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BY CONNLA STOKES, IN HO CHI MINH CITY

As one of the world’s fastest-growing accountancy bodies, ACCA is attracting more finance and management professionals in Asia eager to get to the top. This is certainly the case for Shanghai, China-born Katherine Wu.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN

Tenzing Lamsang reports from Bhutan on an ACCA Fellow’s roles in fostering good audit and accounting practice there and throughout Asia.

HE displays a tough streak in combatting fraud, corruption and governmental waste, but also a mellower side in his public service ethic and support for his country’s pursuit of happiness.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG IN THIMPHU

BHUTAN is a small Himalayan nation striving to strengthen its financial infrastructure and transparency while pursuing happiness as an economic policy goal for some 710,000 inhabitants living in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

For a perspective on progress, Accountancy Futures talked to Jigmi Rinzin, a hugely influential Bhutanese and Asia accountancy voice as: a member of the Bhutanese parliament serving on several economic committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC); former chief auditor at Bhutan’s Royal Audit Authority (RAA); and secretary general of the Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committees (ARAPAC).…

BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN

JIGMI RINZIN: CV

? Currently: Secretary General, ARAPAC (from Dec 2010); MP (from Apr 2008), National Council of Bhutan NCB); Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Bhutan – member (from Apr 2009) and chairman (Jul 2010 – Jun 2011); Member of Economics Affairs Committee and Chairman, Parliamentary Entitlements Committee, NCB (from Jul 2008).…

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 African Accountancy Council (CCOA).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TALKS are being prepared at the European Union (EU) involving MEPs, EU ministers and European Commission officials over improving the collection of accountancy data on farm incomes and business operations. The Working Party on Financial Agricultural Questions (AGRIFIN) is coordinating this work, which could reform the EU’s regulation No 1217/2009 setting up a network collecting this information.…

THE GOAL of making sustainability reporting a norm for companies worldwide was boosted by an agreement forged at the United Nations Sustainable Development Conference (Rio+20) in June, but ultimately, national governments will still be responsible for this key policy area.

The investor-led Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition (CSRC) led the charge for a deal at the Rio de Janeiro meeting that included solid international commitments on expanding sustainability reporting, and some green activists will doubtless have been disappointed by the result.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

Niyaz Ibrahim

* May 2011 to present – Auditor General of the Maldives

*May 2010 to present – member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

*August 2010 to present – Lecturer Villa College, the Maldives

*March 2010 to May 2011 – Chief Internal Auditor – Maldives Ports Limited

*November 2008 to January 2009 and June 2009 to February 2010 – Deputy Director General of Audit – Maldives Auditor General’s Office (AGO)

*September 2008 to Nov 2008 – Assistant Director General of Audit – AGO

*July 2004 to Sept 2007 – Assistant Auditor – Audit Office

*October 2000 to Sept 2002 – Accounts Officer Trainee – Audit Office

*July 2004 to Sep 2007 – Manager – Gothic Construction Private Limited

*July 2004 to present – Private practising (Auditing, accountancy, financial and management services)

*January 2009 to June 2009 – ACCA Professional Examinations: (FTC Kaplan, Singapore)

*September 2007 to September 2008 – MSc.…

BY POORNA RODRIGO

HAVING being groomed by his country’s auditor general’s office as a trainee accountant over a decade ago, Niyaz Ibrahim says he feel proud to head this institution today as the Maldives auditor general.

Ibrahim assumed the top post in May 2011.…

BY MARK ROWE

THE ARAB world maybe liberalizing, amidst sometime violent struggle, but the world still awaits a Central Asia spring. Five former Soviet states straddle this region – Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan – and all, to varying degrees, are struggling to develop internationally-recognised financial reporting standards, business ethics and commercial regulation.…