INTRODUCTION
SKANS, School of Accountancy (SKANS) is a leading institute in providing high level professional accountancy education in Pakistan. It is a registered tuition provider for CAT, ACCA, CA and CIMA courses from the concerned UK and Pakistan accountancy bodies. It has a network of 11 campuses in Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Multan, and Gujranwala; with the largest faculty and staff members than any other accountancy institute in Pakistan.

SKANS has always showed good result and has successful track record, hence created credibility among students and other accounting bodies in Pakistan and UK.

HISTORY
Initially, the management decided to offer free coaching classes to ICAP (Pakistan) students to get a firm hold as tuition providers. The year 1995 saw the inception of the first campus of SKANS School of Accountancy, Gulberg Campus Lahore. SKANS, School of Accountancy (SKANS) started in Lahore in 1991, with a single setup and student base of a few hundred. Over the years it has grown to a nation wide network of quality professional education and training centres. Today it has earned the approval of leading accountancy bodies like ICAP (Pakistan), ACCA (UK) and ISACA (USA) as a tuition provider to the students enrolled in their respective programmes. Currently it has numerous centres in Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sialkot and Multan as well. Its excellence over the period of time has proven to be a benchmark in professional accountancy education.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Keeping pace with the ever evolving society, demands a lot from an educational institution. The challenges in times ahead would be even greater. SKANS understands its responsibility to equip the students with the requisite traits to successfully manage the future challenges of personal and professional life.
SKANS’ aim has always been to provide high standard business education and guidance. Its undaunted efforts were promptly recognized by the leading Professional Accountancy Institutions of the world. Today it has earned the approval of leading accountancy bodies like ICAP (Pakistan), ACCA (UK) and ISACA (USA) as a tuition provider to the students enrolled in their respective programmes. SKANS Tariq Block, New Garden Town (ACCA) campus has “PLATINUM” Status Approved Learning Partner of ACCA; while Shershah Block, New Garden Town (CAT) campus has “GOLD” Status. Islamabad ACCA Campus is on track to achieve Gold Status hopefully by September 09.

With constant reviews, assessments and monitoring, all aspects of the academic and practical learning process resulted into achieving the desired standards and quality. All study programmes are structured with a student centred approach to make the students to actively participate in their education process and not to be passive receivers of instructions.

Particular attention is paid in improving the personal effectiveness of each student through presentation skills and computer courses. This leads to building confidence in the students.
COURSES OFFERED
CAT (Certified Accountant Technician-UK)
ACCA (Certified Chartered Accountant-UK)
CIMA (Cost and Management Accountant-UK)
CA (Chartered Accountant-Pakistan)

MISSION AND OBJECTIVE
• To be the leading business school in the field of accountancy
• To cater to the training and development needs of the students and professionals in Accountancy field. We achieve it by focusing on “Complete Student Satisfaction”, “Value for Money Services” and “Progressive and Proactive Learning”.
• To provide high quality and precise business studies programmes which are aligned with modern business management in Pakistan as well as worldwide.
• To develop students to become successful business managers
• To assure professional excellence through the highest standard of education, competence, objectivity and ethical conduct.
• To foster good relations with the accounting industry and commerce in the country.
• To conduct high quality professional development programs for the business community and executives.
• To maintain and abide by the rules and regulations of all professional bodies and institutions which have accorded approval to SKANS for conducting their academic programs.
• To groom the students with interpersonal and communication skills by taking personality building measures like open forum, presentations and debates.

QUALITY MEASUREMENT
SKANS has an independent quality assurance department which ensures the quality of the education, teaching, management and student performance. Following are the typical qualitative methods that are used to measure the quality among other qualitative methods and observations.

1) Submission of Lecture plan by every Teacher
This important step has been taken by SKANS to regulate the deliverance of the course contents on day to day basis, to ensure that the course is completed in time and the lectures are delivered sequentially to the students. The students are allowed to have the copy of the Lecture Plan, so that the students are encouraged to do some pre lecture study at home for better understanding of the next day lecture.

