As part of the Strengthening Quality of Auditing and Reporting Project (SQARP) for the Republic of Albania the Albanian Public Oversight Board benefited from an exchange of experience with the Austrian Audit Oversight Authority. A two-day workshop was delivered on March 23-24, 2023, in Tirana, Albania.
During the week of March 21, 2016, the World Bank’s CFRR team held a series of events in Tbilisi to demonstrate the World Bank’s commitment to ongoing reform in audit regulation and support Georgia on its reform path in this important policy area. The key highlights of these events were:
A joint Accounting and Auditing Community of Practice (A&A CoP) workshop took place in Vienna, Austria on December 01, 2022. The event was organized under two flagship programs of the World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR): Strengthening Auditing and Reporting in the Eastern Partnership (STAREP) and the Road to Europe Program of Accounting Reform and Strengthening Institutions for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (REPARIS for SMEs).
“Trust, sustainability, finance, development, communication, and success.” These were the most frequently used words during three high-level events in Vienna from 26 to 28 April, according to Samia Msadek, Practice Director, Governance Global Practice at the World Bank.
Three webinars were held between 8 June and 10 June 2021 under STAREP regional program and these were attended by about 40 participants each day.
The overall aim of the experience exchange webinars was to learn from Slovenian experience related to the establishment of an independent public oversight function, entry requirements and registration of auditors and audit firms; monitoring of continuing professional development; quality assurance inspections and enforcement procedures, as well as cooperation with foreign audit regulators.
A roundtable involving key stakeholders was organized by the World Bank and the Ministry of Finance of Kazakhstan under Joint Economic Research Program (JERP) on March 30, 2021. The event was attended by about 45 participants.
The key objective of the event was to discuss the content of the provisions of the new model of audit oversight function in Kazakhstan.
Four series of webinars were delivered between 09 February and 12 February 2021 and these were attended by about 80 participants each day.
Over 300 stakeholders, including policymakers, representatives from the academia, the profession, regulators, private and public sector employers and representatives from the business community, met in Becici, Montenegro on October 20, 2017 to attend a World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR) workshop focusing on accountancy education.
A World Bank Centre for Financial Reporting Reform (CFRR) workshop in Vienna on October 24 and 25, 2017, reviewed the role of accounting and auditing regulation and specifically how better enforcement can help improve compliance with audit standards, namely international accounting standards (ISA). It also considered the contribution of non-financial reporting and ensuring adequate requirements are in place.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN’s) Audit Regulatory Group (AARG) has partnered with the World Bank to build on and support existing efforts to share knowledge and promote good practices of audit oversight within the countries that make up the ASEAN Community. This collaborative workshop in Bangkok continued the establishment of the Audit Oversight Community of Practice for the prospective AARG members (AOCoP) i.e. the Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam.