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ASCA board approves accountants meeting in Bahrain in April

27 Jan 1993
AMMAN (Star) — The 25th meeting of the Arab Society of Certified Accountants(ASCA) was held in Cairo on 9 January. The board of directors, which met under the chairmanship of Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, approved the program of - the Third Arab International Accounting Conference, which will be held in Bahrain
in collaboration with the Bahrain Society for Accountants between 10-12 April.

The conference, which will be held under the auspices of Bahrain’s Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa Ben Salman Al Khalifa, will be attended by representatives of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) New York and the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) London, as well as a number of Arab and international businessmen.
 
The timing of the conference will coincide with the first seminar to be held in the Arab world by the United Nations Center on Transnational Cooperation in association with ASCA under the sponsorship of the Bahrain government.

The seminar will deal with the basis for setting accounting standards in the Arab world. Representatives of the concerned governmental agencies will be in attendance.
The Cairo meeting announced that the ASCA examination board will meet in London on 2 March to approve the results of last December’s examinations. The president of the society will attend this meeting to announce the names of the students who successfully passed the three examinations and therefore will receive the title of “Arab Certified Accountant.”
Meanwhile, the president of ASCA accepted an invitation from the United Nations to chair the 19th annual meeting for the United Nations Inter governmental Working Group of Expert& on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) at the UN headquarters in New York during the period 4-12 March.

The Cairo meeting also approved the program suggested by the chairman as a work plan to be adopted by ASCA in IFAC through the election of the chairman of the society as a member in the IFAC council, thus achieving the first Arabic presence on the top of this organization which regulates the profession’s affairs in the world.

It also approved a future plan for examination schedules for the coming period and the recommendations regarding the development of the Certified Accountant, the first monthly magazine for accountants, now in its 8th year and which represents a tool for professional communication in the Arab world.
The board approved cooperation programs with Arab universities by holding preparatory courses for students for society examinations.
Finally it decided that the general annual meeting for the society will be held in Bahrain on 10 April.