2) Submission of 15 days Pro forma

This pro-forma has three Main Heads, namely
A) Participation of the student in the class.
B) Attitude of the student in the class.
C) Attendance of the student in the class
Each Main Head has further been divided in to three Sub Heads namely
A) Good
B) Satisfactory
C) Un satisfactory

If there is unsatisfactory Participation, Attitude or Attendance of the individual student, it becomes a challenge for the Teacher, Coordinator and the Director to bring up the concerned student towards satisfactory and good position during the session. The report of the teachers on this Pro-forma activates the coordinators for remedial action which initially results in individual counselling or in extreme case report to the parents on special letters prepared for the purpose. This pro-forma if provided by the teachers regularly after 15 days, gives a clear picture of the performance/progress of the student in the class, at any particular time.
3) Conduct of Tests and Reports to the Parents
It is made mandatory for all the teachers to conduct scheduled and unscheduled tests under quality measurement scheme. Regular schedules for tests are prepared before the start of the session and handed over to the teachers concerned. The results of the tests so received back from the teachers are then sent to the parents at intervals.
4) Home Assignments
As per the requirement of ACCA, we have started giving home assignments to the students at least once in two months. The assignment has to be prepared by the student at home within a specific period, say one week, as per the direction of the teacher. The assignments are evaluated, marked and discussed with the students in the class for better understanding. Thus SKANS strives to make students fruitfully busy at their homes as well.

RESULT
SKANS has always been on higher percentage for its ACCA in papers result than the Global average. And for some of the papers it has got 100 percent result.

FACULTY AND STAFF
SKANS has the largest number of permanent faculty and management staff than any other accountancy institute in Punjab. The staff is highly qualified, professional and capable and is selected on the basis of quality measurement process to assess the employee’s qualification, presentation and communication skills, attitude and potential etc.

FOREIGN COLLABORATION
1. LCA
(London College of Accountancy)
Platinum Status
2. LSBF
(London School of Business and Finance)
Gold Status

VALUE ADDED FEATURES
• Sensitivity to the welfare of students
• World-class quality education now at affordable price
• Flexible timing (morning, afternoon, evening)
• Merit and need based scholarships for bright and deserving students
• Co-Curricular Activities (Debating, Football, Cricket)
• Latest Audio Visual teaching technology
• Computer lab
• Library

OUR CAMPUSES
ACCA Campus Islamabad
3rd Floor, AA Plaza, Blue Area, Islamabad Pakistan

+92 (051) 2803128, 2803129
accainfo.isb@skans.pk

CAT Campus Islamabad
House # 68, Nazim uddin Road, F7/4, Islamabad, Pakistan.

+92 (051) 2656046, 2656060
catinfo.isb@skans.pk

CA/CIMA Campus Islamabad
14K, Firdous Plaza, Ayub Market, F-8 Markaz, Islamabad, Pakistan

+92 (051)-2287269, 051-2287270, 051-2287271
cainfo.isb@skans.pk
cimainfo.isb@skans.pk

Rawalpindi Campus
House # 113-C, Finance (Saadi) Road, Sadar, Rawalpindi
051 5120438, 5120439
info.rwp@skans.pk

Lahore Campus

CA Campus
3-C-1, Gulberg III, Lahore Pakistan.
+92 (042) 575 8510 / 550 560
info.lhr.1@skans.edu.pk

CAT/CIMA Campus
33 Shersha Block, New Garden Town, Lahore Pakistan
+92 (042) 5844311-14
info.lhr.3@skans.edu.pk

ACCA Campus
1, Tariq Block, New Garden Town, Lahore Pakistan
+92 (042)591 4701- 08
info.lhr.2@skans.edu.pk

Sialkot Campus
Commissioner Road, Opposite Allama Iqbal Hospital, Sialkot Pakistan
+92 (052) 4590887, 4602244
info.skt@skans.edu.pk

Faisalabad Campus
P-2/2 Lyal Pur Cold Store, Soosan Road Madina Town, Faisalabad Pakistan
+92 (041) 873 8523 (041) 8726604
info.fsd@skans.edu.pk

Multan Campus
9 Officers Colony, Multan, Pakistan
+92 (0) 61 6510581
info.mtn@skans.edu.pk

Gujranwala Campus
Opposite Income Tax Complex GT Road, Gujranwala, Pakistan
+92 (055) 3892601 3892602
skans_grw@hotmail.com

Islamabad, Pakistan