CMA Sri Lanka workshop series on speech craft

The Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka, under the leadership of Professor Lakshman R Watawala, successfully completed the workshop series on speech craft, honing the skills of communication and leadership.

The vision of Prof. Watawala to equip management accountants with the skill of presentation, communication, articulation, negotiation with the intention of preparing professionals with accounting qualifications to be capable of becoming the ‘CEO’AS business leaders, transforming the role of an accountant to a professional leader of any corporate entity.

Pursuing the mission to equip accountants with communication, presentation and leadership skills, CMA Sri Lanka has made it compulsory for all passed finalists, management accountants and students to follow the 10 week speech craft program to be eligible for membership at CMA Sri Lanka.

The programme was subsidized by CMA Sri Lanka for the benefit of students and to enable students to fit-in to the commercial world by implementing International educational standards Boards requirements of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) the global body for the accounting profession. The presence of the IFAC President at the CMA Global Management Accounting Conference and CMA Excellence in Integrated Reporting Awards 2018, as Key Note Speaker, provides recognition of CMA by the Global Accounting Body.

The 7th batch of Speech Crafters established a 100 percent record of graduation with no dropouts and the Final Awards Ceremony meeting was conducted on Saturday, 28th July in a solemn but elegant manner with the participants displaying an amazing transformation delivering speeches on crucial subjects of social, economic and life changing topics.