Central Asia’s Professors Improve Accounting Teaching Methods
Over 250 university professors in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have completed courses on accounting, financial management, and auditing, organized by the USAID A/CIPA project, implemented by Pragma. The courses are intended to strengthen how professors teach these disciplines so that students can gain quality skills that are key to supporting economic transparency and an effective market economy. Each professor received 200 hours of courses and a full set of teaching materials on all CIPA subjects.
CIPA is a Russian-language, professionally administered accounting certification program based on international accounting standards which corresponds to local business conditions. The program was created with USAID support in 2000 and has achieved substantial results in the region over the past seven years. The project also recently trained 45 specialists at the Tajikistan’s Ministry of Finance and received praise from the Deputy Minister there. A/CIPA hopes that such endorsement will help to increase the number of program participants in the country, which currently has one of the lowest numbers of certified accounting specialists in the region. Nearly 8,000 accountants have been certified to date; more than 3,000 of these specialists are from Kazakhstan.
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Accounting training for the Tajikistan Ministry of Finance is hoped to boost the number of certified specialists in that country
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