Two publications from IFAC education board
22 Aug 2006
IFAC's International Accounting Education Standards Board has published two documents: Proposed new guidance outlining the knowledge and skills necessary to prepare professional accountants to perform competently in one or more information technology roles.
Those roles could include:
An information paper on Approaches to the Development and Maintenance of Professional Values, Ethics and Attitudes in Accounting Education Programs. The paper will serve as the basis for the development of an International Education Practice Statement on this topic. Click for Press Release (PDF 82k).
Both of the foregoing press releases have hyperlinks so you can obtain the underlying document from IFAC.
- Assurance provider and evaluator, such as an internal financial or operational auditor or evaluator of information systems;
- Manager of information systems, such as a knowledge manager or data center manager; and
- Designer of business systems, alone or as part of team, such as a knowledge engineer, external advisor or consultant.