On December 16, a virtual seminar on the International Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants (IESBA Code) was organized by the EU funded twinning project Enhancing Accounting and Audit Quality in Georgia in cooperation with the Service for Accounting, Reporting and Audit Supervision (SARAS) and the Hellenic Accounting and Auditing Standards Oversight Board (HAASOB).
The CFRR organized a virtual workshop “IFRS for Regulators: COVID-19 Impacts & Responses” under STAREP program using the Webex platform on Tuesday 30 June 2020, at 14:00. The event was attended by around 70 participants.
This workshop aimed to inform regulators about recent financial reporting and regulatory guidance, with a particular emphasis on those aspects of accounting and reporting that are currently most relevant to the financial statements of listed companies, especially banks.
A virtual seminar was organized to support STAREP countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) to better understand the objective and the structure of the recently announced comprehensive review and request of information by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on IFRS for SMEs with a final aim to provide IASB a regional consolidated response to the request for information.
During the first week of May, the regional "Strengthening Auditing and Reporting in the Eastern Partnership" program hosted several knowledge and capacity events aimed at strengthening accounting and auditing profession in Georgia. Joining forces with the Service for Accounting, Reporting and Auditing Supervision (SARAS) and IFRS Foundation, the World Bank’s CFRR delivered two roundtables dedicated to the accounting education and professional development, as well as IFRS Workshop.
Over 32 representatives from Central Banks, Banking Supervisory Agencies, and Insurance Supervisory Agencies from 13 countries from Europe and Central Asia attended the Executive IFRS for Regulators Workshop on 26 and 28 November 2018, at the hotel Intercontinental in Vienna. The workshop was one of the several events around the 2018 Ministerial Conference, that took place on 27 November 2018, and was specifically directed at financial supervisors and regulators. This workshop was jointly organized by the World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR) and the IFRS Foundation.
