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THE NEW SYNERGY SPECIALISTS (TNSS)STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PRESENTATION
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INTRODUCTION

Overview

BusinessOperations

Strategy

The New Synergy Specialists (TNSS) Limited is a Financial Consultancy
and Corporate Training firm providing top-notch financial training andadvisory to individuals, firms and organizations.

TNSS provides a fusion of vibrant, interactive and tailored learning
solutions geared towards ensuring students’ examination success acrossall levels of the ACCA qualification and continuous development forprofessionals.

We are a team of passionate, qualified and highly-experienced tutors
operating from a world class facility; delivering an unforgettable learning
experience.
With TNSS, when students enter to learn;
they leave with a lot of achievements.

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WHO WE AREOURVISIONOURMISSIONOURINSTITUTIONOUREXPERIENCE

To become the service
provider of choice forprofessional and corporate
learning solutions; adding
value to our clients.

We provide top-notchlearning and businesssolutions to individuals andorganizations delivered
through experience, passion
and innovation.

Finance
Professional Refinery.

Combined total of over 80
years’ experience

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WHY TNSSEXAM FOCUS

STRUCTURED TIME TABLEPASS RATETUTORS AVAILABILITY

Courses @ TNSS cover thekey syllabus areas that are
examined and explain how
they will appear in the examand how to tackle them.

The timetable and course
are flexible to cater for thetight commitment andactivities of our students

We have consistently beat
the Global Pass Rate in over
75% of papers of ourregistered students from
our initial examination dietsession in September 2015.

TNSS employs a team ofdevoted and dedicatedtutors able to answer any
questions you may have,within 24 hours on working
days..

PAPERS OFFEREDCONSISTENCY OF APPROACHINFRASTRUCTURE

We are the only tuition
center that prepare
students for all 16 ACCA
Papers and Diploma inInternational Financial
Reporting (DipIFR)

Our approach to tutor training,material preparation and course
presentation means that you will
get a consistent "message"
regardless of the mixture of course
types chosen or center you attend.

Excellent Infrastructural
facilities.

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THE NEW SYNERGY SPECIALIST
1

Our Beginning

Started in 2002 as the first ever ACCA
tuition house in Nigeria
Originally called SWOT Associates
Founded Synergy Professional in 2006
Increased growth resulting in loss of focus
Ivy league exodus in 20133Our Substainability
Track

ACCA Gold Approved Learning Partner by2016
On course with achieving Platinum status as
ACCA Platinum Approved Learning Partnerby third year anniversary
Commencing Continuous Professional
Development (CPD)2

Our Kick Off Point

Re-established as TNSS in August 2015
New focus of commitment and Passion
Creating World-class with local resource
because Nigerian students deserve thebestOffered 4 weeks free tutoring & Question
Based Revision sessions
September 2015 diet partnering withACCA

3

Our Achievements

70% pass rate for all diet papers
Full fledged tutoring in September 2015
Approved ACCA Learning partner byDecember 2015
Student Prize winners - 2nd Best Global,
Best in Africa
Lecturer base of over 40 persons across all
subjects

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From August 2015 to October 2018, TNSS has invested about N230 Million (almost £500,000) in thedelivery of world class ACCA tuition and promotional activities as shown in the table below

Details

NGN

GPB

Facility Use

45,000,000.00

100,000.00

Facilitators’ Fees

40,500,000.00

93,114.75

Other Administration Fees

42,898,937.50

107,865.37

Events – Tertiary Institutions

1,400,000.00

3,278.69

Total Assets

31,059,440.00

69,047.34

Miscellaneous

14,000,000.00

32,786.89

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OUR PROGRAMMESACCA Tuition
TNSS offers weekday & weekend tuition programme,
which are flexible andstructured to enable ourstudents, meet the demandsof their work, study and othercommitments.

Oxford Brookes
We provide Oxford Brookes
project mentorship for ourstudents who will like to takeadvantage of a BSc in Applied
Accounting from Oxford
Brookes University, This
service is free of charge for ALL
our students.

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ACCA

University of London
We serve as a teaching andmentorship center for theuniversity of London, students
who are interested in having
the MSc in Professional
Accountancy will be tutored
and supported at TNSSCPD Trainings
We have introduced a newprogram for members of theassociation towards meeting
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OUR PARTNERSHIP
Corporate Partnerships

Tertiary Institutions Partnerships

Foreign Institution Partnership

Price Waterhouse Coopers

Babcock University

University of London

Ernst & YoungKPMGElizade University

Charted Quest InstituteDeloitte

Covenant University

South Africa

Lagos state Government

Caleb University

Ojike & Partners
Dafinone

Mazars & Co
Sanofi Aventis
SageFate Foundation

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PARTNERSHIP

Marketing Plans
We plan to maximize this partnership by working closely with the ACCA Nigeria, our foremost goal is to have a goodnumber of student enrolled and prepared to take up the qualification. It will enrich our brand reputation to have students
tutored by TNSS at the next graduation ceremony, we will require the full support of ACCA in the following area;
Data driven
mailWe will require ACCA support to help push out strategic email communications to all her students,
affiliates members and employers with this we can enter into strategic partnerships

