Croix PQ of the year: Evie Todd
Joseph Owolabi has been elected president of ACCA
Delighted to launch our new ‘Planning and performance management paradigm’ report at World Congress of Accountants with our partners Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. A big thanks to our panellists Sanjay Rughani, Dev Ramnarine FCCA and Taryn Rulton for a great discussion. Read the report, produced in association with PwC, at https://lnkd.in/e4PHq6Wv
ACCA president Joseph Owolabi, FCCA, PMIIA, MAICD on stage at the final day of the World Congress of Accountants in Mumbai joining a panel on public sector priorities. Read our new global guide for professionalisation in public sector finance, produced with IFAC: http://ow.ly/OLr450LHca9
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has announced a median gender pay gap of 6.51%. The business recently published its 2020 UK gender pay gap report for the fourth consecutive year since 2018, which showed its median gender pay gap fall by 4.6% in 2019 to 6.51% in 2020. It also highlighted that the mean gender pay gap increased by 0.55% in 2019 to 10.57% in 2020. ACCA also published its ethnicity pay gap data for the first time, based on 57% of ACCA’s UK population who chose to disclose their ethnicity as at 5 April 2020. The data revealed a median pay gap of negative 15.66% and a mean pay gap of negative 7.16%, as the average hourly earnings of black, Asian and other minority ethnic colleagues are higher than that of white colleagues.