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Newcastle Business School Graduate Scores First Place
Thursday April 16th, 2009
A Newcastle Business School Accounting graduate has beaten more than 700 students from across England and Wales to win a top accountancy prize.
Rebecca Tweedie, who trained at Newcastle Business School, has been awarded the Little Prize by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
The prize is presented to the student who achieves the highest marks in the taxation module of the ICAEW's ACA accountancy qualification.
Rebecca now works as an assistant auditor in the Newcastle office of the National Audit Office auditing the financial accounts of the Department for Work and Pensions.
She said “Working for the NAO has given me the opportunity to undertake challenging, practical work on issues at the heart of Government, while at the same time receiving the support and training I needed to get through my exams.”
Rebecca Tweedie graduated BA (Hons) Accounting from Newcastle Business School in 2007. As a student at Newcastle Business School she was awarded the Chartered Institute of Taxation Prize for Taxation on the final year of her BA (Hons) Accounting course and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Prize for the best student in her second year.
Donald Halliday, Programme Director at Newcastle Business School said: "All of us here would like to add our warmest congratulations to Rebecca on an outstanding achievement.
“The ICAEW qualification is a prestigious one, and the accountancy profession recruits from the best of graduate talent each year. The National Audit Office is a major employer and a great supporter of the work we do here at Newcastle Business School. This is wonderful news for all of us in the North East.”
The Little Prize was set up in 1960 in memory of Leo T. Little, who was editor of Accountancy magazine for over 20 years.
Wendy Kenway-Smith, Assistant Auditor General of the NAO and head of National Audit Office's Newcastle Office, said “Beating over 700 graduates to such a prestigious, national prize is a fantastic achievement by Rebecca
“Her success demonstrates the excellent career prospects that the National Audit Office offers to graduates in the North East.”
Jim Summers, President of the Northern Society of Chartered Accountants, congratulated Rebecca and added “The NAO is the largest trainer of ACA students other than accountancy firms, which demonstrates the flexibility of the qualification and its relevance to both the public and private sectors.”
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