Events
ACCA Pakistan organised a seminar on professionalism and ethics to launch the new ACCA Qualification in Karachi. Guest of honour was Dr Hameeda Khuhro, Education Minister - Sindh. The seminar was attended by around 200 guests including ACCA members, affiliates some students, ACCA approved employers, partners and journalists. ACCA chief executive Allen Blewitt introduced the new qualification and highlighted that much of this effort was spurred by the knowledge that the absence of ethics had recently caused the downfall of several big firms. Head of ACCA Pakistan, Arif Masud Mirza said that professionalism and ethics is a journey for the students to becoming an ACCA member and during this journey students come across teachers, members and employers who help them learn professional attitude and ethical values. Also speaking were Dr Hameeda Khuhro on education and governance; Imran Aslam, CEO of GEO Television Network, on ethics in the media; the head of the University of Karachi’s Visual Studies Department, Durriya Kazi, on 'games of opportunity'; and Majid Khan, former Cricketer and Ex-CEO of the Pakistan Cricket Board, on professionalism and ethics in sports. The event concluded with a cake-cutting ceremony to mark the launch of the new ACCA Qualification, followed by a press conference and dinner.
In March, ACCA Pakistan organised a two-day conference for CFOs in Karachi on the theme ‘CFOs - the opportunities and challenges ahead’. The conference was held to highlight emerging topics which would affect the future role of CFOs. The keynote address was given by the then ACCA president (now ACCA past president), Dennis Yeates, followed by Hon Dr Salman Shah, advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on finance, revenue and economic affairs. Further presentations at the conference covered a range of topics including the impact of global regulations on the banking sector, Basel II, the adoption of XBRL, the changing nature of annual reports, workplace attitudes and behaviours, and Internet reporting. The last session of the conference focused on the need to recruit more women into the accountancy profession presented by Penelope Phoon, head of ACCA Singapore, and Kashmala Tariq, national assembly member, who spearheaded some of the recent reforms in Pakistan legislation which had an impact on women.
High-profile speakers and guests at events:
- Lt Gen (R) Khalid Maqbool, Governor, Punjab
- Dr Saeeda Malik, Minister Women Development, Government of Sindh
- Arjumand Ahmed Minai, senior ACCA member and MD of Standard Chartered Mudaraba
- Zafar Aziz Osmani, senior executive vice president and member of the management committee heading the HR & Organization Development Group at Habib Bank Ltd
- Rukhsana Jabbar, Additional Auditor General of Pakistan
- Jaweria Haisum, senior ACCA member, corporate governance specialist, State Bank of Pakistan
- Arif Elahi, director, General Board of Investment, Government of Pakistan
- Hamida Khoro, Minister of Education, Government of Sindh
- Imran Aslam, CEO, GEO TV
- Durriya Kazi, University of Karachi
- Majid Khan, former cricket and ex-CEO of Pakistan Cricket Board
- Allen Blewitt, ACCA chief executive
- Kurt Ramin, global chairman, XBRL International Steering Committee
- Salman Shah, advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Dennis Yeates, past president, ACCA
- Tariq Kirmani, CEO and chairman, Pakistan International Airlines Corporation
- Christian Marlier, Corporate Risk Management, Fortis (Brussels)
- Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of taxation, ACCA
- Ebrahim Sidat, partner and country head, Ernst & Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder & Co, Chartered Accountants
- Shamshad Akhtar, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan
- Feroz Bashir Ansari, Deputy Auditor General of Pakistan
- Tay Kay Luan, head of ACCA ASEAN and Australasia
- Rashid Irfan Malik, commissioner, Company Law, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan
- Zahid Zaheer, chief executive, Pakistan Institute of Corporate Governance
- Sharad Sinha, vice president, Industry Strategy & Insight, Oracle Corporation
- Wali Zahid, country director, British Council Management Development Services
- Kashmala Tariq, member, National Assembly, executive director, Parliamentary Commission for Human Rights
- Ghalib Nishtar, president, Khushhali Bank
- Penelope Phoon-Cohen, head of ACCA Singapore
- Mukhtar Ahmed, member Operation and Planning, Higher Education Commission Government of Pakistan
- Farrukh Moriani, honorary UN Advisor, UNDP
- Habib Fakhruddin, member, Taxpayer Education and Facilitation, Central Board of Revenue
- Abdullah Yousaf, chairman, CBR
- Richard Martin, head of Financial Reporting, ACCA
- Robin Jarvis, head of SME, ACCA
- Shahid Rashid, CEO, SMEDA
- Muhammad Nasir Khan, president of the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Irfan Ilyas, partner, Ilyas Saeed & Co Chartered Accountants
- Kamran Elahi, chairman, Banking and Insurance sub-committee, Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry
- Khurram M Qamar, advocate, Qamar-ul-Islam & Co
- Qasim Nawaz, director SME & Microfinance, State Bank of Pakistan
- Raees Gaya, head of Jaffer Consulting
- Kaiser H Naseem, manager, Pakistan Corporate Governance Project, IFC
- Sardar Bahader Dareshak, Minister of Finance, Punjab
- Shoukat Tareen, chairman, Karachi Stock Exchange
- Malik Amin Aslam Khan, Minister of State for Environment
- Dr Pervez Hassan, partner, Hassan & Hassan Advocates
- Ali Hassan Habib, director general, WWF Pakistan
- Tahir Javeed, GM Human Resources and Public Affairs, Engro Chemicals Ltd
- Hammad Naqi, director, Toxic Water and Cleaner Productions, WWF Pakistan
- Nauman Shah, GM Technical Projects, Pakistan Refinery Ltd
- Ghulam Qadir Shah, manager conservation, WWF Pakistan
- Shella Javed Ikram, president, Women Chamber of Commerce
- Javed Iqbal Marth, deputy chief manager, State Bank of Pakistan
- Zoya Aliem Khan, CEO, Zoya Herbal Workshop
- George Bartlett, George Bartlett Limited
- Noman Ali, manager, SMEDA
- A H Kath, secretary general, Memon Professional Forum
- Andy Wynne, head of public sector, ACCA
- Mansoor Ali Zaidi, senior manager, finance, Highnoon Laboratories
- Muhammad Arshad, head of taxation and internal audit, First Fidelity Leasing Modaraba
- Mohammad Ashraf, manager, tax, A F Ferguson & Co, Charted Accountants
- Muhammad Faisal Shaikh, member, ACCA
- Ali A Rahim, president, Income Tax Bar Association
- Dr Mirza Ikhtiar Baig, chairman, SITE, Association of Industries
- Salman Nabi, member, CBR
- Yawer Irfan Khan, director, Irfan Foods Private Ltd
- Fawad Ul Hassan Zubairi, manager, Income Tax, Nestle Milkpak Ltd
- Zeenat Saeed Ahmed, CEO, Taneez (Pvt) Ltd.