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    <title>Guide to Using International Standards on Auditing in Small- and Medium-Sized Entities</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/-QCvnzf5mCc/guide-using-international-standards-auditing-small-and-medium-sized-entities</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Ecoe Ediciones&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translated publication can be found &lt;a href="http://www.ecoeediciones.com/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.ifac.org/download/AuditorAsa_Financiera_de_PYMES.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/-QCvnzf5mCc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Handbook of International Public Sector Accounting Pronouncements</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/k7hffoK_mH0/handbook-international-public-sector-accounting-pronouncements-13</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;USAID Economic Reforms to Enhance Competitiveness (EREC) Project&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cash Basis IPSAS - Financial Reporting Under the Cash Basis of Accounting only&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/k7hffoK_mH0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/handbooks">Handbooks</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/language/russian">Russian</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/ipsasb">IPSASB</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/public-sectorsovereign-debt">Public Sector/Sovereign Debt</category>
 <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Framework for International Education Standards for Professional Accountants</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/rAWsVpFANlk/framework-international-education-standards-professional-accountants-0</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Collegium of Auditors (Kazakhstan)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Completed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Translated publication can be found &lt;a href="http://kz-adviser.kz/news/1-kz/755-qulity" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kz-adviser.kz/download/Framework_IES.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/rAWsVpFANlk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/adoption-implementation">Adoption &amp; Implementation</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/language/russian">Russian</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/standards-pronouncements">Standards &amp; Pronouncements</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/iaesb">IAESB</category>
 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Evaluating and Improving Costing in Organizations</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/LMiYVCdta7Q/evaluating-and-improving-costing-organizations</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Saudi Organization for Certified Public Accountants&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Completed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translated publication can be found &lt;a href="http://www.socpa.org.sa/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.socpa.org.sa" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/LMiYVCdta7Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/language/arabic">Arabic</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/tags/financial-and-performance-management">Financial and Performance Management</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/surveys-reports">Surveys &amp; Reports</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/paib-committee">PAIB Committee</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/professional-accountants-business">Professional Accountants in Business</category>
 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Evaluating and Improving Governance in Organizations</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/3OT_w88RTnc/evaluating-and-improving-governance-organizations-0</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Saudi Organization for Certified Public Accountants&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Completed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Translated publication can be found &lt;a href="http://www.socpa.org.sa/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.socpa.org.sa/Pdf/EIGO.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/3OT_w88RTnc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/guidance-support-tools">Guidance &amp; Support Tools</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/governance-sustainability">Governance &amp; Sustainability</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/paib-committee">PAIB Committee</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/professional-accountants-business">Professional Accountants in Business</category>
 <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <title>Handbook of International Public Sector Accounting Pronouncements - 2010 Edition</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/trJvoN1Krrg/handbook-international-public-sector-accounting-pronouncements-2010-edition</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;Arab Society of Certified Accountants (ASCA, Jordan)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Completed&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The translated publication can be found &lt;a href="http://www.ascasociety.org/" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/trJvoN1Krrg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/language/arabic">Arabic</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/handbooks">Handbooks</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/ipsasb">IPSASB</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/public-sectorsovereign-debt">Public Sector/Sovereign Debt</category>
 <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>radu.cocian@gmail.com</dc:creator>
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    <title>IFAC Proposes Revised Statements of Membership Obligations</title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/QTCc1iMVnA8/ifac-proposes-revised-statements-membership-obligations</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;The Board of the International Federation of Accountants recently approved proposed revisions to the &lt;a href="https://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/statements-membership-obligations-1-7-revised"&gt;Statements of Membership Obligations&lt;/a&gt; (SMOs) to be released for public comment. The SMOs form the basis of the IFAC Member Body Compliance Program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ifac.org/news-events/2011-12/ifac-proposes-revised-statements-membership-obligations" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/QTCc1iMVnA8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <comments>http://www.ifac.org/news-events/2011-12/ifac-proposes-revised-statements-membership-obligations#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/language/english">English</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/news-type/press-releases">Press Releases</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/development-profession">Development of the Profession</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/board">Board</category>
 <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>BhumiJariwala@ifac.org</dc:creator>
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    <title>Year-End SMP Quick Poll Reveals Burden of Regulation and Economic  Uncertainty as Top Challenges </title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/D3EFh1M9cjM/year-end-smp-quick-poll-reveals-burden-regulation-and-economic-uncertainty-top-c</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;P&gt;Regulatory burdens and economic woes continue to top the list of challenges faced by small- and medium-sized accountancy practices (SMPs) and their clients, according to the fourth quarter &lt;A href="https://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/ifac-smp-quick-poll-2011-round"&gt;SMP Quick Poll results&lt;/a&gt; released today by IFAC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ifac.org/news-events/2012-02/year-end-smp-quick-poll-reveals-burden-regulation-and-economic-uncertainty-top-c" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/D3EFh1M9cjM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <comments>http://www.ifac.org/news-events/2012-02/year-end-smp-quick-poll-reveals-burden-regulation-and-economic-uncertainty-top-c#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/news-type/press-releases">Press Releases</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/smp-committee">SMP Committee</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/sme-smp-issues">SME &amp; SMP Issues</category>
 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>AlexandraWaibel@ifac.org</dc:creator>
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    <title>IFAC SMP Quick Poll: 2011 Round-Up </title>
    <link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~3/KCPoxG-3iRA/ifac-smp-quick-poll-2011-round</link>
    <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;P&gt;This report summarizes and analyzes the&amp;nbsp;responses from the fourth quarter poll of 2011,&amp;nbsp;conducted from November 17 to December&amp;nbsp;19, 2011. The report also illustrates the SMP&amp;nbsp;Committee’s activities, undertaken in collaboration&amp;nbsp;with IFAC member bodies, that respond to the&amp;nbsp;issues, challenges, and needs of SMPs as identified&amp;nbsp;by the findings.The fourth quarter poll received 2,441 responses and was conducted in seven languages.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN class="Heading1Char"&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/KCPoxG-3iRA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <comments>http://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/ifac-smp-quick-poll-2011-round#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/language/english">English</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/surveys-reports">Surveys &amp; Reports</category>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
 <dc:creator>AlexandraWaibel@ifac.org</dc:creator>
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    <title>Reporting Service Performance Information</title>
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    <description>&lt;p class="Headline"&gt;The Consultation Paper―&lt;em&gt;Reporting Service Performance Information&lt;/em&gt; communicates and solicits feedback on (a) the preliminary views reached by the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB), and (b) other specific matters related to the reporting of service performance information on which the IPSASB has not yet reached a preliminary view. It also highlights and analyzes existing approaches used by public sector entities around the world, where the reporting of service performance information is a feature of public sector financial management.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/reporting-service-performance-information" target="_blank"&gt;read more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ifac-issues-insights/~4/kci0EzOdaVY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
     <comments>http://www.ifac.org/publications-resources/reporting-service-performance-information#comments</comments>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/issues-insights-interest-areas/adoption-implementation">Adoption &amp; Implementation</category>
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 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/publication-type/exposure-drafts-and-consultation-papers">Exposure Drafts and Consultation Papers</category>
 <category domain="http://www.ifac.org/category/source/ipsasb">IPSASB</category>
 <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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