Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group, Mr Tony Elumelu has begged higher institutions in Nigeria to do more than just create finance graduates and take things a step further by building ready-to-market finance professionals.
He disclosed this at the 2019 Annual Public Lecture of the Department of Banking and Finance, Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo.
The lecture was entitled: “The Future of Finance- Technology At Play.”
His words, “Traditional knowledge of finance is getting stale in today’s business world, and indeed there is a dire need for retooling our skills, if we must remain relevant in tomorrow’s financial world,”
“I am not certain if the fiance and accounting graduates of today are familiar with modern financial softwares packages, including global accounting and financial reporting standards.
“Have they been imbibed with the ready-to-market soft skills like leadership, communication, commercial acumen, flexibility/openness to change and strategic vision.
“If not, I will like to propose an overhaul of the curriculum to accommodate these,”
He added that future’s finance graduates and professionals must know all about business intelligence and cognitive analysis.
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