IAFEI MEMBERS INSTITUTES

ACTIVITIES:

• Publication and distribution of its quarterly magazine "The Financial Executive"
• Organization of Financial Lunches
• Organization of a Financial Cocktail
• Organization of Vlerick FEIB-CFO Club Evening Events
• Promotion of congresses in collaboration with IAFEI

ACTIVITIES:

• Membership
  • Developing the nation-wide network of CACFO and enlarging the membership
  • Improving the quality of services to meet diversified requirements of the membership
• Research
  • Carrying out cooperative research on development of CFO's leadership and capability
  • Offering professional consultancy for the membership through Committees of experts
  • Launching the research on Management Accounting
• Advocacy
  • Making proposals to legislative and administrative bodies to build CFO profession
  • Making proposals to legislative and administrative bodies as of the system construction of Management Accounting profession
• Training
  • Delivering domestic as well as overseas training programs for members
  • Updating members with the development of global economy as well as financial profession
• Accreditation
  • Pushing ahead with the accreditation of financial profession
  • Enhancing supervision and management of the accreditation projects
• International Exchange
  • Promotion of congresses in collaboration with IAFEI
  • Co-organizing event with IAFEI member institutes

ACTIVITIES:

• Domestic and International Seminars/Meetings with
  • Non-profit institutes: The Bankers Association, The Securities Association, The Life Insurance Association, Monte Jade Technology Association, Private Equity & Merger/Acquisition Association, Venture Capital Association, Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Council for Industrial & Commercial Developments, Columbia Alumni Association, CFA Association, Emerging Market Association
  • Academia: Universities, Academia Sinica, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Battelle / 360ip
  • Government Agent & Authorities: Financial Supervisory Commission, Ministry of Finance, Stock Exchanges, US Department of Commerce
  • Professional Service Providers: big 4 accounting firms, law firms, appraisal firms
  • Corporations & Financial Institutions: commercial bank, insurance companies, securities houses, fund managers, ICT companies, Biotech companies
  • Media: Commercial Times, Economics Daily, Business Weekly, Marbo Weekly, Fortune Bi-Monthly
• Special Annual Project: How to evaluate corporations’ health by in-depth analyzing financial statements
  • A task force including professors, accountants, CFOs, lawyers, and appraisers
  • Two case studies every month
  • A book, which will be published after the Special Annual Project, will include case studies, methodologies, macro and micro analysis, independent director’s role and responsibilities, fraud prevention and pre-caution, risk managements, social responsibilities, etc.

ACTIVITIES:

• Conferences and round-table discussions
  • Over 300 events are organized per year all over France
  • A yearly, 2 days, CFO conferences (Financium, www.dfcg-financium.fr), with a special award for “the CFO of the Year” www.tropheedudirecteurfinancier.net
  • Friendly meetings or "get-togethers" are organized between French and foreign Financial Executives Institutes
• Publications
  • Monthly magazine "Finance & Gestion"
  • Books of the "DFCG Collection" published by "Les Editions d'Organisation”
  • Technical memorandum called "Point de vue"
  • The DFCG Blog, Vox-fi, www.voxfi.fr, (in French)
  • DFCG Mag, Internal magazine of the association for its members
• Information on job offerings
  • A Job Bank is provided to members and a Resume Bank offers free posting.
• A DFCG International Group
  • Focal point for international questions from French CFO's in DFCG
  • Contact point for foreign CFO's and foreign institutes
  • Events on international matters
  • Active participation in IAFEI

ACTIVITIES:

• Workshops
  • Workshops are regularly conducted, which deal with various topics such as capital markets, leasing, financial accounting, as well as treasury functions in multi-divisional companies. Newly established is the workshop on Medium Sized Corporations Financial Matters. Short half day working meetings are held, when needed, on current issues.
  • 2013:  Subjects of special interest will be: Financing and investing in very low interest rate scenarios, the steady advance of corporate bond financing versus corporate debt financing via bank loans, pension scheme concerns against the background of ongoing low interest rates, state over-indebtedness and its continued impact on the economy at large, the financial markets and the currency, progress in Basel III and other financial market regulation, including recommendations of the Financial Stability Board, developments in the rating agency industry, progress in establishing regulated exchange platforms for derivatives, ongoing changes to IFRS accounting regulations, and other subjects.
• Management Training
  • GEFIU, in cooperation with the Austrian Financial Executives Institute, organizes every year a one-week seminar for future top managers in the finance area of industrial companies.
• Advocacy
  • Draft legislation of Accounting Modernisation Law, BilMoG
  • IASB exposure draft – ED 9, Joint Arrangements
  • Discussion Paper – Preliminary Views on Amendments to IASB 19, Employee Benefits
  • GEFIU publishes, from time to time, technical commentaries for government authorities, regulatory bodies, politicians.
• Promotion of congresses in collaboration with IAFEI

ACTIVITIES:

Our Mission:

• Our mission is to develop the efficiency of the financial operations management and to enhance its role in Greek enterprises.

