ACCA Middle East News
ACCA partners with the DIFC Academy to further advance the Accountancy and Tax profession
This partnership is designed to further develop and support the accountancy and tax profession in the UAE between the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the DIFC Academy Fazeela Gopalani, Head of ACCA Middle East pictured with Alya Al Zarouni,...
Pass rates announced for ACCA’s March 2020 exam sitting
ACCA today announces the pass rates of its latest exam sitting for March 2020. The results saw 68,247 students around the world entering 79,214 exams. A total of 3,292 students completed their final exams to become ACCA affiliates. Alan...
Covid-19: 80% of business leaders suggest significant downturn in expected revenues and profit year-on-year
Organisations large and small, in the public and private sectors, have expressed deep concerns about the impact of Covid-19 on their people, productivity and cashflow, according to ACCA’s new global research among 10,000 finance professionals. The most severe impact...
Economic confidence collapses to record low as world’s economies fight Covid-19 pandemic
Accountancy experts say global economic confidence in Q1 has capitulated as economies struggle to get to grips with the fallout from the Coronavirus. A global survey of more than 870 senior accountancy practitioners, who reflect the outlook of thousands of businesses...
Covid-19: An update from Jenny Gu, president, ACCA, and Helen Brand, chief executive, ACCA
6 April 2020: As we move into April, we want to keep you updated on key developments at ACCA as we all continue to deal with the unprecedented impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Recently, UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s issued a statement where he...
ACCA UK statement about the Labour Party leader appointment
Claire Bennison, head of ACCA UK comments on today's decision. ‘We welcome the Labour Party’s election of Sir Keir Starmer as its leader. ‘During this unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, now more than ever a robust opposition is crucial in order to hold the government to...
UN Sustainable Development Goals – better assessment to deliver the decade of action, says ACCA
Supreme Audit Institutions play a critical role in ‘transforming our world’ , and new types of decision-making by governments are needed if SDG targets are to be met, says ACCA's new report. The 2020s have been called ‘the decade of action’ for the United Nations’...
ACCA appoints Hani Karunia as Head of ACCA Indonesia
ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has appointed Hani Karunia as the new head of ACCA Indonesia. Hani joins ACCA from Accenture where she was the country lead for Global Mobility Services. She brings a wealth of experience in business...
ACCA Economic Briefing: insights into the economic consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic
24 March 2020: ACCA’s chief economist, Michael Taylor, presents the latest of ACCA’s economic insights into the economic consequences of the Covid-19 epidemic The global economy is heading into a recession, initially at least a pretty severe one. The measures...
ACCA Statement: June 2020 Exams
As a global body, the spread of Covid–19 has meant that in line with governments’ and other official advice, we cancelled our March 2020 exams where we were required to and ran exams where we could. For June 2020, we currently propose the same approach – to run exams...