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Certificate in OHADA Finance and Compliance

Produce accounts that pass audit — and explain them to management.

Entry level
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Award
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Duration
6 months
Actual work
12 h/week
Pace
Compatible with a job
Tuition
4 200 000 GNF in total

A certificate for accountants, controllers and finance managers in post. It covers closing, analysis and internal control under the OHADA framework, with particular emphasis on what actually blocks: year-end entries, balance justification and preparing an audit file.

Learning objectives

  • Run a full year-end close and justify every balance
  • Build an audit file an auditor can pick up unaided
  • Analyse performance and explain it to management without jargon
  • Put in place the internal controls that prevent payment fraud

Curriculum

180 hours · 18 credits

Year 1180 hours

  1. Regulatory framework and actors

    40 hours · 4 credits

    Obligations, supervisory authorities, penalties, international standards

  2. Know your customer and due diligence

    50 hours · 5 credits

    Identification, beneficial owner, politically exposed persons, enhanced due diligence

  3. Detection and suspicious activity reporting

    50 hours · 5 credits

    Typologies, alert scenarios, analysis, drafting and filing the report

  4. Internal framework and control

    40 hours · 4 credits

    Organising the compliance function, procedures, training, second-line control, reporting

Real prerequisite

What follows is assumed and will not be explained again. If most of it is foreign to you, this is not the right entry point — better to know now than at the final assessment.

Keeping or supervising accounts day to day. Debit, credit, balance sheet and income statement are assumed: the certificate starts from the OHADA framework, it does not re-teach double entry.

Entry requirements

  • Open to accounting and finance professionals in post
  • No academic requirement
  • Regular accounting practice, in a company or a firm

Career outcomes

  • Senior accountant
  • Management controller
  • SME finance and administration manager
  • Audit assistant

Skills acquired

  • OHADA framework
  • Year-end close
  • Audit file
  • Financial analysis
  • Internal control

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Certificate in OHADA Finance and Compliance — IHETC