May 21, 2018

Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye has commended calls made by the Institute of Chartered Accounts – Ghana (ICAGH) to help maintain high standard in the accounting profession when they called on him.

According to the Speaker, professionalism should be self regulatory and those in every profession know best how that high standard can be achieved.

He recounted that the medical and legal profession throughout the world, a lot of undesirable persons may want to creep into the profession, self regulations has a lot to do with professional pride.

“If you want to become one of us, this is the way you have to behave and these are the standards you have to adhere to, that is the way to sustain the respect of any such profession”, he said.  Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye has commended calls made by the Institute of Chartered Accounts – Ghana (ICAGH) to help maintain high standard in the accounting profession when they called on him.

According to the Speaker, professionalism should be self regulatory and those in every profession know best how that high standard can be achieved.

He recounted that the medical and legal profession throughout the world, a lot of undesirable persons may want to creep into the profession, self regulations has a lot to do with professional pride.

“If you want to become one of us, this is the way you have to behave and these are the standards you have to adhere to, that is the way to sustain the respect of any such profession”, he said.

The Speaker made this remarks when the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAGH), Christian Sottie and his counterpart Nick Parker, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountant England and Wales (ICAEW) paid a courtesy call on him.

Parliament being a House of accountability would be very much interested in what the accountants are doing, again we are very proud of the work the Public Account Committee (PAC) is doing, he said.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

The Speaker made this remarks when the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana (ICAGH), Christian Sottie and his counterpart Nick Parker, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountant England and Wales (ICAEW) paid a courtesy call on him.
Parliament being a House of accountability would be very much interested in what the accountants are doing, again we are very proud of the work the Public Account Committee (PAC) is doing, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com