ICAJ Honours Graduates of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme Examination

The ICAJ, in collaboration with ACCA, honoured 146 graduates of the Joint Examination Scheme in pomp and fanfare at a Graduation and Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 10. The ceremony was held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.

The graduates were recognised for their achievements in the December 2002 and June 2003 sittings of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme Examination. ICAJ awards were presented to students who were hailed as "the best of the best" for their outstanding performance at various levels of the Joint Scheme examination.

The Part 1 Examination awardee, who successfully completed three subjects at the first attempt with the highest average of those who sat the examination, was Denise Lorraine Roye, a Storekeeper at Churches Teachers College.

Fiona Nicole Reid, Senior Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Omar Leighton Grey, Senior Staff Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, were the recipients of the Part 3 Examination award for December 2002 and June 2003 respectively. Both students attained the highest average of those completing Part 3 of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme exam. A consolation prize was awarded to Kedisha Freckleton, June 2003 graduate, who also attained the same average score as the Part 3 awardee but failed a subject at the first sitting of the Part 3 examination.

The ICAJ Bursary was awarded to 24-year-old Kirk Williams, who will be sitting Part 2 of the ICAJ/ACCA Joint Scheme exam in December 2003.

Jodi Audi-Gayle Gager, June 2003 graduate and an Accountant at KPMG was the recipient of the Sushil Jain award, presented each year to the youngest graduate completing the final stage of the examination on the first attempt.

The Jasper Burnett award which is given to the Jamaican candidate who obtains the highest pass mark in paper 3.5 - Strategic Business Planning Development, was presented to Michelle Swaby, Auditor at Deloitte & Touche for December 2002 and Tawana Shaune Gray, Financial Analyst at the Ministry of Local Government for June 2003.

Recipients of the Deloitte and Touche Award for December 2002 and June 2003 respectively were Tricia Brown-Rowe, Senior Auditor at the National Housing Development Corporation and Tawana Shaune Gray.

Guest speaker, Miss Sandra Shirley, Research Fellow at the Mona Institute of Business, UWI congratulated the graduates for rising to the challenge of the examinations and proving their competence by successfully completing the requirements of the ICAJ/ACCA professional exams. She told the graduates that they were now poised for new challenges ahead.

She, however, cautioned that the future of the accountancy profession rests with them as graduates. "Together with the more experienced members of this profession, you must continue to hold the ideals for which your profession stands, that is, integrity, honesty, objectivity, probity, confidentiality and free of conflict of interest not only in appearance but in fact," Miss Shirley stated.

In her response on behalf of the graduates', Michelle Swaby, noted that while the completion of the examinations was a tremendous achievement, the graduates should recognize that it marked the beginning of many more challenges.

"The discipline we have acquired, the dedication and diligence that we have demonstrated during our preparation, must now be applied as we take on new challenges. Let us therefore, as the theme proclaims - rise to the challenge," she added.



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