The Institute of Financial Accountants’ qualifications have been designed to develop 21st century finance professionals.

As a leading specialist institute for accountants and financial managers, the IFA provides finance professionals with the tools and innovative professional qualifications to enable you to understand what makes a business tick – and much more to equip you to work effectively in an SME or accountancy practice.

An IFA qualification can help you achieve all these things by offering you:

• An internationally recognised professional accountancy qualification.
• Practical training in a wide range of finance and accounting topics.
• Guidance to help you understand how businesses succeed.
• Support to enable you to develop your talents and the talents of others.
• Professional accountancy qualifications to open doors to a world of opportunities and careers.
• Effective tools and techniques you can apply in support of small and medium enterprises and accountancy practices.
• Models to help create efficient financial systems and controls.
• Opportunities to attend networking events and conferences with fellow members, students and representatives of other businesses.
• "Life-Long Learning" to help you meet the many technical and technological changes and challenges you will face over your career as a financial accountant.
• Relevant knowledge of the regulations, business practices and international standards (“International Financial Reporting Standards for SMEs”) which apply to the sector.

For more information on IFA qualifications please visit www.ifa.org.uk  or contact Customer Services on: 01732 458 080 or email mail@ifa.org.uk