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MEMBER SURVEY

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We want to know what’s important to you, what you value about your AIA membership and how we can improve the services we offer.

Complete our membership survey today and you could win a year’s membership just for taking part. One member will be selected from all valid completed surveys within seven days of the survey closing on 30 June 2021.

The survey will take approximately five minutes to complete and is available at: forms.office.com/r/2X0FgWcuh9. Members have also been emailed a link to the survey.

AIA NEWS

AGM

AIA Annual General Meeting 2021

The Association of International Accountants (AIA) has held its 89th Annual General Meeting. In light of the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions on social gatherings, the AGM was held, for the second year, as a virtual event with members given the opportunity to use online voting.

All the resolutions of the AGM were passed and the following members were re-elected to Council: Philip Ford, Seth Ganu, George Josephakis and Gloria Murray, who reflect the AIA’s international form and represent members from the UK, Ghana and Greece. Following the previous update to AIA’s Constitution in November 2019, a number of amendments and revisions resulting from regulatory requirements, best practice and legislative updates were also agreed at the AGM. 2020 was a year like no other. The Covid-19 pandemic created a global health and economic crisis which presented colossal challenges. Governments were forced to implement social distancing measures causing widespread disruption and businesses throughout the world were required to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Like other organisations, AIA felt the impact acutely and our response was crucial not only to ensure the continuity of service to our members and students, but also to deliver a longer-term plan that continued to meet our strategic objectives. Despite these obstacles, AIA has come through the period stronger and more resilient than before. AIA President Shahram Moallemi said: “I remain confident that despite everything that Covid-19 has challenged us with, we

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remain well placed to adapt and grow as an organisation. This is largely possible because our members and students continue to support us, our partners and branches have advocated on our behalf and our staff have worked tirelessly on a programme of work that has seen many changes throughout our global operations. It is down to our collective hard work that we have been successful, and I look forward to working together as we build on our successes in the future.”

SOCIAL MEDIA

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ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM

AIA launches new online learning platform

In conjunction with the launch of the new AIA professional qualification, AIA will launch a new online learning platform to boost learning and development opportunities for those wishing to study accountancy.

AIA Achieve Academy is a dedicated resource for all AIA students, providing them with a hub of interactive learning resources. Available worldwide, the platform has been designed to ensure users have the support and learning opportunities available to suit their learning preferences and incorporates a range of effective and proven learning tools. This new eLearning platform provides all the support and materials students opting for self-study require to be successful in the exams.

AIA Achieve Academy has been designed to make learning and development easier and more accessible for members to complete their studies at a convenient time for them, allowing users to choose which resources they would like to complete, at their own pace and in their own surroundings.

AIA Achieve Academy is a fully integrated online learning platform which provides students with a structured programme of study for all papers within the AIA professional qualification. The programme includes: ● recorded lectures, structured in line

with the qualification for optimum results; ● AIA Learning and Practice

Workbooks for each paper; ● AIA text books and recommended reading; ● practice questions; ● tutor feedback; ● graded check-point tests; ● live topic workshops; and ● mock exams with performance feedback.

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