Start of the Activities of the Accounting Education and Qualification Seminar Tomorrow
02 Oct 1993The Minister of Industry and Commerce Mr. Maqbool Bin Ali Sultan, will patronize the activities of the accounting education and qualification seminar tomorrow morning.
Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab Society of Certified Accountants (ASCA) stated that the significance of convening this seminar organized by ASCA and the Omani Chamber of Industry and Commerce is that it comes to highlight the importance of the accounting profession in establishing sound economic foundations for building any nation, in addition to highlighting the methods and tools that need to be followed to develop the discipline.
In particular, one of these methods is raising the level of accounting education programs in both Arab institutes and universities to be compatible with the new variables witnessed by the Arab region. The seminar is also an invitation to professional societies and bodies in the Arab region to occupy an effective role in the vocational training and educational process. It urges professionals in the field to not only consider the university degree as sufficient, but to constantly seek whatever new knowledge and information arises in the discipline, and tying it in with other sciences the most significant of which is information technology.
The seminar aims to focus efforts and establish certain perceptions on developing the accounting field in the Sultanate, in addition to creating a professional society that will organize and advance the accounting profession. It also aims to establish accounting qualification programs for the Omanization of the vocation which will keep it up to speed with international changes and updates.
Mr. Abu-Ghazaleh added that the seminar provides an important opportunity for all those concerned to have access and be acquainted with everything new in this area, since the lecturing participants in this seminar represent an elite group of specialists with vast expertise in this realm.
Some of these participants are David Kezter, the Secretary-General for the International Accounting Standards Committee, Cecil Donovan, the Head of the Education Committee at the International Federation of Accountants, Adel Kedah, Chairman of the Audit Bureau in Jordan, Dr. Naim Dahmash, Dean of the Accounting Department at the University of Jordan, Dr. Yahya Rashdan, the Professor at the Omani Professional Development Institution and Dr. Diya’a Alhashem, Professor of Accounting at Northridge University in California.
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