INTERNATIONAL PROJECT HELPS CREATE REGIONAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS IN WEST AFRICA
August 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A WORLD Bank report has hailed as a success a project to improve the capacity of west African accounting organisations underpinning the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). An initiative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the monetary union commission had charged regional accounting organisations with regulating west African accounting and auditing practices and standards: the Permanent Council of the Chartered Accountants Profession (CPPC); a commission running CPA training (the CREFECF); and the West ...
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