LCPAA Membership:Why to be a member of LCPAA?
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Benefit of member
- Being a primary member or practicing associate member of LCPAA means you have meet basic requirement to be eligible to practice as chief accountants or CFO in business especially in public interest entities and large-sized enterprises (as indicated in the article 58 of the Accounting Law 2013), and as manager or partner in public practice in Lao PDR in accordance with the Independent Audit Law. In addition, with the new Lao CPA qualification in line with International Education Standards, a Lao CPA who passed through this process would be recognized in the region.
- Being a non-practicing associate member, you will get some advantage to access some training materials and get some discount to attend professional workshop, seminar or training that would facilitate you to improve your ethical and professional knowledge and skills.
How to become a member?
- To be a primary member or practicing associate member of LCPAA, the candidate should be a Lao CPA, which means he\she complete CPA training and passed 3 years practical training as stated in the Independent Audit Law. Those holding CPA certificate from abroad, could be admitted as Lao CPA when his\her CPA curriculum is accredited by LCPAA, and they should complete also an aptitude test concerning Lao business-related regulations. To apply for that the candidate should fill up an application form and submit all related documents to prove satisfactory to all requirements.
- To be a non-practicing member of LCPAA, there is no pre-requisite, except you have to pay membership fee.
Member Category
Amended by-law, CPA and CPD regulations of LCPAA, which is in line with International Education Standards, and SMOs of IFAC allow LCPAA to operate in logical manner to gradually achieve its goal of being a trustworthy profession for the public interest.
The LCPAA’s membership consists of three categories:
The LCPAA’s membership consists of three categories:
- Ordinary,
- Associate and
- Honorary members