Reputation and influence

Across the region

Key regulatory players from Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia and Russia were interviewed for the Manchester Accounting Educators' Forum speech in September, at the session dedicated to auditors' education.
ACCA provided expertise for an accounting reform project in Russia ('Modernisation of Accounting Education in Russia').
A series of meetings was held with the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan, and Ministry of Finance representatives of Kyrgyzstan (Central Asia).

An agreement for further cooperation was made with the Chamber of Auditors of Ukraine.
An ACCA promotional newsletter is now being distributed, via the Central Bank of Ukraine electronic correspondence system, by the National Centre of Bankers' Training in Ukraine.
ACCA Ukraine is now a full member of the European Business Association (650 of the biggest European companies represented in the Ukraine are members of the EBA).
A radio advertising campaign ran on the three most popular radio channels in Ukraine from February to March; an advertising campaign was also run for commercial banks in Ukraine, promoting the ACCA Qualification and ICFE, run with Cambridge University ESOL.
New relationships have been developed with the Ernst & Young Ukraine Academy of Business and SCM Holding.

ACCA has been officially introduced to the Ministry of Finance in Belarus, the Central Bank of Belarus and the EBRD Representative Office in Minsk.
The DipIFR RUS program has been endorsed by the Central Bank of Belarus - 50 bankers have been trained so far.

The Lithuanian Chamber of Auditors was introduced to the new ACCA Qualification.

An MoU was signed with the Chamber of Auditors of Azerbaijan Republic.
The GFPAA (Georgia) qualification has been granted exemptions from ACCA Qualification Papers F1 to F3.