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On August 27 2014, MECA CFO Alliance (MECA), the largest CFO networking group in Middle East will be hosting the MECA CFO Leadership Conference at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel,...
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KPMG’s UAE team has continually demonstrated their commitment to performing the best practice by exploring new and innovative ways to enhance client management. By participating in elite management training...
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PwC AND Latham & Watkins teamed up with NASDAQ Dubai to hold a seminar on how to carry out initial public offerings (IPOs), in response to rapidly growing interest...
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INCONSISTENT CAPITAL ratios is as big an issue for banks as unfinished accounting standards, said Robert Hodgkinson (pictured), the ICAEW executive director, at a joint ICAEW/IFRS Foundation conference in...
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BUILDING ON its current nationalisation programmes, Deloitte ran a nation-wide recruitment campaign in 2013 in Saudi Arabia to identify young talented Saudi men and women and train them to...
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FTSE GROUP (“FTSE”), the global index provider, has announced the launch of its new FTSE Sharia’h Developed Minimum Variance Index. The index series aims to deliver reduced index volatility...
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THE ANNUAL salary survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) shows that in 2013, qualified CIMA members in the UAE are earning on average AED47,765 in...
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THE CHARTERED Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), in an effort to make its qualification even more accessible to ambitious students and professionals in the UAE and across GCC, has...
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A SURVEY of more than 200,000 business and engineering students from 12 of the world’s largest economies named Grant Thornton one of the top 50 most attractive global business...
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THE ASSOCIATION OF Chartered Accountants (ACCA) and the US Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) have said their Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) will not proceed. ACCA and IMA said they...
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DUBAI FINANCIAL Market (DFM) will organise its International Investor Roadshow in New York on September 24 and 25, 2013, in collaboration with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The event...
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Indian expatriates in UAE reap huge as rupee goes on a free fall… INDIAN RESIDENTS residing in the UAE “have been fortunate enough to get an 11% increment in...
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INTERNATIONAL NETWORK of independent accounting and consultancy firms UHY, has welcomed a new member in Georgia, the ARG Group LLC, to its global network. ARG Group LLC was established...
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STANDARD CHARTERED recently hosted a Macro-Economic briefing session titled; “Transforming, Rebalancing, and Outperforming” for its corporate clients in the UAE. The bank is holding similar briefings to clients in...
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EASTNETS, A global provider of compliance and payments solutions, has announced that it is organising informative road shows across the GCC and Pakistan to help financial institutions understand the...
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HERALDING A new era of education, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) will soon have a TV channel for its members as well as those studying accountancy,...
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SENIOR BUSINESS representatives from Dubai have agreed that sustainability reporting – which provides information about organisations’ economic, environmental, social and governance performance – has an important role to play...
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ACCORDING TO Ernst & Young’s 2013 first quarter IPO update for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), regional capital markets recorded a twentyfold increase in capital raised and...
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BUILDING ON previous milestones and achievements of its flagship annual conference, the UAE Internal Audit Association (IIA UAE) recently organised a successful and a record-breaking 14th Annual Regional Audit...
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Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) recently led discussions on technical topics and shared tips on soft skills development at the Grand Millennium Hotel Al Wahda in Abu Dhabi. Business professionals,...