We hear a lot about the brain drain depriving Africa of the skilled professionals needed to support its development. In our interview this month we meet a member who’s come back. Born and raised in Uganda, Lilliane Rumanyika FCCA spent more than a decade working in Canada’s banking sector but is now bringing her skills and experience to bear as CFO of Kenya-based non-profit Inkomoko. Read her story.
On the other side of Africa, there is hope that Ghana has put the worst of its debt problems behind it. As the economy rebounds and businesses rebuild, practitioners are looking forward to the opportunities.
Meanwhile, Las Vegas has been playing host to the annual Microsoft Excel World Championship, an e-sport competition in which the kings and queens of data crunching pit their skills against each other.
The Economist’s Big Mac Index has been amusing finance executives for some years now. It does, though, have a serious point to make about the best ways to understand undervalued and overvalued currencies.
In our careers section we find out how to make a move into the niche and intellectually stimulating specialism of transfer pricing management, and ask whether there are downsides to team-based performance rewards.
Finally, if you missed ACCA’s annual conference Accounting for the Future, and its counterpart the Virtual Public Sector Conference, don’t despair – you can still watch on demand and earn up to 21 CPD units ahead of this year’s deadline. The three-day event looked at trends and developments affecting professional accountants around the world, including opportunities around new technology, imperatives for sustainability, and the new skills needed in this fast-moving landscape.
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