Nigeria's ICAN, ONECCA sign MoU to certify accountants

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Ordre National des Experts Comptables du Cameroun (ONECCA) to help train and certify professional accountants in Cameroon as well as provide technical assistance to the Cameroonian body.

By virtue of the MOU, ICAN would help ONECCA to develop its professional examination and certification programmes, and build capacity for an operational secretariat.

ICAN will assist ONECCA, which currently does not have a professional examination scheme of its own, to acquire technical expertise that will enable it run its own certification examinations in due course.

Under the arrangement, ICAN will initially assist in developing a syllabus for the Cameroonian institute, set the questions and assist in grading answer scripts. It will also groom ONECCA personnel to manage the process on their own.

During the conduct of its own examinations in Cameroon in the interim, ICAN will send its staff invigilators along with the examination papers and return the answer scripts to Nigeria for marking. ONECCA, on its part, will help manage ICAN’s professional examinations in Cameroon.