DUSHANBE, September 5, Asia-Plus — On Monday September 3, the USAID Accounting/Certified International Professional Accountants (CIPA) Project began implementing a Training-of-Teachers of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) on CIPA Program and Teaching Methodology, press release issued by the US Embassy in Dushanbe said.
The HEI teachers are training 60 hours each on the following subjects: Financial Accounting-1, Managerial Accounting-1, and Tax & Law as well as 20 hours of innovative methodology training on how to teach these subjects to students. These classes will help prepare the teachers to take examinations in order that they might receive Certified Accounting Practitioner qualification and successfully teach CAP level courses to university students.
Classes are conducted across four countries in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. In Kazakhstan training will take place in Almaty, Astana, Shymkent, Uralsk and Pavlodar.
Through the CIPA program over the past seven years, USAID has supported accounting reform in Central Asia with substantial results. 7972 accountants have been qualified as Certified Accounting Practitioners (CAP) and 154 experts have been qualified as Certified International Professional Accountants (CIPA) of which 3228 CAPs and 26 CIPAs are from Kazakhstan. The advantages of the CIPA program are that it is in the Russian language, it is professionally administered, and it corresponds to real business conditions.
The A/CIPA project is one of the many assistance projects made possible by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Since 1992, the American people through USAID have provided more than $1.5 billion in programs that support Central Asia’s health care sector, democratic institutions, education, and economic growth.
