Kaplan Financial

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Kaplan Financial Ltd

Company type	Private
Industry	Education
Founded	1958
Headquarters	Ground Floor, Palace House, 3 Cathedral Street, London, SE1 9DE England
Key people	Peter Houillon, CEO
Parent	Kaplan, Inc.
Website	Kaplan Financial.co.uk

Kaplan Financial Ltd is a British company providing training in accountancy and financial services. It was founded in 1958. Kaplan Financial is part of Kaplan, Inc., a subsidiary of Graham Holdings Company. Kaplan Financial has more than 48,000 students a year, both in the UK and overseas. It offers courses in 28 training centres throughout the UK as well as home study and online learning.

Kaplan Financial prepares students for professional accountancy and tax exams including the AAT, ACA, ACCA, and CIMA, and investment qualifications such as CFA, CAIA, FRM, IAQ,^[specify] IMC and SII. Kaplan Financial also offers a range of postgraduate courses including MBA, MA and MSc, as well as management and personnel qualifications.

History

Kaplan Financial Ltd. Borough High Street Building London.

Kaplan Financial was formerly known as the Financial Training Company, then as FTC Kaplan after its acquisition in February 2003 by Kaplan, Inc., a global provider of education and training services. FTC also produced exam-focussed study materials, test prep and courses for the American Academy of Financial Management, AAT, ACCA and CIMA that were also used widely in other training institutions in the public and private sectors. These materials are now produced by Kaplan Publishing, another company in the Kaplan group.

Acquisitions

Major acquisitions in the last decade include:

2003—UK Accountancy Tuition Centres Ltd (ATC), provider of accountancy and professional training in the UK^[1]
2003—Emile Woolf Colleges Ltd., provider of CIMA and ACCA training^[2]
2003—AT Foulks Lynch Ltd., publisher of accountancy training materials for ACCA, CIMA, AAT and CAT syllabi^[2]
2003—Portman College of Management, a Newcastle-based professional school offering management training programmes^[3]
2008—Hawksmere Limited, a London-based training and conference provider^[4]
2009—West of England Language Services Limited (WELS), an international group of English language schools located in the United States, Australia, and the UK^[5]

Awards

In July 2009 Kaplan Financial was the first ACCA distance learning provider to be awarded Platinum status by the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants). This is the highest status awarded to a tuition provider.^[6]

Knowledge Bank

In November 2012, Kaplan Financial launched the Kaplan Financial Knowledge Bank, a reference site providing free access to accountancy information.^[7]

Training Locations

As of 2018, Kaplan Financial has 23 training centres located up and down the UK as well as Distance Learning, Live Online, OnDemand products. These are:

Birmingham
Bristol
Cambridge,
Cardiff - ICAEW Courses only
Crawley - ICAEW Courses only
Glasgow
Grimsby
Hull
Ipswich
Isle of Man
Leeds
Leicester
Liverpool
London Borough High Street
London Islington
Manchester
Milton Keynes
Newcastle
Norwich
Nottingham
Reading
Sheffield
Southampton

References

^ Kaplan, Inc.'s FTC Acquires U.K. Accountancy Training Company Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, press release, July 1, 2003
^ ^a ^b Kaplan's FTC Acquires ... Emile Woolf Colleges Ltd and AT Foulks Lynch Ltd Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, press release, November 5, 2003
^ Kaplan, Inc's FTC Acquires Portman College of Management Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, press release, November 19, 2003
^ Kaplan Financial acquires Hawksmere Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine, press release, 13 January 2008
^ Kaplan to Acquire West of England Language Services, press release, 6 January 2009
^ Kaplan ACCA Distance Learning, now the only Platinum provider, Kaplan Financial, 2009
^ Get the knowledge, PQ Magazine, 2012