ICASL launches financial English course

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) launched the Cambridge International Certificate in Financial English (ICFE) for the first time in Sri Lanka yesterday.

The course is aimed at aspiring finance and accountancy professionals who require skills to demonstrate that they have first-rate financial English language proficiency, and the ability to communicate confidently and efficiently within the international business community.

To help meet the demand towards helping finance professionals demonstrate that they have the financial English skills they need, the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (English for Speakers of Other Languages) and ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) have combined their areas of expertise to develop ICFE.

The ICASL has launched this innovative financial English course, in its efforts to provide its students at the Institute the best of courses, which will help make them proficient professionals who posses both the technical knowledge and also the capability to speak impeccable English with their counterparts and other seniors in the corporate world.

ICFE is aimed at ICASL students at the Post Strategic level as an optional component in their curriculum.

In considering its importance of this course, and as a value addition, the ICASL which has joined hands with the British Council and the ACCA to introduce ICFE will also reimburse 75 percent of its course fee for the Post Strategic level students on successful completion of this qualification.