Humility and hard work is my secret- Best Chartered Accountant

Overall Best Student and Winner of the President’s Special Award at the 18th graduation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG), Wisdom Kwame Kpano, has revealed that humility, hard work and integrity are the secrets to his academic achievement.

Wisdom also emerged the Overall Best candidate for Advanced Financial Management and Overall Best candidate for Financial Management at the ceremony held over the weekend.

The 23-year old who was an intern at Adom FM for a couple of months told Adom News that he had problems while pursuing Accounting at the Tema Secondary School where he has senior high school education so he decided to abandon the course after school.

However, his father pressured him to pursue the course despite knowing that he had a dislike for the course and at that time he felt his father was pushing him by imposing on accounting on him.

Wisdom said that some few months before he wrote the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, he made up his mind to grab the bull by the horns and treat his exams especially the Accounting course with all the seriousness it deserved and that was the turning point of his life.

He got aggregate 8 and gained admission to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to study Bachelor of Commerce (B Comm), a most sought after programme.

While at UCC, Wisdom did not rest on his oars and attained First Class Honours; he is now doing his national service at the University where he is a Teaching Assistant at the B Comm Department.

He disclosed that upon enrolment at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana, he realized that soaring high in Accounting was achievable and developed his passion for the subject and the result is his being crowned the overall best students.

When asked what his next move will be after receiving such an honour, Wisdom said further his education and become a lecturer. “It has always been my dream to enter the teaching profession and I believe it will be prudent for me to pursue my vision,” he said.

Wisdom expressed his profound gratitude to Adom FM and to the Multimedia Group Limited for its immense contribution in shaping his corporate skills acknowledging that their support spurred him on to win laurels.

He stated that he learnt how to be a team player during his internship with Multimedia and built good human relations with his colleagues and bosses.

Story: Kwaku Adu Kumi/Adom News/Ghana