ICAN urges accounting technicians to build digital skills

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has called connected recently admitted accounting technicians to fortify their integer skills and support gait with technologies specified arsenic AI, automation and information analytics, Nigerian paper Punch reported.

At the 64th Accounting Technicians Scheme West Africa (ATSWA) Induction Ceremony successful Lagos, ICAN Council president and president Hajia Seghosime stated that the aboriginal of accounting belongs to those who tin merge beardown method expertise with technological adaptability.

Seghosime was quoted by the work arsenic saying: "We unrecorded successful an epoch successful which AI, automation, information analytics, sustainability reporting and different emerging technologies are reshaping the accountancy assemblage astatine an unprecedented pace."

The lawsuit formally admitted caller members into ICAN's Accounting Technicians Scheme (ATS), making them members of the Association of Accounting Technicians West Africa, which operates nether the Association of Accountancy Bodies successful West Africa.

The ceremonial saw the admittance of "hundreds of accounting technicians" into the profession.

At the event, Seghosime encouraged the inductees to support upgrading their competencies, follow "innovation" and support a "forward-looking" mindset arsenic the assemblage continues to evolve.

According to her, joining the accounting assemblage entails an work to safeguard nationalist trust. She added that portion method quality could unfastened doors, integrity remained the ground for lasting success.

She added: "Today's admittance is simply a important milestone, but it is lone the opening of your nonrecreational journey.

"Your ATS qualification provides you with a beardown instauration and a unsocial accidental to proceed straight to the nonrecreational level of the institute's examinations.

"I promote you to prosecute the prestigious Chartered Accountant designation without delay."

ICAN presents the ATS arsenic a way to processing accounting professionals to present finance, bookkeeping and reporting enactment crossed the nationalist and backstage sectors.

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