Deloitte Professional Academy (DPA) |
The Deloitte Professional Academy is a high level practical learning experience, designed to significantly enhance careers of experienced financial reporting professionals and all those who make input to preparation of financial statements. It will equip you with the practical skills, knowledge and give access to tools, templates and resources you need to help your organization comply with the new financial reporting framework. This programme is for you if you are presently working in the:
- Finance department
- Treasury department
- Compliance unit
- Internal audit
- Risk management and control
- Technical Team and Underwriting Team in Insurance companies
Our aim is to make you a change agent so that you can assist your organization minimizes the impact of the conversion to IFRS. We place emphasizes on building the capabilities you need to understand and apply International Financial Reporting Standards in your organization.
Benefits
- A firm grounding for developing skills and competencies essential for financial reporting
- Access to Deloitte IFRS templates, tools, valuation models and resources
- ICAN/ACCA CPD accreditation
- Opportunities of certification by a world class IFRS advisor
- Teaching facilitated by IFRS specialists with field experience
- Opportunities to discover new career path in financial valuations
Our Learning Approach
You will benefit immensely from our programmes which are geared towards aligning theory with practice of IFRS. Adapted to suit the Nigerian local business environment, we have identified the reporting standards specific to your industry thereby reducing the learning time. All the standards relevant to your industry are organized in modules. The modules consist of a highly effective combination of lectures, syndicate and e-learning, involving practical skills sessions to prepare for real world application of skills acquired. In a typical module you can expect 18 learning hours for 3 days starting Wednesday to Friday.
It is a residency programme with comfortable accommodation provided in some of the best hotels on the island, conducive for learning. Further, learning is available on our e-learning module. On completion of the e-learning module you will be awarded general level accreditation and working level at the end of the programme. The focus is on developing your financial reporting skills so that you can apply knowledge learnt on your present job. We have deployed array of activities to support your learning:
- Interactive lectures
- Individual and group exercises
- Discussion sessions
- Case studies
- Written position papers
- Practical demonstration of the use of tools, templates and models
On completing the programme you will have confidence to approach your current job with skills acquired.
Learning Modules
Our range of tailored made modules will help develop process specific knowledge. The Professional Academy programme consists of the following modules:
- Insurance
- Banking and Related Financial Institutions
- Pensions and Fund Managers and Brokerage
- Manufacturing
- Oil and Gas (Upstream and Downstream)
- Telecommunication and Media
- Construction
- Other Service Organisation
- Transportation
- Merchandising and Trading
- Agro-Allied Business
- General Purpose Training
