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ISLAMABAD (June 04, 2014) – The federal budget for the year 2014-15, with a total outlay of Rs3.945 trillion, was approved by the federal cabinet on Tuesday. In his budget speech in parliament, finance minister Ishaq Dar told the house that Rs525 billion have been allotted for the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), a 24 percent increase from last year. ...

ISLAMABAD (June 03, 2014) – The finance ministry of Government of Pakistan yesterday published the annual Economic Survey of Pakistan for the year 2013-14. Highlights of this publication are being presented here. Click on the links below to go directly to that section: Growth and Investment Agriculture Manufacturing and Mining Fiscal Development Money and Credit Capital Markets Inflation Trade and ...

ROLLING MEADOWS, IL, USA (July 30, 2013) – ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association) has issued revised Information Systems (IS) Audit and Assurance Standards. The standards have an effective date of 1 November 2013. Introduced in 1988, the IS Audit and Assurance Standards define mandatory requirements for information systems (IS) auditing and reporting. They inform management of the expectations ...

ISLAMABAD (June 06, 2013) – ACCA and WWF Pakistan yesterday hosted the Green Economy Forum in Islamabad. The event attracted 150 participants including some CEOs, CFOs, ACCA members and other professionals from corporate, public sector and practice, NGOs and Media. The discussion forum ‘Corporate Pakistan Leadership in the Green Economy’, was led by industry experts including Javed Jabbar, Former Global ...

ISLAMABAD (April 29, 2013) – ACCA Islamabad today held a launch ceremony for ACCA Foundation Diploma, the first in the series of launch events for the new diploma. The Foundation Diploma provides essential knowledge and skills for those students without relevant training, and serves as  a clear entry route onto ACCA’s main accountancy qualification called the ACCA qualification. The new ...

ISLAMABAD (March 12, 2013) – ACCA Pakistan (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and RCCI (Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry) signed a Memorandum of Understanding last week to work together to support the business community by building its capacity and capability. The collaborative initiative will be in sharing research, policy views, training and development of business functions in large as ...

KARACHI (February 22, 2013) – Majority of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) looking to appoint new staff for their businesses say they should ideally have both a breadth and depth of finance expertise and capabilities, a new report from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) reveals. ACCA asked CFOs what was important to them when it comes to appointing newly ...

KARACHI (February 12, 2013) – Institute of Business Administration (IBA) in collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) has designed an innovative four-year programme of combining the undergraduate academic degree in Accounting and Finance with a professional Chartered Accountancy qualification. Among other things, the programme also provides an exemption of four modules (12 subjects) from the CA ...

ISLAMABAD (February 11, 2013) – ACCA Islamabad recently organised a students appreciation event title ‘Celebrating Achievement’ in Islamabad. The event honored the nine high achievers of December 2011 and June 2012 sessions. Dr Javaid Leghari, Chairperson, Higher Education Commission (HEC) presented the certificates to the achievers in presence of fellow students, teachers and ACCA fraternity. Speaking on the occassion, Mr ...

KARACHI (January 31, 2013) – Outstanding achievements by two students were recognised by ACCA during a recent visit of the Chief Executive of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) to Pakistan. Helen Brand presented the ACCA Achievement Award to Mr Shehzad Yousuf, Deputy Chief Financial Officer with the Karachi Electric Supply Company, for his contribution to the accountancy profession ...