IFAC

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IFAC is comprised of 180 members and associates in 135 countries and jurisdictions, representing more than 3 million accountants in public practice, education, government service, industry, and commerce.

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United States, New York, Watervliet

Employees

201-500

Founded date

1977

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Jun 27, 2025	HKICPA renews its Mutual Recognition Agreement with ACCA	HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 27 June 2025 – The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) is delighted to announce its renewal of Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the Association of Chartered Certified...
Feb 23, 2025	How the FDA’s approval for food additives works, and why experts say a loophole allows companies to bypass it	The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates food and health-related products to ensure they’re safe for public health. Today, it’s estimated to oversee 80% of the U.S. food supply. This also places ingredient safety regulations under th...
Jan 13, 2025	HKICPA participates in the Asian Financial Forum 2025: Explores new growth engines in global sustainability	HONG KONG SAR – Wechat: hkicpa_official https://www.instagram.com/hkicpa.official/ The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About HKICPA The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“HKICPA”) is the...
May 22, 2024	AICPA & CIMA CEO Announces Retirement	Barry Melancon, American Institute of CPAs President & CEO and Association of International Certified Professional Accountants Chief Executive, to step down after 30 years of service to the profession NEW YORK, May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/...
Nov 3, 2022	Tech can aid accounting profession take lead industry role	From left: IFAC president Alan Johnson, former SAIPA board chairperson Kantha Naicker, and SAIPA CEO Shahied Daniels. In the age of digital and technological change, the accounting profession needs to evolve towards performing advisory func...
Sep 22, 2022	Accounting body tailor-makes digital hub for members	Unless professional accountants embrace the rapid advancements of technology and digital transformation, they risk not being relevant in their employ and in servicing clients. This is according to Shahied Daniels, CEO of the South African I...
Jul 18, 2022	Riding High on SEA's E-Commerce Revolution: 68% of eBay-enabled SMEs Export to 10 or More International Markets - Report	eBay's "Southeast Asia Small Online Business Trade Report 2022" showed the region's eBay-enabled small businesses made sales in 214 international markets in 2020, spurring the growth of global retailers SINGAPORE, July 18, 2022 /P...
Dec 16, 2021	So You Want to be a Non-Executive Director?	Not many children grow up with the career ambition to be a non-executive director. However, many businesspeople, and indeed executive directors, start to think towards the end of their careers, that being a non-exec could be a next step. I ...
Nov 30, 2021	Instant Cross-Border Payments Will Soon Become a Reality in APAC	Rapid adoption of instant payments and the proliferation of national real-time payment rails are making Asia-Pacific (APAC) a leader in real-time transfers. This, coupled with efforts to make cross-border payments faster and most efficient,...
Oct 7, 2021	Funding Societies raises US$18m Debt from Japanese and Singaporean Impact Investors, on track to raise US$120m	SINGAPORE, Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Funding Societies, Southeast Asia's largest SME digital financing platform, today announced that it has raised US$18 million in debt led by a trio syndicate of financial institutions including Helicap...
Oct 4, 2021	Building Better Balance Sheets to Account for Natural Resources	Posted by Bonnie Ann Sirois, Edwin Ng, and Ross Smith [1] In 2018, the IMF's Fiscal Monitor reported that natural resources assets were equal to 38% of GDP in the countries surveyed, reinforcing the scale and importance of natural resources...
Sep 22, 2021	Tax Changes Should be Targeted to Help Covid Recovery and Boost Fight Against Climate Crisis in G20 Countries, According to Accounting Bodies' Research	New joint report from ACCA, CA ANZ, and IFAC finds a fall in public support for international tax collaboration despite recent corporation tax agreement Sep 22, 2021 \| New York, NY \| English Tax incentives should be used to enable positive ...
Sep 22, 2021	Public Trust in Tax: Surveying Public Trust in G20 Tax Systems	Developing the Accountancy Profession Public Trust in Tax: Surveying Public Trust in G20 Tax Systems IFAC Sep 22, 2021 \| Guidance & Support Tools English A 2021 joint report from Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Ch...
Jul 28, 2021	Can Public Sector Accountants Help Save the World? Yes We Can – and Here's Why.	The clock is ticking ever more loudly in two interconnected areas that impact on us all. 'Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal,' according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and it is proceedin...
Jun 15, 2021	IFAC International Federation of Accountants : How Can Your Firm Harness the Potential of Gen Z in the Workplace?	ACCA / IFAC Research Highlights 10 Recommendations for Employers As Generation Z (presently, 18-25 years of age) comes of age and joins the working world, ACCA and IFAC undertook research into the key issues facing this generation's emergin...
Jun 3, 2021	Empowering CFOs to Drive Climate Action	Dealing with climate change is non-negotiable for business. A transition to low-carbon economies is underway with politicians, regulators, institutional investors and asset managers rapidly committing to net zero emissions by 2050. My compa...
May 25, 2021	Protecting the Legacy of Family-Owned MSME Businesses – Advancing Economic Growth & Job Creation	According to the World Bank Group, around the world roughly 90 per cent of all enterprises are micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSME), which include around 50 per cent of the labor force. MSMEs play a vital role in national econom...
May 3, 2021	IFAC International Federation of Accountants : How Islamic Finance Can Facilitate Public Finance Recovery & Growth	For governments and professional accountancy organizations (PAO) alike, 2020 was, simply put, challenging, and these difficulties have continued in 2021. Budgets have been cut, monetary easing has been unparalleled, and debt has exploded in...
Oct 8, 2020	Crunch Time: Global Standard Setters Set The Scene For Comprehensive Corporate Reporting	In March of this year I wrote about how to establish a global set of standards for companies to report on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance—or so-called “nonfinancial information.”
May 26, 2020	IFAC International Federation of Accountants : As Financial Crimes Grow during the Pandemic, Accounting Groups Address Key Piece of AML Action	Report from CPA Canada and IFAC analyzes best approaches to beneficial ownership transparency May 26, 2020 \| English As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented sums of relief money moving across the global economy, the threa...

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FAQ about IFAC

When was IFAC founded?

IFAC was founded in 1977.

What has the press written about IFAC?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning IFAC, among them “HKICPA renews its Mutual Recognition Agreement with ACCA” (Jun 27, 2025) and “How the FDA’s approval for food additives works, and why experts say a loophole allows companies to bypass it” (Feb 23, 2025).

Is IFAC still active?

Yes, IFAC is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 6, 2026.