MSL Business School students win 12 national awards at ICAG’s 47th Graduation Ceremony

Nine students of MSL Business School have received 12 national awards at the 47th Graduation and Admission Ceremony of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (ICAG), held at the UPSA Auditorium in Accra on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The awards recognise outstanding performances in ICAG’s March 2026 and July 2026 professional examinations. Overall honours Wilfred Kwadwo Kumah was named National Overall Best Graduating Student for the March 2026 sitting, while Miriam Yawa Dzanka received the Overall Best Female Graduating Student award for the July 2026 sitting.

Level and subject awards Theophilus Adjobiakah received three national awards for the July 2026 sitting, emerging as the Overall Best Student in three Level 2 papers: Principles of Taxation, Public Sector Accounting and Finance, and Audit and Assurance. At Level 1, Suzzy Debrah Osei and Andrew Kwabena Panor Asare were jointly named Overall Best Students for the March 2026 sitting.

Suzzy Debrah Osei also received the Overall Best Female Student award at that level. Other award recipients included Ruth Awinebotima Apobisah, who was named Overall Best Student in Financial Management; Betty Sakyi, who received the award for Introduction to Cost and Management Accounting; and Daniel Ankomah, who was recognised as Overall Best Student in Corporate Reporting.

All three awards were for the March 2026 sitting. Jephthah Amponsah-Boadu was named Overall Best Student in Advanced Taxation for the July 2026 sitting. Kumah becomes the fourth MSL Business School student to receive ICAG’s National Overall Best Graduating Student award and the eighth across ICAG and the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana (CITG).

In 2024, MSL Business School students swept the National Overall Best Graduating Student awards across all three ICAG examination sittings, with Abigail Cudjoe winning in March, Godson Nkunu in July and Jesse Blessing Nyarkoh in November. As of the November 7 ceremony, MSL Business School students had accumulated 58 national awards from ICAG and CITG since February 2023.

Several other students of the school also graduated at the ceremony and were admitted to ICAG membership, with some attaining associate membership and others becoming full members. Founder’s remarks Commenting on the achievements, the Founder of MSL Business School, Michael Siaw Larbi, said: “I am deeply proud of Wilfred, Miriam, Theophilus, Suzzy, Andrew, Ruth, Jephthah, Betty and Daniel, and of every MSL student who graduated in Accra on Saturday.

“Results like these belong first to the students and the work they put in. Our part is to set a high standard and give them tools built for the way they are examined; the achievement is theirs. “We are grateful to the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana, for recognising their effort.”