The Centre provides knowledge services and capacity development assistance. Services include analytical and advisory services, learning and skill development, know-how and knowledge transfer, and technical assistance and institutional strengthening. All CFRR publications are available on this site.

STAREP Progress Reports

Report | 2023

The CFRR produces regular reports for its main programs to inform donors, participants and other stakeholders of how the programs are developing. These progress reports summarize the activities carried out under the program and outline how the experience gained will be used to improve the design of the next stages of the program.

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Handbook of International Education Pronouncements 2019: Russian Translation

Publication | 2021

The 2019 Education Handbook contains the IAESB’s suite of International Education Standards (IES) 1-8. The handbook's organization focuses on supporting the IESs, which present the underlying principles, concepts, and definitions that enhance accountancy education.

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Informing the reading of IFRS Financial Statements: A guide for banking and financial supervisors

Publication | 2021

This guide suggests practices and examples of specific accounting and auditing issues and questions that supervisors need to consider when monitoring and reviewing banking sector financial statements. It aims to enable prudential supervisors to form an understanding of a bank’s business drivers, risks and critically evaluate the quality of financial assets and the related provisions for credit losses using IFRS financial statements. It also lists regulatory areas which are connected with accounting requirements which supervisors may investigate further when reviewing financial statements.

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Competency-based accounting education and assessment materials – Implementation Guide

Publication | 2020

This Guide seeks to provide guidance across the broad range of education, assessment, training and certification, including pre-and post-certification. It focuses on providing in-depth direction to educators on how to develop quality education and assessment materials within the context of a competency-based accounting education program.

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Common Core Accounting Syllabus for Universities

Publication | 2019

The Common Core includes a series of learning objectives which would establish a solid platform for all Accounting Degree Programs offered by Universities in the STAREP Region. It was developed through a broad consultation process with EduCoP participants, including representatives from ministries of finance, universities, and professional accountancy organisations (PAOs) from its six member countries, who provided fundamental input to define the common learning outcomes to be included.

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Competency-based Accounting Education, Training & Certification: Implementation Guide

Publication | 2019

The guide supports transitioning accounting education, training, and certification from a knowledge-based approach to a competency-based approach. Underlying this shift is the expanding expectation for accountants to professional judgment in response to greater transaction complexity, interconnectedness of entities, and broader global influences.

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National Education Initiatives – Armenia

Publication | 2019

This publication summarizes the results of the diagnostic activities that have been conducted in Armenia throughout the STAREP Program. It also documents the direction of future reforms and substance of capacity-building activities required to support greater compliance with international best practices in accounting education and International Education Standards (IESs) published by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB).

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National Education Initiatives – Georgia

Publication | 2019

This publication summarizes the results of the diagnostic activities that have been conducted in Georgia throughout the STAREP Program. It also documents the direction of future reforms and substance of capacity-building activities required to support greater compliance with international best practices in accounting education and International Education Standards (IESs) published by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB).

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National Education Initiatives – Belarus

Publication | 2019

This publication summarizes the results of the diagnostic activities that have been conducted in Belarus throughout the STAREP Program. It also documents the direction of future reforms and substance of capacity-building activities required to support greater compliance with international best practices in accounting education and International Education Standards (IESs) published by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB).

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National Education Initiatives – Ukraine

Publication | 2019

This publication summarizes the results of the diagnostic activities that have been conducted in Ukraine throughout the STAREP Program. It also documents the direction of future reforms and substance of capacity-building activities required to support greater compliance with international best practices in accounting education and International Education Standards (IESs) published by the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB).

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