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Governance, Transparency and Service to Members & Students www.icap.org.pk ICAP Signs MoU with Concordia Colleges The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) group and the leading accounting body of the nation signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with – CA Pakistan, to strengthen the brand of both the Concordia Colleges – a project of Beaconhouse Group. partnering institutions and fulfillment of ICAP vision of The MoU was signed by Nooruddin Ahmed, director recruiting quality students with sound base and well- Developments Beaconhouse Group and Abdul Malik, rounded personality. chief operating officer and secretary ICAP at the Head Office of Beaconhouse Group on July 31, 2017. Speaking on the occasion the chief operating officer and secretary ICAP Abdul Malik said, “We see this The Beaconhouse - Concordia become the first collaboration as a major step forward in education Accounting School System of ICAP in Pakistan for innovation and as an endeavour to offer dynamic routes offering its courses in 10 cities spreading over Punjab of achievement to our brilliant youth. It will serve not and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK). This development only to fill an important need of our students but also would bring quality professional education to the access will ultimately be a contribution to the industry and the of many brilliant and promising students, especially economy of Pakistan.” girls, who couldn’t avail the opportunity to join one of most respected and rewarding professions otherwise. Beaconhouse Group chairperson Nasreen Mahmud ICAP plans to broaden the access of quality accounting Kasuri said that Beaconhouse Group is determined education through the leading educational institutions to transform the Concordia Colleges into a center of as its strategic partners, both school systems and excellence for achieving the goal of betterment and universities, so as to provide an opportunity to a larger prosperity of Pakistan through provision of quality number of brilliant Pakistani students from across the education. This collaboration can provide opportunity country to join the prestigious and rewarding profession to the talented students in rural areas by giving them of chartered accountancy. a novel option of pursuing chartered accountancy as a career. The president ICAP Nadeem Yousuf Adil said that the Institute is striving for quality intake of students into The signing ceremony was also attended by the folds of the CA profession. This collaboration is a representatives of Beaconhouse Group and ICAP senior remarkable alliance between a top ranking educational officials. September 2017 5