Cypriot trainee accountant wins top ACCA prize

Vasso Michael, a trainee accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers, won the highest award worldwide for her paper on Advanced Corporate Reporting, in the December 2004 exams for the chartered certified accountant qualification.

ACCA honoured Vasso Michael at a ceremony in London last week, where the association’s Vice President awarded her the prize for “Paper 3.6 winner”. Evgenios Evgeniou, Human Capital partner of the Assurance Services division of PwC also attended the ceremony.

Phidias Pilides, Chief Executive Officer of PwC in Cyprus, said that “the comparative advantage for Cyprus is created by the quality of its people”. Referring to the new trainee accountants he said, “at PwC we have a powerful worldwide network, knowledge and experience which enable us to support the talent, the innovation and the creativity of young people”.

Tassos Televantides, board member in charge of Human Capital of PwC, focused on the significance of continuous training. “The journey for knowledge is endless. Only through this do we get stronger and more confident. The collective knowledge that an organisation possesses, the knowledge of its own people, serves as a valuable asset of its business efforts.”

Vasso Michael spoke about the great challenge that every trainee accountant faces: “to study and work at the same time, following high standards. Through the daily contact with businesses, involvement in real needs of clients, one learns to be practical and find solutions. One learns that what counts is consistency and effectiveness”.