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ACCA "ME" Talks

14 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -

Join ACCA's Middle East team as they "chat" all things Accounting and more! 

Join Fazeela Gopalani, head of ACCA Middle East, as she talks all things Finance Profession and more, with leading figures from across the Middle East.

Join Taher Kapasi, Regional Education Manager on ACCA "ME" Talks - Student Focus, as he talks all things Students, Study and more, with leading learning partners, technical experts and axamaniers all to aid student progression. 

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Episode 7: Meeting the Expectations of Future employers

May 30, 2022 00:00 - 40 minutes - 93.4 MB

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.

Episode 5: Student Focus: Dealing with Exam Failure

February 09, 2022 00:00 - 32 minutes - 75.2 MB

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, achi...

Episode 3: An insight in to the study habits of 3 ACCA Exam prizewinners.

November 10, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 56.8 MB

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. 

Episode 10: Understanding AI whilst connecting the dots between AI and ESG| Part Two

November 04, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 64.5 MB

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 o...

Episode 8: Understanding AI whilst connecting the dots between AI and ESG | Part One

November 03, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 60.4 MB

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 o...

Episode 2: Student Focus - Building an effective learning strategy | What is learning strategy and why use one!

July 19, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutes - 86.2 MB

 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 st...

Episode 7: Groundbreakers, generation Z and the future of accountancy and how employers can harness the potential of Gen Z.

July 05, 2021 06:22 - 25 minutes - 37.4 MB Video

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 Global This research project explores the aspirations of the younger generation (Gen Z) as they enter theworkplace, it examines how th...

Episode 6: Value Added Tax - Middle East Lessons Learnt

May 25, 2021 09:31 - 49 minutes - 76.5 MB Video

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".

Episode 1: Student Focus - Learning in the Digital Sphere – embracing the shift to virtual classrooms

May 23, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 20.8 MB Video

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.

Episode 5: ACCA 'Me'Talks' Focuses on Well-being

April 21, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 108 MB

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!

Episode 4: All things Islamic Finance with AAOIFI and PWC

March 23, 2021 06:56 - 29 minutes - 42.6 MB Video

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.

Episode 3: Accounting in the Digital World

February 17, 2021 00:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MB

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

SMP's the unsung hero's

November 18, 2020 08:50 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MB

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)

ACCA Talks All Things Post Covid

September 30, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 52.3 MB

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.