Ghana: Association of Women Accountants Ghana introduces new leaders

The Association of Women Accountants Ghana (AWAG), a group of professional female accountants has sworn in new leaders to steer the affairs of the association for two years.

The newly elected president of the association, Patience Mawushie Dzikunoo stated that her focus as a newly elected leader is to attract more female accountants into their profession.

She revealed that data as of January 2023 had only 1,900 out of 10,000 members of the association being females.

In a way to make accounting more appealing to females, the new leaders will enroll the AWAG mentorship and high school programs in Senior High Schools nationwide.

“Currently we know that many students are going away from business studies, so we intend to go into the schools and encourage them to take the profession so that we increase the numbers,” she said.

Mawushie Dzikunoo again referred to the dwindling interest in the accounting profession to the inconsistencies in the Ghana Banking sector.

“Previously it was prestige to work in the bank but right now they tend to get scared because they do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. The future looks kind of bleak. That’s why a lot of parents are not encouraging their children…is not just the females…both males and females”.

The committee is made up of seven members led by Patience Mawushie Dzikunoo as President, Akua Bonsu-Owu as Vice-President, Diana Commey as the General Secretary, Elizabeth Ohene Bampo as the Financial Secretary, Victoria Nipah as the Public Relations Officer, Frances Enyonam Sosoo as the Welfare Organizer and the immediate past President of AWAG, Elsie Bunyan.

The immediate past president of the association encouraged the newly elected executives to work diligently to promote food governance among Small and Medium Enterprises.

“My charge to the new executives is to work and bring more people into the association so that together we can build our noble institution. Also, we started the SME project, a project that we intend to give back to society using our experiences and our skills and our talents to be able to support them, their audit, etc.”

“So I will charge them to continue to do that to encourage them and show them how to keep their books. It will all help to promote good governance and together we will be able to build our nation Ghana” she concluded.

The Association of Women Accountants Ghana (AWAG) will next year mark its 30th-anniversary celebration.