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SECURE YOUR BUSINESS BY UPSKILLING THE WORKFORCE
Tere are further ways to strengthen your business from the inside, with additional training for current employees. With their administrative
headquarters based in Glasgow’s Hydepark Street, ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) has a phenomenal success rate and offers firms high-quality training for staff. Established in 1904, ACCA
has grown to include 91 offices and centres globally and offers accountancy training on a full-time or part-time basis around work. Explaining the important
role his organisation plays, Craig Vickery, Head of ACCA Scotland, said: “ACCA offers a suite of qualifications catering for everyone of ability and ambition who wish to enter the finance profession. Ranging from entry-level technician qualifications, requiring no prior knowledge or experience with free tuition through our ACCA-X
courses, to the professional ACCA qualification. “In Scotland alone we have
more than 9000 members and students and worldwide well over 600,000.” ACCA has become so
popular, locally and globally, that one person registers every eight minutes, every day of the year with the Glasgow contact centre, which is open 24/7, 365 days a year. Craig added: “In June 2015,
we launched ACCA-X free tuition for the first two levels of our foundations in accountancy qualifications and from January we have introduced low-cost tuition for the final level. Tere has been a fantastic take-up as it allows employers to up-skill their workforce easily and cost-effectively with courses running quarterly. “ACCA members bring
value to the businesses they work in, thinking ahead with a broad skill-set. “Members of ACCA are an
asset to any organisation. Last year, ACCA recruited more students in Scotland than any other accountancy body.”
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