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ACCA Centenary celebrations Association of Chartered Certified Accounts is celebrating its centenary this year. President ACCA Sam Wong, Chief Executive ACCA Allen Blewitt would be in Sri Lanka on April 26 (Monday) to attend the Sri Lankan celebrations. Head of Social and Environmental issues at ACCA Rachel Jackson would address the breakfast meeting on April 26 on corporate social responsibility and conduct a special workshop on environmental reporting. Sam Wong Sam Wong FCCA is President for 2003 - 2004 of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He is the first non-European ever to be elected President of ACCA. Sam Wong is based in Hong Kong, where he obtained a Higher Diploma in Accountancy from Hong Kong Polytechnic in 1977. This was followed by an MBA from the University of Bradford (UK). He qualified as an ACCA member in 1981 and advanced to fellowship in 1986. The greater part of Mr. Wong's career has been spent with the international accounting firm Ernst & Young in Hong Kong, where he is currently Partner - Assurance and Advisory Business Services. He is responsible for audits of medium to large companies listed on the Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges. His involvement with ACCA began in 1993 when he joined the Executive Committee of ACCA Hong Kong. He became Chairman of ACCA Hong Kong in 1998 and the following year was elected to ACCA's International Council. Wong is also a member of CPA Australia, the Macau Society of Certified Practising Accountants and the Hong Kong Securities Institute. He is also Honorary Adviser to the Children's Heart Fund of Hong Kong Adventist Hospital. Allen Blewitt On 1 December 2003 Allen Blewitt was appointed Chief Executive of ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), the largest, international accountancy body with over 300,000 members and students in over 160 countries. He had joined ACCA in May 2003 and had spent just over six months as Executive Director - Asia Pacific. In this capacity he was responsible for formulating strategy and new market developments in a region extending from Mongolia through China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Mekong Delta, Indonesia to Australia and New Zealand. Allen joined ACCA after 18 years at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) where he held various senior roles, including Deputy Chief Executive, Head of Strategy & Innovation, Director of Education and Professional Development, and Director of Operations. He was responsible for several major projects including: the restructuring of the professional entry programme; the reviewing and rebuilding of student marketing; the introduction of specialisation; the restructuring of member input/committee processes; a revamped strategic planning and corporate planning process; and thought leadership initiatives on innovation for the profession. In 2000 he became Team Leader of Year-long Asian Development Bank project to build the capacity of the accounting profession in Nepal. Allen's career started at Sydney University and Australian Catholic University where he worked as a lecturer. He holds the following qualifications: BA (Hons), M.Ed, FAICD, FAIM. Rachel Jackson Rachel is Head of Social and Environmental Issues at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She manages the ACCA UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting and is secretariat to the European Sustainability Reporting Awards (ESRA). She sits on the shortlisting panel for the environmental reporting category of the UK ACCA Awards, and co-ordinates the ACCA reporting award schemes in Ireland, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, US, Hong Kong and Australia.She has contributed to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines and has given numerous presentations on environmental, social and sustainability reporting. Rachel is the editor of ACCA's 'Accounting & Sustainability' e-Newsletter, a bi-monthly web-based publication covering accounting issues with regards to sustainable development. She has written several ACCA publications covering reporting issues, including An Introduction to Environmental Reporting, the annual Report of the Judges, and the forthcoming publication Environmental Reporting Guidelines for Malaysian Companies. She has also written various other pieces of work including contributions to the Earthscan publication The Green Office Manual and the CBI's Environment Handbook. Rachel has a Masters degree in Environmental Technology from Imperial College. |
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