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Abu-Ghazaleh Receives IFAC’s Intellectual Capital Director
04-May-2016
AMMAN - HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman and founder of the International Society of Certified Accountants (IASCA) received in his office in Amman, the Intellectual Capital Director of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) Ms. Kelly Anerud during her private visit to the Society in Jordan.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh welcomed Ms. Anerud, and pointed out that the Society has recently launched future programs, which would expand the services it provides, where the Society is moving towards the establishment of a regional center for training on international accounting standards in the public sector and provides assistance for its implementation.
He stated that we are constantly striving through our programs to work on the development of services that we offer and issue the qualifications that serve the business sector and the development of the profession on various grounds.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh expressed his appreciation for the International Federation of Accountants for its contribution to the development of the profession and for assisting the professional associations in the world to play their professional role to the fullest, expressing his pride for the period in which he was at the head of the Standards Setters Commission.
From her side "Ms. Anerud" expressed her thanks and appreciation to Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, for the great role played by the Society and by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization in the development of the profession in the Arab world, and she also commended the outstanding work being done by the Society including the translation of professional publications, promoting the awareness about the international standards, encouraging the Arab governments to adopt them and the existing partnership between the Federation and the Society which will further be promoted and developed.
Ms. Anerud also commended the efforts of the Society in making the Jordanian government adopt the application of international accounting standards in the public sector, which makes Jordan the first Arab state to adopt the full application of the standards since 2015.
During the meeting, which was attended by the executive management of the Society, the two sides discussed the existing as well as the future joint projects between the Society and the Federation. Also the issue of translation of professional publications, issued by the International Federation, to the Arabic language was also discussed considering that the Society is the exclusive party mandated by the Federation for the translation of these publications, and its distribution in the Arab world.
The cooperation mechanism in the area of translation by the Society of one of the professional certificates on International Accounting Standards in the Public sector, issued by the International Federation, ,was also researched and studied. The two parties also discussed the translation of the International Education Standards by the Society issued by the Federation; in addition to discussing the activation of the Arab professional organizations’ role in participating in the IFAC’S Committees and in the annual events and meetings organized by the Federation.