" ITREALMS: Youngest Nigerian chartered Accountant, Peter Akpan emerges top 10 in CFA exams - ITREALMS

Friday, February 05, 2021

Youngest Nigerian chartered Accountant, Peter Akpan emerges top 10 in CFA exams - ITREALMS

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The youngest-ever Nigerian Chartered Accountant two years ago, Peter Justin Akpan has emerged top in 10 per cent best performing candidates in the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) level 1 programme, reports 
ITREALMS exclusively.
The CFA credential is the professional standard of choice for over 31,000 investment firms worldwide. 

The CFA Programme, ITREALMS gathered, delivers a strong foundation of advanced investment analysis and real-world portfolio management skills to give candidates a significant career advantage.


Akpan who is currently a graduate intern with the Deal Advisory unit of a multinational advisory firm, KPMG Nigeria said the experience so far has been thrilling.

Confirming the latest win to 
ITREALMS in his LinkedIn post, Akpan stated "I've just PASSED Level 1 of the CFA Programme Exams among the top 10% Best Performing Candidates in the globe."

Akpan who is grateful to God for what he described as 'Super Faithful' ITREALMS gathered, emerged the as a Chartered Accountant at the age of 18 in the history of Nigeria.

Growing up, Akpan revealed to ITREALMS that at 15, he graduated from High School as the best commercial student.

And by the age of 16, he got admitted into the University of Calabar and immediately started the rigorous journey of becoming a Chartered Accountant.

A year later, 
ITREALMS gathered that Akpan became an Associate Accounting Technician and bagged two international awards from the Association of Accounting Bodies West Africa.

ITREALMS reports that at 19, he graduated top of his class with a first class Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and got a scholarship from the CFA Institute to write the first level of the exams.

"It can only be God," he declared and stressed that he was strengthen by the ideology of "Believe and Push, Everything is Possible!"

And for him, the "Marathon Continues!"

We wish Peter, born July 22, more success as he remains a Nigerian pride.

Remmy Nweke/DoP

1 comment:

Unknown said...

This is so great and inspiring to me
I am also a commercial student aged 15 and I aspire to finish of this race in flying colours

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