The Cen­tral Bank has be­come the most re­cent ad­di­tion to the As­so­ci­a­tion of Char­tered Cer­ti­fied Ac­coun­tants' (AC­CA) ap­proved em­ploy­er pro­gramme. The Cen­tral Bank has proven that its learn­ing and de­vel­op­ment sys­tems meet glob­al best prac­tice, and that it sup­ports and pro­vides for the con­tin­u­ing pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment needs of its staff, the AC­CA said in a state­ment. "The Cen­tral Bank will now gain ac­cess to spe­cialised ser­vices and knowl­edge through AC­CA's var­i­ous prod­ucts, specif­i­cal­ly cus­tomised for ap­proved em­ploy­ers," the AC­CA said.

He­len Brand, AC­CA chief ex­ec­u­tive, who was al­so in T&T to cel­e­brate 10 years since the es­tab­lish­ment of a Caribbean of­fice, paid a cour­tesy vis­it to Gov­er­nor Ewart Williams. Brand pre­sent­ed him with its ap­proved em­ploy­er cer­tifi­cate. "This is a ma­jor achieve­ment of which the Cen­tral Bank can be proud, since it is a clear in­di­ca­tion that the qual­i­ty and quan­ti­ty of pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment op­por­tu­ni­ties af­ford­ed to staff are on par with glob­al best prac­tice," Brand said in the state­ment. In his re­ply, Williams said: "We are very pleased to re­ceive this recog­ni­tion. At the Cen­tral Bank, we be­lieve in em­pow­er­ing our staff to pur­sue their in­di­vid­ual ca­reer de­vel­op­ment paths.

"As a re­sult, our em­ploy­ees are high­ly mo­ti­vat­ed, de­ter­mined to suc­ceed, and com­mit­ted to con­tin­u­ous learn­ing and ex­cel­lence. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 26 mem­bers of our cur­rent work­force are AC­CA mem­bers, af­fil­i­ates or stu­dents." The AC­CA ap­proved em­ploy­er pro­gramme can be used to com­pare and cer­ti­fy the train­ing poli­cies and pro­ce­dures of or­gan­i­sa­tions against AC­CA's glob­al best prac­tice stan­dards, pro­vid­ing in­de­pen­dent as­sur­ance for their learn­ing sys­tems. AC­CA's Ap­proved Em­ploy­er pro­gramme con­tin­ues to grow and now has 8,500 em­ploy­ers reg­is­tered world­wide, the state­ment read.