Massive Job Vacancy at ECOWAS

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT AND JOB PROFILES – GENERAL SERVICE STAFF & PROFESSIONAL STAFF ECOWAS Parliament was established by the ECOWAS Revised Treaty of 1993 as one of the Institutions of the Community. The Parliament is the Assembly of the peoples of the Community. The Administrative Secretariat of the Parliament is headed by a Secretary-General, and consists of two Directorates: the Directorate of Administration and Finance, and the Directorate...

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19 Interesting Facts About Bill Gates' $123 Million Mansion

With a net worth of $81.5 billion, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is the richest man in America. It shouldn't be too surprising that one of the wealthiest people in the world also has an insanely extravagant home. It took Gates seven years and $63 million to build his Medina, Washington estate, named Xanadu 2.0 after the fictional home of "Citizen Kane"'s Charles Foster Kane. At 66,000 square feet, the home is absolutely massive, and it's filled...

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How These 3 Top CEO’s Use Social Media To Build Their Brand

When it comes to social media most top executives in companies prefer to remain in the background. In fact, a study from CEO.com showed that 61% of CEOs in the Fortune 500 still have no presence on social media. Of the ones that have a presence most of them only have a LinkedIn account which they use infrequently if at all. Instead, they let their marketing team use the company accounts to share stories and deliver the brand message. However,...

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A Founder-CEO's Secret to Success: First Get Started, Then Get Smarter

Jeff Lawson is the latest guest on the Fortt Knox Podcast: rich ideas, powerful people.   Among the many business lessons Jeff Lawson has learned, there's this: Don't expect to get things done if you wait until you're perfectly prepared.  Lawson is co-founder and CEO of Twilio, a company that makes it easy for apps to contact you. (Ever wonder how you can send a text to your Uber driver in the app, or get one in OpenTable...

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7 Essential Steps to Take When Starting A Business.

Yes, there are thousands of businesses you could start, with more emerging daily thanks to new technology and good old-fashioned ingenuity. Yet despite the vast universe of possibilities, there are a few essential steps you need to take before starting a business, any business. Do your market research: Just because you build it or sell it doesn't necessarily mean anyone will buy it. The first essential step is to research your potential...

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From waiter to CFO

Stefan Payne, Chief Financial Officer at Titan Airways, studied AAT with Gareth John, Director and tutor at First Intuition. Gareth recently met with Stefan and asked him a few questions about how his successful career in finance started. What attracted you to a career in accountancy? I was looking for a career with opportunities, a career that could satisfy my ambitious nature and that paid well too. I chose accountancy as it provides...

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10 reasons why accountancy is a great career

 You've taken the first step and committed to changing your future but might be wondering what will happen after you qualify.  You should feel confident in knowing that you’ve chosen a career that’s in demand with opportunities to work in a variety of roles or become your own boss. Here are just some of the reasons why accountancy is a great career. 1. Employers always need accountants According to a report by recruitment company Robert...

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8 Questions Your Financial Statements Won't Answer

Our CPA firm teaches free training classes to Napa Valley Winery owners and their teams. We just completed a class called Making Sense of Winery Financial Statements in which we asked attendees to review the above (red neck winery case study) financial statements. This was done at the beginning of class, before we gave them any instruction. We asked them two questions: What can you learn from these financial statements? What do you need to know but can't answer from these statements? Based on our decidedly unscientific survey, there is more...

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You may be busy, but you probably aren’t as productive as you think — and you’re definitely working yourself to death

How do we measure professional success? Is it by the location of our office or the size of our paycheck? Is it measured by the dimensions of our home or the speed of our car? Ten years ago, those would have been the most prominent answers; however, today when someone is really pulling out the big guns, when they really want to show you how important they are, they’ll tell you all about their busy day and how they never had a moment to themselves. With the use of modern technology, what we could once accomplish in the average 40-hour work...

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10 Ultimate Guides To Getting Out Of Debt

The Ultimate Guide To Getting Out Of Debt Five years ago, when I was in my mid-30s, I opened my first adult savings account. I was attending a friend’s wedding in India and wanted to make sure I had enough money to go. What I didn’t consider but later realized was that, at that time, I had $6,500 of credit card debt and $18,500 of student loan debt. Looking back, I can see that a more practical person would have said that going to India for...

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Happy Birthday to Me

I remind myself every year on this special day how blessed I am to have been given another year to experience the wonders of this beautiful world! God is good! My birthday is a day I cherish and love. Happy birthday to me!!!!....

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Forbes: When It's Time To Dump Your Career And Pursue Your Passion

Perhaps you have been through aquarter life crisis or maybe you are even in one right now. It’s possible you have questioned your career path and choices, wondering if you should have pursued your passion instead of the route you took. It’s well known that millennials are loyal to their values and morals, as published by the 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey, where 55% of millennials said their personal values or morals had the highest level of influence on decision making at work. Since it’s common for millennials to defer their passion...

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