As an accounting firm leader, you want your team members to have the right knowledge and skills for increasingly complex tasks.
When we launched our enhanced professional development plans for accountants under TOA Learning Pathways this year, we wanted to provide each team member with a career pathway of up to 10 years.
This way, our clients are assured that their offshore accountants and bookkeepers will stay up to date while accounting industry regulations and tech tools change. TOA Learning pathways provides:
1. Targeted Level and Role Training
Accounting career development plans are uniquely tailored. Each role is structured into four levels, with designated courses and resources for advancement.
2. Advancement Opportunities
TOA Global team members earn higher qualifications by advancing through their customised accounting career paths, reviewed regularly during performance evaluations.
3. Enhanced Value with Growth
With each level achieved, team members develop targeted skills that increase their effectiveness and provide greater value to our clients’ firms.
4. Long-Term Operational Excellence
Over time, the expertise of such highly trained team members leads to superior work quality and enhanced efficiency, enabling non-core tasks to run on autopilot.
Our learning and development program ensures that career advancement translates into higher quality work, streamlining firm growth and significantly improving employee retention.
TOA Learning Pathways gives our clients’ teams access to accounting training courses designed by the Ab2 Institute of Accounting. These pathways have been honed over a decade of working with firms in Canada and the United States and are delivered by industry leaders.
As we’re always assessing industry needs and changes, from July this year, for instance, we rolled out updated training modules for our clients’ team members in what we classify as senior or Level B roles. Our accountants and bookkeepers typically reach Level B in their fourth or fifth year with TOA Global.
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- Makes accounting teams more effective: Team members gain specialized skills and learn about new tools and regulations.
- Increases our employees’ job satisfaction: They’ll see the training as proof that their clients and the company are committed to and consistently investing in their growth.
- Helps growing firms retain experienced talent: Clear career paths and growth opportunities encourage strong performers to stay and grow with a firm.
- Improves the level of service that clients receive.
- Makes accountants and their firms more adaptable: And that’s a necessary quality in a changing profession.
Eight out of every 10 organizations intend to invest in learning and training on the job to keep their workforce strategies effective in 2023-2027. The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report for 2023 also pointed out that an almost equal number—80% of respondents—plan to automate their processes faster.
A quarter of respondents said they would “outsource significant areas of work.”
Future of Jobs
Workforce strategies, 2023-2027
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2023
TOA Global goes beyond what most accounting outsourcing companies can offer. We provide up to date learning and development that meets each team member where they are, with courses that fit their role and level and help them advance in their careers.
We have more than a decade’s experience in helping 1,190+ international clients find the elite accounting talent they need, plus solid industry partnerships that keep our clients and employees ready for new opportunities as these emerge.
Let’s talk about accounting outsourcing today. We’d love to help you build a high-performing offshore accounting team for your practice.