TNSS Alumni

We will launch the TNSS Alumni platform to enable us connect will all past students of the institution,and share newsletters with them on the benefit of the UoL qualification

Web PaidCampaigns

We will generate video to showcase TNSS, the content will be shared on our web page, and social
media and other identified platforms, we will require the financial support of ACCA to promote this on
strategic platforms such as goggle

Engagements
activities

We also need funds to enable us organize seminars ,symposium, and events geared towards
attracting students

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A
SKANS PARTNERSHIP

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PARTNERSHIP WITH LAGOS STATE
GOVERNMENT ON IPSAS QUALIFICATION

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OUR SUCCESS CHART

EXAM UPTAKEGLOBAL PASS RATEOUR PASS RATE

120%100%80%60%
40%20%0%
APPLIED SKILLS

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OUR TESTIMONIAL

Onome Akpomudia

Busola Sogbolu

Roselyn Efemelu

Top ACCA Affiliate in Nigeria December 2017/2018
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STRATEGIC BUSINESS LEADER

What worked for Nigerian Students
With the introduction of the SBL paper, we realigned our Faculty towards providing the right tutoring for thepaper, with 6 dedicated lecturers. We also adopted a different teaching approach to help our students
better prepare for the exam.
The tutoring style includes – Role plays, student presentation, Group assessment centre discussions andNews review sessions towards understanding case study scenarios. As seen from the result below our thisstyle of teaching worked.
Being a new exam we were quite impressed with our students overall performance.,

8 students entered for the SBR exams and 4 passed giving 50% pass rate against global 45%
4 students entered for the SBL exams and 3 passed giving 75% pass rate against global 47%

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STRATEGIC BUSINESS LEADER

Learning from last Diet
In order for our teaching strategies to be truly be effective , we will need students to truly embrace it,
We will intensify our approach towards a more engaging tutoring style as we look forward to recording a
100% pass rate in December diet exam.
Our classes will start by focusing more on time management and how to answer case study questions.

We will adopt a blended learning approach to better prepare our students for December diet exam, with this
we hope to record 100% pass rate.

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STRATEGIC BUSINESS LEADEROur experience & expectations
As a flow from the success experience last diet our expectation is that ACCA will assist us in marketing, which
will invariable position us for visibility. We would appreciate the following support;
 Newsletter/Emails/Messaging
 Print/Publications strategy

 Employers communication
 Blog/Ad campaign

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UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PARTNERSHIP

Enrolment/Admission
supportFlexible learning
options

Student advise
centerTNSS has been approved as the exclusive teaching institution for the MSc in professional Accountancy fromUniversity of London. We now have the responsibility of providing tuition support to ACCA students inNigeria who are interested in earning this internationally recognized degree, by providing;• Face to face study•

Online study•

Blended learning

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FUTURE OPPURTUNITIESStudents• Increase number of student ACCA across Nigeria• Increase number collaborations and partnerships across Nigeria• Increase examination pass rate for all papers• Signpost skilled ACCA members to cover the increasing human capital gaps
across the global economy.
Members• Organize outdoor training for corporate organizations on new IFRS exposuresand new developments in the industry• Organize quarterly employability and professional networking seminars

Trainings••••

To be one-stop-shop for capacity building
Build an end-to-end School
Facilitate Internship placement for students
Organize training activities

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FUTURE OPPURTUNITIESExaminers••••FundingExpansion

Limited access to course examiner for an interactive sessions on best practices andguidance on examination requirements
Difficulty in collaborating with ACCA material managers locally•

Limited number of computers in our CBE room to carry out CBT mock exams
Lack of funds to pay for some partnership franchise which would facilitate expansion
and brand reputation
Limited resources to oraganise engagement activities geared towards students
recruitment
Shortage of funds to promote marketing activities••

Low level of global support towards local collaborations with tertiary institutions
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OUR STRATEGY - 2018

Facilitate entering into more agreements with tertiary institutions
Strengthen relationships with the Big Fours
Build more local and foreign collaborations/partnerships with tertiary institution, employers andgovernment bodies
Use data driven marketing to promote recruitment and UoL qualification with support fromACCA
Engage with admission agencies to signpost students interested in foreign qualifications

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CBE CENTRE COSTING
We are looking at creating a 100 seater CBE Center at an estimated cost of N43million – GBP 106,000
Details

CBE Cost Current NGN

CBE Cost Current GBP

CBE Cost Future NGNCBE Cost Future - GBP

Furniture

175,000

438

7,000,000

17,500

Network Systems

244,500

611

5,000,000

12,500Desktop Systems

275,000

688

20,000,000

50,000Server520,000

1,300

10,000,000

25,000CBE Center Fees

600,000

1,500

600,000

1,500

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CBE CENTRE COSTING

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