The President of the Board of Professional Accountants of Trento and Rovereto, Maurizio Postal, and the Rector of the University of Trento, Paolo Collini, signed on 20 May 2015 an agreement to strengthen the synergy between the University of Trento and the labour market.
The agreement implies the joint engagement of the Department of Economics and Management and the local Board of Professional Accountants for the organisation and management of a tailored degree course to prepare participants to become professional accountants and accounting experts.
They shall manage a jointly managed degree course to enhance the quality of offered training; to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge and skills required for a faster and easier access to the labour market; optimize the schedule to facilitate the become professional accountants and accounting expert.
“The agreement signed today”, according to Maurizio Postal, President of the Board of Professional Accountants of Trento and Rovereto, “reintroduces the facilitated access to the profession of professional accountant which is in place since 2012: the simplification of the exam, more specifically the annulation of one of the written tests, for trainees who attended a specific degree course.
This system is also made of the shortening of the professional traineeship from 36 to 18 months, the opportunity to carry out 6 months of traineeship while attending the degree course, the advanced professional training course financed by the Autonomous Province of Trento a managed by the Department of Economics and Management”. Finally Postal adds “The University of Trento is the only university which created a specific degree course, after the signature of the agreement with the Board of Professional Accountants of Triveneto in 2010”.
The Rector, Paolo Collini, underlined that “The agreement belongs to the policies adopted by the University to get closer to the labour market. The employability of graduates is one of the priority objectives of the University. We want to serve our community also developing a better offer of teaching opportunity, to better meet the labour market requirements and the demand of training, updating and specialisation. We want our students to graduate with a sound preparation and important cross-sector skills ready to be used in the labour market. To this end I believe it is fundamental to create better and stronger synergies between the University and the Professional Boards. The agreement we signed today results from the agreement signed by the then Faculty of Economics, in June 2010, with the Professional Boards of Triveneto. Trento was the first university in Italy to create a five-year degree course to increase the employability of young graduates in this field. This agreement is a fruitful example to be spread onto other sectors as well”.
Therefore the Department of Economics and Management activated new degree courses which will guarantee to young graduates the exemption from the first written test of the National test to access the Professional Board (section A for graduates and section B for undergraduates).
Professional traineeships lasting at least 200 hours for undergraduates and 275 for graduates are mandatory.
The University and the Professional Board want to further inform the youngest students, high-school students, about these new degree courses”.