Committee on Education, Training and CPD

Mission

To direct efforts on ensuring that standards of Education, Examination, Training & CPD within the region meet the acceptable benchmarks internationally and, the changing market requirements.

Objectives

To facilitate SAFA members to:

1) Education:

• Integrate and establish harmony with syllabus in the Schools & University education in the Region.
• Bring the Education curriculum relevant to their respective fields of specialization in line with International Education Standards issued by IFAC.
• Ensure that academic process of study focus on the development of competence meeting with the requirements and expectations from the accountancy profession in a dynamic context.
• Pooling of resources in the SAFA region for being used in learning programs for dissemination of professional education.
• Bringing harmony in the standards and quality of education imparted by the member bodies in the region with strong ethical foundation.

2) Examinations

• Facilitate an objective review of the quality and integrity of the examination system and examination evaluation process of the Member Bodies.
• Facilitate the development of common guidelines for examination systems and processes including grading, using the state of art technology and ensuring acceptable level of transparency.

3) Training

• Facilitate the review and implementation of training formats to ensure that the training imparted to the students is relevant to the market demands, and the competencies expected from professional accountants.
• Ensure that the level of education and experience provided to the students fulfills the requirements of global trends and market expectation .

4) Continuing Professional Education (CPE)

• Pool resources in the SAFA region for making available to member bodies for imparting best available CPE in cost effective manner and by using the State of Art Technology.
• Evolve system that would facilitate imparting CPE to Members according to their needs, and the expectation of the market.
• Develop common guidelines on CPE as minimum benchmark within the region with a view to giving reasonable level of assurance to the society that the members continue to have desired level of competence and values.
• Review that the member bodies do have a system for imparting the CPE, in line with common guidelines.
• Extend support among the Professional Accounting Organisations (PAOs) in the region to initiate lifelong learning opportunities in the key areas including sustainability, ethics, technology and public sector accounting.