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Week commencing 1 December 2008
A top PQ
Sally Zhang walked off with the top student prize at the CIMA awards recently. The judges felt she demontsrated an impressive ability to add value to her work at BP by going outside her comfort zone and performing tasks that would normally be allocated to qualified students. Among the other winners on the night were Tesco, CapGemini and the East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust. It may be too late to enter the CIMA awards, but there is still time to enter the PQ awards. If you want to go to a top bash in London then send us 150 words on why you should win! Send your entries to awards@pqmagazine.co.uk by the end of the month.
THE PQ AWARDS CATEGORIES
PQ of the Year
NQ of ther Year
Distance Learning Student of the Year
Temp of the Year
College of the Year
Lecturer oif the Year
Employer/Boss of the Year
Accountancy Team of the Year
Website of the Year
Student Body of the Year
Lifetime Achievement Award
ACCA students disciplined
Two ACCA students were recently removed from the register. Oldham PQ Mohammed Azeem Ali was found gulity of providing a Housing Trust with a false statement of credit card payments, contrary to the Fundamental Principle of Integrity. The committee order that Ali be removed from the student register and pay costs of £1,574.
Another student, Li Lei of Suzhou in China was found guilty of submitting false documents to her employer, including exam results. She was removed from the register andhas to pay costs of £582. In both cases the committee decided that their decision should be published in the press referring to them by name.
Women will cope better!
Female entrepreneurs may be better placed to survive the recession than their male counterparts, because of the difference in their approach to debt, risk, and the management and motivation of staff. ‘Men are likely to have taken on more credit and are now finding access to finance more difficult,’ said Rebecca Harding, managing director of Delta Economics, ‘and women are very much more cautious.’
In recent research undertaken by the firm half the women interviewed saw the health of the economy as a challenge, compared with two thirds of the men. Female business founders were also less concerned about barriers to finance and specific issues faced by the sector in which they operated.
CIMA offers exams in Arabic
CIMA has announced that it’s Certificate in Islamic Finance can noww be sat in Arabic as well as English. The qualification is being offered in partnership with TAGITraining and could open the way for CIMA to offer its professional qualification in another language. CIMA director of education, Robert Jelly, said: “This is an historic moment for CIMA as we offer the first of our qualifications in a language other than English.”
A patron saint
Did you know that accountants have a patron saint! Well the choice was pretty obvious – it’s Matthew, we are told he was one of the 12 Apostles, a tax collector before joining Jesus. Students also have a patron saint – no you do, and she was a woman. Saint Tatiana of Rome was her name. The daughter of a civil servant she has a great story. It doesn’t make nice reading though! After the Romans found she was a Christian they blinded her and beat her for two day, before throwing her into a pit of lions. The lions just laid at her feet so she was beheaded. Just like sitting the accountancy exams then, but with a day’s less torture.
Give us feedback
Keep us on our toes and focused, pleaded CIPFA’s E&T director at the recent NSF conference, sponsored by PQ Magazine. He admitted that the institute doesn’t always get things right first time, adding: “But what helps us is your feedback.” He also revealed that pass rates have been improving and his spies have told him that early indications are that this trend is continuing. Ranges of enhancements to the Student Learning Centre were also announced for August time.
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