Throughout the year many of our members and students have gathered together to celebrate being part of ACCA's global family.
| December 2003 -
The launch of ACCA's centenary year took place on 1 December 2003 in Hong Kong |
Cutting the cake: Sam Wong,
Madame Feng Shu-Ping, Sir David Tweedie, and ACCA Chief Executive, Allen Blewitt
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Sir David Tweedie,
chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, spoke at the event
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| January 2004 - ACCA Ireland and
ACCA Caribbean hold centenary seminars |
Women in accountancy at the Ireland seminar: from left to right, Ceara Hall, president, Munster/Connaught Society; Anne Keogh, president, Leinster Society; Joanne Small,
chairman, Practitioner's Network; Mary McAleese, president of Ireland; Orla Collins, chairman, Financial Services' Network; and Andrea Orr, president, Ulster Society
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Former Secretary General of the Commonwealth and former Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Shridath Ramphal QC, chats with ACCA members at the
Caribbean event
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| February 2004 - ACCA Scotland held its centenary dinner in February at the magnificent 18th century Trades Hall of Glasgow |
Stuart Riddell, head of ACCA Scotland, Hamish McKay, president of ACCA Scotland, and Christopher Forster, vice president of ACCA
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Bob Herz, Chairman of the FASB addresses the audience at the
ACCA US centenary seminar in New York
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| March 2004 -
The ACCA Hong Kong centenary business seminar saw debates on enhancing investor confidence, good corporate governance, the role of the CFO and the importance of audit committees, while a seminar was also held for ACCA Australia and New Zealand |
Professor Simon Ho, Dean, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, Paul Moxey, ACCA's head of corporate governance and risk management, Mr Jimmy
Chung, vice president, ACCA Hong Kong, Mr Richard Mak, president, The Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, Mr Moses Cheng, GBS, OBE, JP, senior partner,
P C Woo & Co, Mr Alexander Reid Hamilton, independent non-executive director , Dr Agatha Shuk-yee Wong-Fraser, development director, BPSA International Ltd
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Simon Longstaff, executive director, St James Ethics Centre, Richard Francis, ACCA's head of Australia and New Zealand centre, and Paul Moxey, ACCA's head of corporate
governance pictured in Sydney
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| April 2004 - ACCA Sri Lanka celebrated its centenary with a seminar on the topic of corporate social responsibility and
ACCA Ireland's centenary president's dinner in Belfast |
Address by ACCA Chief Executive Allen Blewitt in Sri Lanka
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Tom Frawley, Northern Ireland Ombudsman, Lord Goldsmith, Northern Ireland Attorney General, Anthony Harbison, ACCA Ireland president
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| May 2004 -
Over 70 people attended the ACCA Pakistan centenary seminar on corporate governance, while two conferences were held in Vietnam |
Allen Blewitt chats with ACCA members at the Pakistan seminar
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Staff members at an ACCA Vietnam event
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| June 2004 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth visits ACCA and ACCA UK 's London centenary dinner |
Her Majesty The Queen with ACCA President John Brace
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The BBC's John Humphrys
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| July 2004 -
ACCA's centenary was celebrated in Kenya by a tree planting ceremony in Karura forest, Nairobi, while
the role of the public sector in accounting was the main focus at two ACCA centenary business seminars in Zambia and Malawi |
The Honourable Professor Wangari Mathai MP, assistant minister for the environment, natural resources and wildlife plants the first of 1,000 trees
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Delegates at ACCA's centenary event
for Zambia and Malawi
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| August 2004 -
ACCA Ghana hosted a centenary business seminar on the theme of the role of the public sector in ensuring accountability while ACCA Zambia held a centenary charity golf tournament |
Mr Edward Dua-Agyeman, the auditor general of Ghana, delivers his paper
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Attendees of the charity golf tournament
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| September 2004 - A football competition and centenary festivities in Nepal |
The winners of the ACCA UK and ACCA Ireland 5-a-side Football Challenge, Salford PCT, pictured with Stuart Comer, ACCA UK's head
of marketing
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ACCA Nepal students
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| October 2004 -
Centenary business seminar in Brussels
and the ACCA UK & Ireland Centenary Golf Final at Turnberry |
John Brace,
ACCA president; Allen Blewitt, ACCA chief executive; Alexander Schaub, EC internal market director-general;
and Juergen Tiedje,
EC deputy head of accounting and audit
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Team winners (Scotland) of the Centenary Golf Final
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| November 2004 - ACCA's UK centenary seminar, fireworks over central London and ACCA's International Assembly at Lord's cricket ground |
The Right Honourable Chris Patten gave the after dinner address. He is pictured here with ACCA's Deputy President, Christopher Forster
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Fireworks over central London celebrate ACCA's centenary
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ACCA's International Assembly visits Lord's cricket ground, London
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