KOREA

7th Flr. Borim Bldg. Myung-dong 1-ga 5-1, Jung-ku, Seoul, South Korea
TEL. NO: 82 2 7558670
FAX NO: 82 2 755 8672

PRESIDENT: Sang-Hoon Kim
E-MAIL ADDRESS:webmaster@cfokorea.org
OFFICE TEL. NO: 02 755 8670

- Various regular meetings, seminars and forums like Monthly KCFO Annual Conference, KCFO Luncheon Meeting, Monthly CFO Breakfast Seminar are organized to address key issues and timely appropriate topics facing CFOs and to provide networking opportunities among members.

- To supply the knowledge and information related to CFOs, KCFO publishes research papers and Quarterly Journal “CFO”.

- KCFO organizes annually the ‘CFO Award Judging Committee’ which screens CFOs from 1,700 listed and non-listed companies which have sales volume of at least KRW 500 billion and profit of KRW 50 billion. The 5 winners of the CFOs of the Year are announced every November and KCFO hosts the Annual CFO Awards Ceremony in December.

- Certifications
Certified Treasury Professionals
KCFO has exclusive licensing agreement for CTP (Certified Treasury Professionals) exam in Korea with AFP of USA. The CTP candidates in Korea are the treasury or finance personnel from top ranked blue chip companies in Korea like Korea Telecom, POSCO, LG Electronics, Shinhan Bank, Goodmorning Securities Co., and certified public accountants (CPAs) of accounting firms.
Local Treasury Professionals
Beginning 2008 KCFO certifies local treasury professionals. KCFO has partnership agreement with Webcash, the top treasury consulting firm in Korea for the publication of local treasury textbooks and the management of local treasury professional online exams.
Extensible Business Reporting Language
KCFO played the key role in accelerating the use of XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) and prepared XBRL accounting taxonomy according to Korean GAAP as XBRL Korea Jurisdiction. Since October 2002, KCFO has been designated as an ‘XBRL Korea Jurisdiction’ from ‘XBRL International’ in US.

- Promotion of congresses in collaboration with IAFEI