New!
Opportunity for ICFE candidates to attend free of charge sample pre-testing as part of their preparation for the ICFE exam. The pre-tesing is suitable for people with upper-intermediate or advanced level of general English.

	Pre-testing dates Sunday, 20 January 2008                          Sunday, 24 February 2008            Sunday, 23 March 2008 We offer 20 places for each date. The registration is on a first come, first served basis until the places are filled up.

If you wish to receive a real test experience and reliable assessment of your legal English language knowledge, please send the following details to exams@britishcouncil.bg:
       Name
       Contact details (address, tel/mobile, e-mail)
       Pre-testing date (and a second choice, in case the first date is not available)
       Level of English (upper-intermediate, advanced, etc.)
We will contact you to confirm the time and place of the pre-test.

If you are a finance professional or an accounting student seeking employment, Cambridge ICFE can be used to validate and improve your financial English language skills.
Cambridge ICFE is also intended to help employers in the international finance arena with hiring and training of personnel, and to assist finance faculties and course providers with selection, placement and graduation of students.

What is Cambridge ICFE?

• an exam based on realistic texts, topics and tasks found in the daily working life of those employed in accounting and finance role
• produced and assessed in collaboration with ACCA - the largest and fastest-growing international accountancy body
• an advanced examination (set at levels B2 and C1 of the Common European Framework) which assesses language skills in a financial context

The aims of Cambridge ICFE:

• to assess candidates’ ability to operate in English in an international finance environment
• to allow candidates to demonstrate to employers their ability to communicate in English with clients
• to allow candidates to demonstrate to educational and training institutions their ability to follow a course of study in finance and accounting where significant portion of the instruction is in English
• to have positive and beneficial impact on the content and delivery of English language training courses for finance and accounting professionals
• to provide an examination to do this which is fair to all candidates and which is delivered to international standards
• to allow test users to compare candidates’ results with other qualifications which are linked to the CEFR

For more information see www.financialenglish.org.