Our Objectives:

• To promote and implement the principles of financial management;
• To develop, propagate and apply management of financial functions in Greece;
• To monitor international developments in financial management and apply them to the actual conditions prevailing in Greece today;
• To undertake initiatives, to promote financial management through studies, speeches, publications, educational programs, seminars and researches;
• To promote the exchange of knowledge, views and experiences about financial management on a national and international level;
• To develop close cooperation with equivalent organizations, both in Greece and abroad;
• To create high level of professional consciousness among the financial management executives.

Our Recent Activities:

• Include events on the following topics:

• • Employee benefits, taxes, transfers and performance management;
  • Tax planning;
  • Shipping Conference: “Shipping as a means for economic development of our country”;
  • Greek companies’ exports and ways of financing;
  • Tax regulations applying to individuals and companies;
  • Labor Reform: Market needs and current developments

ACTIVITIES:

• Regular/special meetings
  • Organization of various meetings, panel discussions, and conferences
  • Organization of financial luncheon/dinner
• Conduct of public forums
• Promotion of congresses in collaboration with IAFEI

ACTIVITIES:

• Organization of the 2014 ANDAF Annual Congress
• To be held in Florence on October 24/25, 2014. Title and speakers to be defined.
• NEW PROJECTS:
  • EDUCATION PROJECT

  ANDAF to launch in with success in 2013 a program of education addressed to CFO's and in particular to their collaborators - in order to keep up with the fast evolution in the various fields of our profession. The program in 2014 will be extended to 7 courses (5 in 2013)

  • NEW MASTER CFO COURSES

  New Master CFO courses in collaboration with the Universities of Bologna and Udine are planned to be organized, in addition to the already running similar courses with the Universities of Pisa and Castellanza (Milan).

  • STRENGTHENED PLACEMENT ACTIVITY

  In order to help its members in need of assistance, ANDAF has organized since 2012 a more fine tuned service of job placement, taking advantage of its wide contacts with head hunters and the likes. This program will be enhanced in 2014 with the extention of a program of coaching and of psychological assistance.

• Participation atthe IAFEI Congress in Manila, October 2014
• A strong campaign of advertising to be carried out to ensure numerous groups of ANDAF members will attend the Manila Congress.
• Institutional Standard Activity
  • Hold about 150 events in 2014 spread within the 11 regional chapters of ANDAF, addressing topics of interest to ANDAF members (Finance; Tax; Accounting; Planning & Control; Corporate Governance; Risk Control & Assessment; etc.)
  • Continue and improve the scientific activity of the 6 Technical Committees of ANDAF, namely: Corporate Governance & Compliance; Corporate Finance; Planning & Control; Tax; Financial Reporting Standards; Information & Communication Technology). Start a program of cross-fertilization among the Technical Committees on matters which can be addressed from different point of views.
  • Spread the awareness of ANDAF by utilizing more intensively the various media (TV, radio, press, web)
  • Edit the quarterly ANDAF Magazine

ACTIVITIES:

• Regular Meetings and Conferences
  • Organizes regular CFO Meetings for networking and information exchange
  • Organizes and operates the CFO Forum Japan, which is attended by nearly 500 financial executives.
  • Holds regular CFO Roundtable to provide opportunity for attendees to network with peer CFOs
  • Organizes several technical workshops.
  • Conducts CFO Seminars twice a month to provide members with the most up-to-date trends that finance and accounting professionals should follow
• Accreditation Programs
  • Conducts certification and accreditation examination programs for the development of CFOs JACFO was commissioned by METI with the development of CBT-based examination for finance and accounting skills based on the FASS. The examination was designed to measure the accuracy of knowledge on typical finance, accounting and tax related tasks in the form of a statistically equated, scaled score. It is increasingly recognized as one of the most reliable tools to assess financial capability of employees and outsourced staff including those in shared services.
• Research
  • Conducts investigation and research on various topics on financial management, as well as analyses and surveys on corporate management and finance strategies
• Promotion of congresses in collaboration with IAFEI

ACTIVITIES:

• Organize and promote the exchange of ideas, best practices and experiences
• Set up a permanent support, assistance and advice
• Contribute to the development of the careers of its members
• Lead the Financial and Economic debat
• Promote research in the areas of Finance and Management
• Support national companies in the areas of Finance, Management and tax
• Develop international cooperation with similar Associations
• Organize Seminars and congress
• Provide Informations in the area of Finance, Management and tax

ACTIVITIES:

• The institute has 14 committees organized by discipline, i.e. Treasury, Corporate Finance, Taxes, Corporate Governance, Ethics and Social Responsibility, etc. Each committee holds monthly sessions to discuss key issues of its specialty. Likewise, bulletins and other technical papers are issued and distributed among membership. Articles are contributed to daily papers and monthly magazines, even electronic ones, like CNN México.
• The institute has 20 chapters across Mexico. Each chapter organizes at least one National Conference, Symposium or Forum per year. Besides, monthly events are also organized by each chapter. However, IMEF’s key annual event is the National Convention, which is held every year in the month of November, to which members of each chapter attend to learn, share experiences, etc.

