Introduction
The Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) represents national accountancy organisation in the Asia-Pacific region. Today, CAPA has a membership of 34 accountancy organisations in 24 jurisdictions. CAPA is by far the largest regional accountancy organisation and its geographical area spans half the globe!
The idea of CAPA was conceived at the First Far East Conference of Accountants that was held from November 28 to December 1, 1957 in Manila, Philippines. However, it was only in 1976 that the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants was formally established.
Kamlesh Shivji Vikamsey became President of Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants (CAPA) in October 2007.
Mr. Vikamsey has been a practicing Chartered Accountant since 1982 and is Senior Partner at Khimji Kunverji & Co, Chartered Accountants in Bombay, a member firm of HLB International.
Mr. Vikamsey is also Board Member of International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and Member of its Planning & Finance Committee.
CAPA Presidents
For a list of CAPA Presidents that have served since CAPA's inception in September 1976 to October 2007. Click here. more>>
Mission & Objectives
The mission of CAPA is to provide leadership in the development, enhancement and coordination of the accountancy profession in the Asia-Pacific region to enable the profession to provide services of consistently high quality in the public interest.
1957 Inception of CAPA at the first Far East Conference of Accountants. This was held in Manila, Philippines on November 28 to December 1, 1957.
1960 Change of name from the Far East Conference of Accountants to the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants.
1973 Formation of the Executive Committee to look into the formalisation of CAPA as a regional federation complete with a constitution, president and secretariat.
At the Assembly of Delegates held on May 23, 2004, CAPA members elected the new Executive Committee (Excom) for the term of May 2004 to October 2007.
On 8 October 1996, the Assembly of Delegates adopted the revised CAPA Constitution which re-aligns CAPA's mission and objectives to members' aspirations and current developments in the international arena.
In recognistion of the increasing number of members who are actively participating in CAPA's activities, CAPA enlarged the Excom from the previous 9 countries seats to up to 12 country seats.more>>
Members Category At present there are three categories of CAPA membership: ordinary membership, associate membership and affiliate membership. The Executive Committee (Excom) is given the authority to admit organisations into CAPA.more>>
CAPA Conference CAPA holds regular conferences that bring together members of the profession from the Asia Pacific region and various other parts of the world. Such conferences are organised at least three times in any ten-year period. Any member country may bid to host the conference.
This will undoubtedly be a major accounting event for the Asia-Pacific region and will bring together members and conference participants from all over the world.
Kamlesh Shivji Vikamsey
