CAPA is pleased to announce Dr. In Ki Joo as the new CAPA President, whom will be taking over office from Kamlesh Vikamsey for the term November 2009 to October 2011. He was Deputy President from October 2007 to October 2009 and has served as a Board member of CAPA since July 2004.

Dr. Joo is a Professor of Accounting at the School of Business in Yonsei University Seoul, Korea and is very active in roles related to the accountancy profession through involvement in committees and board of various organisations.  | full story >>

The CAPA Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Brian Blood as Chief Executive.

He brings with him finance, business and accounting experience, together with broad leadership skills. He had 27 years with global Big 4 accounting firms, including 16 years as a Partner. In that time he worked across corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors. His career focused on external audit, however, since the mid 1990's has concentrated on building internal audit and business risk advisory practices.  | full story >>

The Malaysian Institute of Accountants (MIA) is the proud co-host of the World Congress of Accountants (WCOA) 2010 which will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 8-11 November 2010. Registration is now open, click here for more information.

The mission of CAPA is to provide leadership in the development, enhancement and coordination of the accountancy profession in the Asia-Pacific region to enable the profession to provide services of consistently high quality in the public interest.

• 1957
  Inception of CAPA at the first Far East Conference of Accountants. This was held in Manila, Philippines on November 28 to December 1, 1957.
  
• 1960
  Change of name from the Far East Conference of Accountants to the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants.
  
• 1973
  Formation of the Executive Committee to look into the formalisation of CAPA as a regional federation complete with a constitution, president and secretariat.
  

This will undoubtedly be a major accounting event for the Asia-Pacific region and will bring together members and conference participants from all over the world.

The next CAPA conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia on September 7-9, 2011. The host of this conference are CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

(Completed October 2009)

In response to the fact that the increasingly serious and complex environmental and social issues in today’s world would require the strict attention and concern of businesses and investment communities, CAPA conducted a survey on environmental accounting and corporate social responsibility.

The survey project, lead by the Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants with a task force chaired by Dr. Takeshi Mizuguchi, aims to stimulate CAPA member bodies activities on environmental accounting/CSR issues and sharing such information with all member bodies.

The findings were published in a main survey report released on 31 October 2009 at a forum in Beijing, China.  Click here to access the report and forum materials.