ACTIVITIES:

THEME 2017: LEADING IN FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS

Our theme for 2017 is “Leading in Financial and Economic Reforms”. This theme has been carefully chosen to embody the role that FINEX must embrace in 2017. As we face the many challenges of a new economic order driven by changes in international and domestic rules, policies, concepts and practices, FINEX must not only rise above these challenges but FINEX must be at the center, being a thought leader, a leading advocate, an influencer in the crafting of policies, and an able partner of the government in pushing for a better Philippines.

VISION

• FINEX must continue to be relevant to its main constituency – finance practitioners – by addressing their needs and helping them do their jobs better
• Aside from advancing the practice of the finance profession, the organization should also reach out, influence and shape the state of the financial markets to ensure its vibrancy as an engine of economic growth
• In so doing, the organization will necessarily create a positive influence to economic development that will greatly impact society and uplift the lives of more people.
• This transformational role of FINEX is key in a period of rapid economic growth and greater economic integration, and will help promote sustainable development.

PLANS AND PROGRAMS:

FINEX has significantly expanded its scope and has evolved into what it is today. It has made its presence felt through its various programs and projects that address various issues relevant to the profession. These programs are all good but there is a need to focus and prioritize key areas for maximum impact given that it will be very hard to devote its limited resources towards addressing each and every one of these nice projects. To continue to be relevant to its various constituencies, FINEX needs to focus on three main areas:

• Professional Development is still FINEX’s primary mission. Given that the profession is best represented by the CFO – professional development programs must focus on addressing the key development needs of the CFO as they perform new roles and meet new expectations. These programs should focus on developing those competencies that will enable the CFO to perform the multifaceted roles (using the Deloitte framework) – strategist, catalyst, steward, operator.
• Advocacy Work Given the unique position that finance professionals and practitioners are in, FINEX should continue to focus on high impact advocacy work in advancing financial and economic agenda items that will enhance the practice of the profession and improve overall economic development. Foremost of this is capital market development which FINEX should jointly promote with other professional and industry groups. FINEX must revisit our guidelines to identify the parameters that must be taken into account in coming up with position papers and statements.
• Social and Environmental Impact As a finance-oriented organization, we will continue to promote environmental awareness programs and economic upliftment programs of our various committees. What we should add to our social impact programs are initiatives that will uplift the financial literacy of the majority of Filipinos, now that liquidity continues to be at an all-time-high -- with significant inflows from remittances, BPO activity and tourism receipts.

REGIONAL CHAPTERS:

• Gdańsk
• Poznań
• Wrocław

ACTIVITIES:

• Monthly breakfast (business) meeting in Warsaw
• Monthly newsletter for members
• Yearly gala event (social) in Warsaw
• Irregular regional activities

ACTIVITIES:

Our mission is to strengthen relations of Russian and international financial communities. Integration of financial markets is one of the modern trends in the global economy. Russian Club of Financial Directors contributes to integration processes on capital markets through the development of international relations in the financial sector.

• Consolidation and development of the organization:

  • Open and closed meetings of the Club Conferences and sectoral sessions
  • Seminars and round tables with the participation of representatives of legislative and executive authorities
  • Lectures and personal meetings

ACTIVITIES:

ACTIVITIES:

• One annual International symposium
• Many round-tables
• Ensure trainings
• Partnerships with universities and other associations
• Participating in regional economic events

ACTIVITIES:

• Continue to publish and distribute weekly update of the government’s new policies to members and monthly CFO Vietnam newsletter.
• Monthly meetings for the experiences sharing among members and online discussions on hot issues/topics in finance, economy, accounting and taxes through the “CFO forum” on VCFO website.
• Launching monthly “Coffee Talk” for Enterprise Management Experiences sharing among VCFO Members and Corporate Leaders.
• Organize seminars on financial management, taxes, internal control,...etc for other business associations.
• Partnership with Microsoft Vietnam for 02 seminars focus on “How basic technology can improve flexible work/life”.
• Partnership with Deloitte Vietnam for 02 seminars focus on “Tax Management”.
• Cooperate with Japan Association for CFOs (JACFO) and ACCA Vietnam in organizing the Vietnam CFO Forum 2014 (November 2014)
• Training activities:
  • Continually organize Professional CFO Training Programs
  • Short training courses in Finance for Financial Executives
  • Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for Corporate Leaders
  • Partnership with Associations to organize the Program of Corporate Finance Management for SMEs upwards the trend of Enterprise Development Department, Ministry of Planning & Investment (MPI).
• Implement FASS Universal project in Vietnam.
• Conducted a CFO survey in order to organize supporting activities to VCFO’s members.
• Promote the 44th IAFEI World Congress to Vietnam CFOs.