Arnold Schilder Appointed Chair of IAASB Compliance Programme

IFAC NEWS
Arnold Schilder Appointed
Chair of IAASB
The IFAC Board has named Prof. Dr.
Arnold Schilder Chair of the International
Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
(IAASB) for a three-year term beginning 1
January, 2009. The Public Interest Oversight Board, which oversees the IAASB’s
activities, approved the appointment at its
meeting in Madrid , Spain in early July.
Prof. Schilder currently serves as Executive Director of De Nederlandsche Bank
NV. He is also a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and a parttime professor of auditing at the University of Amsterdam. AT
Compliance Programme
Launches Part 3; Member Bodies
Release First Action Plans
The IFAC Member Body Compliance
Programme reached a milestone in July
with the release of the first six member
body action plans. Developed as part of the
third phase of the Compliance Programme,
the action plans identify tools, resources
and regulatory changes needed to address
areas identified through the self-assessment of compliance with IFAC’s membership requirements. The six members that
have completed their action plans are:
䡲 Federación Argentina de Consejos
Profesionales de Ciencias Económicas;
䡲 Botswana Institute of Accountants;
䡲 Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountants;
䡲 Chamber of Auditors of the Czech Republic;
䡲 Institute of Certified Public Accountants
of Kenya ; and
䡲 Corpul Exper tilor Contabili si
Contabililor Autorizati din Romania.
To view member body action plans, as
well as the responses to Parts 1 and 2 of
the Compliance Programme, visit
www.ifac.org/ComplianceAssessment/
published.php. AT
veloping its 2008 Global Leadership Survey on issues impacting the global accountancy profession. We would like to
thank those member bodies that have
suggested topics for the sur vey and we
are in the process of considering these
ideas. If you have not yet suggested a
topic, but would like to do so, please
email [email protected] by 18 July.
Our goal is to finalise the focus of the survey in early August and to notify member bodies shortly thereafter. AT
Education Board Issues
Information Paper on CPD
Measurement
A new information paper issued by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB), Approaches to Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Measurement, assists IFAC member bodies and others in developing effective CPD
programmes for professional accountants.
The information paper explains the elements of an effective CPD programme, examines current practices by accountancy
and other professional associations and discusses approaches to measure a
programme’s effectiveness. The information paper may be downloaded free-ofcharge from the IFAC online bookstore at
www.ifac.org/store. AT
PAIB Committee Proposes
Guidance on Governance and
Costing
As part of IFAC’s ongoing commitment
to support professional accountants in
business in helping to strengthen governance and enhance organisational performance, its Professional Accountants in
Business (PAIB) Committee has released two proposed International Good
Practice Guidance documents for public
comment.
2008 IFAC Global Leadership
Survey
䡲 Evaluating and Improving Governance
in Organisations sets out a framework
and provides guidance for evaluating and
improving an organisation’s governance
structures.
IFAC is currently in the process of de-
䡲 Costing to Drive Organisational Perfor-
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mance establishes a benchmark for good
practice guidance to assist accountants
in business in providing useful cost information to support effective decision
making in organisations.
Comments on the exposure drafts,
which can be viewed at www.ifac.org/EDs
are requested by 23 September 2008.
Comments may be emailed to
[email protected]. AT
2008 SMP Forum to be held
in Nigeria on 13 October
IFAC members, associates, regional accountancy organisations and other
groups are invited to par ticipate in the
2008 IFAC Small and Medium Practices
(SMP) Forum in Abuja , Nigeria on 13
October. The one-day forum will seek to
identify and address issues facing SMPs
and small and medium-sized entities
(SMEs), particularly those in Africa . Forum par ticipants will be provided with
an update on progress made in achieving the recommendations from the 2007
SMP Forum and will have an oppor tunity to provide input on the SMP
Committee’s strategy and work program. Fur ther information about the
forum, including the forum brochure,
will be available on the SMP
Committee’s webpage, www.ifac.org/
smp, in the coming weeks. AT
IFAC Appoints Alta Prinsloo
Director of Operations
Alta Prinsloo, CA (SA), has been appointed
IFAC Director of Operations effective 1
January 2009. Prinsloo is currently Deputy
Director of the IAASB. As Director of Operations, Prinsloo will be responsible for,
among other things, IFAC’s planning, budgeting and financial management; human
resources and information technology and
managing preparations for IFAC Council
and Board meetings. She will take over
from Stephen Walker, who has served as
Director of Operations since September
2002 and who is leaving at the end of the
year to return to his home country of New
Zealand. AT
ACCOUNTANTS TODAY • August 2008