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| Sunday, 14 March 2004 |
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ABS links with CIMA-UK The Academy of Business Studies (ABS), Sri Lanka, last week entered into a strategic business partnership with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK (CIMA). This partnership brings with it, global recognition for ABS and stands as the first venture of this nature for CIMA. The MoU supporting the partnership was signed by CIMA Chief Executive, Charles Tilly, and ABS Chief Executive, Faris Ismail, at the CIMA Lecturers' Conference in London held earlier this year attended by over 250 CIMA delegates from around the world. According to this partnership, CIMA and ABS would unite across a range of activities aimed at improving the quality of CIMA tuition as well as expanding into new markets. ABS Course Director, Bertram Paul, said that CIMA and ABS would share strategic marketing and business plans of mutual interest and ABS would henceforth stand among an elite group of CIMA tuition providers throughout the world. At the press briefing, ABS Managing Director, K. Wasantha S. Fernando, said that ABS was set up with the aim of providing quality education opportunities to students aiming at obtaining professional qualifications in a range of business related examinations, incharging Accounting, Management, Marketing and Information Technology. Apart from CIMA, ABS had also excelled in providing quality tuition for a wide range of educational examinations including the Charted Institute of Marketing, UK, the Institute of Charted Secretaries and Administrators, UK, the British Computer Society,the Association of Bookkeepers UK, the Association of Accounting Technical (SL), Certified Management Accountants of SL and the Bachelors Degree in IT of the University of Colombo. (CM) |
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