ACCA "ME" Talks

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.

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.

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. 

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 AI & ESG and issues pertinent to emerging technologies, technology policy and human-centered technology.

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 AI & ESG and issues pertinent to emerging technologies, technology policy and human-centered technology.

 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".

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 GlobalThis research project explores the aspirations of the younger generation (Gen Z) as they enter theworkplace, it examines how the ambitions of younger people will help shape the next generation of work, discussed the strategies organizations should be adopting to help this generation thrive. 

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".

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.

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!

Join Fazeela Gopalani and a powerhouse team of females: Farida Cassim, Manager - Professional Standards Development, Zahra Jassim, Senior Manager - Professional Standards Development at AAOIFI and Shereen Osman, Senior Manager at PwC who are paving the wave in Islamic finance standards and reporting.

Join Fazeela Gopalani, head of ACCA Middle East and Nauman Mian, CFO of Bayt.com as they talk all things "Accounting in the Digital World " based on ACCA's 2 professional insight papers:• Digital leadership: Leading finance digital transformation which we developed jointly with Alibaba Cloud and considers this from the CFO and finance leadership perspective; and• Digital accountant – digital skills in a transformed world

Join Fazeela and 2 regional SMP powerhouses, Gerard Rahman, CEO of BDO UAE and Tammam Al-Mughairi, CEO of Abu Tammam Grant Thornton Oman, alongside ACCAs own SMP expert; Aleksandra Zaronina-Kirillova, Head of SME Professional Insights as they talk through two recent ACCA Professional Insight Papers: • Responsible SMP Pacesetters • Careers in small and medium-sized accountancy practices (SMPs)

Join Fazeela Gopalani, Head of ACCA Middle East and Saad Maniar, Chair of ACCA UAE Members advisory committee and Partner at Crowe as they give a regional viewpoint on ACCAs recently produced Professional Insights reports: Covid-19 Global survey and Covid-19 "road to recovery" that looked at how organizations around the world are responding to the Covid-19 crisis and a few of ACCA's recommendations for charting a path to recovery.