Sixteen programmes across CFO excellence, tax and regulatory compliance, audit and financial reporting, governance, ESG and strategy — designed and delivered by practising professionals, built on the firm's own IFRS handbook, nine-regulator compliance calendar and CFO Playbook.
Outliers Academy · Rafiu Olawuyi FCA · Date being finalised for upcoming intakes
16 programmes
End-to-end mastery of the modern CFO mandate — financial strategy, capital allocation, board reporting and stakeholder communication.
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Cash, liquidity, funding and FX risk management, built for Nigeria's monetary and regulatory environment.
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Reading interest rates, inflation, FX and GDP data as direct inputs to pricing, budgeting and investment decisions.
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A practical roadmap for modernising the finance function — systems, controls, close cycles and reporting cadence.
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Applying AI safely and productively to forecasting, reporting and decision support, without ceding financial judgement.
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Hands-on filing mechanics across CIT, VAT, WHT, PAYE and the Development Levy, with real computation walkthroughs.
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Working command of CAC, CBN, SEC, NDPC, FRC and PenCom filing cycles, mapped to Outliers' compliance calendar.
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Audit-ready payroll — pension, ITF and NHF deductions, plus expatriate payroll treatment.
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A disciplined year-end close and IFRS-compliant reporting cycle, end to end.
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Standard-by-standard command of IFRS recognition, measurement and disclosure — including the incoming IFRS 18 presentation regime — anchored to Outliers' IFRS handbook.
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COSO and Three-Lines-aligned control design, testing and audit-readiness documentation.
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NCCG-aligned board support — charters, minutes, statutory registers and governance reporting.
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Board evaluation, succession planning and effective board decision-making.
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Materiality assessment through to ISSB, GRI and IFRS S1/S2-aligned sustainability disclosure.
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Turning strategic plans into executable roadmaps, built on Outliers' Business Strategy Execution Handbook methodology.
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Board-ready Power BI dashboards and forecasting models, built directly from the ledger.
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Programmes are designed and delivered by practising professionals from the firm, not career trainers. Full profiles are published on the leadership page.
HND, B.Sc., FCA, ACTI, MDataSci, PGDSBA
Founder & Lead Consultant
Rafiu Olawuyi, FCA is a senior finance, governance and business advisory professional with over 23 years of professional and executive experience spanning corporate finance, investment banking, financial management, corporate governance, risk management, internal controls, regulatory compliance, business strategy and data-driven decision support.
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Director, Outliers Academy & Professional Development
Eyo Eyo Odiong is an accomplished finance, taxation, regulatory compliance and organisational development professional with over 20 years of multidisciplinary experience across financial management, taxation, risk and compliance, corporate governance, people development and business advisory.
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Read the firm's published work before you commit to anything. These are the same materials the programmes are built on.
Standard-by-standard IFRS guidance written for Nigerian practitioners — the same material our reporting programmes are built on.
Open the knowledge centreThe firm's weekly briefing on finance, tax, regulation and governance in Nigeria. Free to read, archived in full.
Read the latest editionChecklists, calculators, frameworks and templates published by the firm and used inside the programmes.
Browse the libraryPractitioner handbooks authored by the Academy principal, including the Financial Reporting & Year-End Close Toolkit.
See the publicationsCohort dates and investment for the next intakes are being finalised. Pick the programme you care about and we will contact you the moment it is scheduled — no obligation, and nothing else sent unless you ask for it.
Facilitator-led cohorts
Structured, weekly modules delivered live to open cohorts, with peer discussion and case work.
Corporate & in-house programmes
Bespoke curricula delivered privately for one organisation, drawn from any track.
1–3 day intensives
Compressed, practical workshops for a specific deadline — a filing window, a close, an audit.
Self-paced online
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