Future of SMPs: Business Diversification Through Offering New Services - the World Bank held the Webinar

On April 15, within the frames of the European Union-World Bank joint Financial Inclusion and Accountability Project, the World Bank held an online meeting on ‘Future of SMPs: Business Diversification Through Offering New Services’.

During the Webinar, Participants learned what possible services to offer, including business advisory, and the step-by-step approach to building the capacity to promote, deliver and profit from these new service offerings.  

Paul Thompson, Director, European Federation of Accountants and Auditors for SMEs (EFAA) and a World Bank consultant lead the webinar. He was joined by Aleksandra Zaronina, Head of SME Professional Insights, ACCA and Anastasia Chalkidou, Chair of the Greek Advisory Committee at ACCA, Accounting Director co-founder at Quantum BITS. 

As the content is relevant and useful to SMPs operating across the region, representatives of SMPs from STAREP countries i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine also attended the event.

136 people attended the event. 

The whole webinar series qualifies for unverified CPD.

See the presentation. 

Video recording of the Webinar is uploaded on the Youtube channel of SARAS.

Following Webinars from the series will be announced on the webpage and social media of SARAS.