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The 19th World Congress of Accountants was held in Rome, Italy, on November 10–13, 2014.The theme was 2020 Vision: Learning from the Past, Building the Future. [10] For this Congress, IFAC selected the Consiglio Nazionale dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili, an Italy- based organization and IFAC member body [11] as the hosting organization.
Founded in 1904, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global professional accounting body offering the Chartered Certified Accountant qualification (ACCA). It has 240,952 members and 541,930 future members worldwide. ACCA's headquarters are in London with principal administrative office in Glasgow.
Its website, AccountingToday.com, regularly reaches over 300,000 tax and accounting professionals; its daily newsletters reach close to 100,000 people five days a week. It also publishes a monthly print magazine, which goes out to 45,000 partners and managing partners at leading accounting firms.
Accounting. The Accounting Hall of Fame is an award "recognizing accountants who are making or have made a significant contribution to the advancement of accounting" since the beginning of the 20th century. [1] Inductees are from both accounting academia and practice. Since its inception in 1950 at The Ohio State University, it has honored 120 ...
Founded in 1887 as the American Association of Public Accountants (AAPA), the organization sets ethical standards and U.S. auditing standards. It also develops and grades the Uniform CPA Examination. AICPA is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, and maintains additional offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Ewing, New Jersey.
WorldCom scandal. The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone company at the time. From 1999 to 2002, senior executives at WorldCom led by founder and CEO Bernard Ebbers orchestrated a scheme to inflate earnings in order to maintain ...
Agora Financial. Agora Financial is a privately held publishing company, based in Baltimore, Maryland, that produces print and email publications, books, and conferences directed toward providing financial advice, commentary, and marketing predictions. They participate in several spam campaigns under several names such as Event Horizon LLC ...
Meiji period, 1914. The history of accounting or accountancy can be traced to ancient civilizations. [1][2][3] The early development of accounting dates to ancient Mesopotamia, and is closely related to developments in writing, counting and money [1][4][5] and early auditing systems by the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians. [2]