ICAJ Honours Graduates of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme Examination

The ICAJ, in collaboration with ACCA, honoured 139 graduates of the Joint Examination Scheme in pomp and fanfare at a Graduation Ceremony and Awards function on Saturday, September 25. The ceremony was held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel

The graduates were recognized for their achievements in the December 2003 and June 2004 sittings of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme Examination. ICAJ awards were presented to outstanding students who excelled at various levels of the Joint Scheme examination.

No candidate met the criteria for the Part 1 Examination award. However, the ICAJ recognized the efforts of Leonie Charlton, a December 2003 student who is employed as a Night Auditor at the Hilton Kingston Hotel. Miss Charlton attained the highest average of 56.7%, of all the candidates who sat the December 2003 examination.

Fiona Hyman, Audit Senior Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Montego Bay) and Marsha Donald, Senior Auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Kingston), were the recipients of the Part 3 Examination award for December 2003 and June 2004 respectively. Both students attained the highest average of those completing Part 3 of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme examination.

Most outstanding and noteworthy was the record of performance of Fiona Hyman, who not only won the Part 3 Examination Award but was also the recipient of the Sushil Jain, Raphael Gordon and Deloitte and Touche Awards.

The Sushil Jain Award is presented each year to the youngest graduate completing the final stage of the examination on the first attempt.

The Deloitte and Touche Award is presented to the Jamaican Student who attains the highest score of not less that seventy percent in Paper 3.1 - Audit and Assurance Services on the first attempt.

The Raphael Gordon Award is presented to the Jamaican graduate who attains the highest pass mark of not less than seventy percent in Paper 3.7 - Strategic Financial Management. The recipient must be successful in the paper on the first attempt.

Guest speaker at the ceremony was Mr. Vishnu Maharaj, ACCA Council Member.



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