Prime Minister of Armenia awarded certificates to the graduates of the Association of Acccountants and auditors of Armenia

YEREVAN, October 14. /ARKA/. On Wednesday Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan awarded certuificates to the graduates of the Association of Accountants and Auditors of Armenia.

"Accountants have an important mission in Armenia and we should invest international financial standards in Armenia”, said Sargsyan during his visit to the Association of Accountants and Auditors of Armenia and CJSC “National institute of standards”.

Mels Petrosyan, the head of the Association said that certificates are awarded to 105 specialists, from which 32 in the sphere of audit, 49 graduates received qualification of accountants and 24 – book-keepers. At present, 13 companies are included in Learning-Editorial Center of the Association which provides accounting services to the representatives of small and medium businesses.

“About 250 small and medium enterprises have already used the services of the Center and their number is increasing day-by-day. Thanks to the new price policy, we expect involvement of new companies in the activities of the Center”, said Petrosyan.

Haykanush Bagratunyan, representative of USAID said that they are supporting the Association for already 10 years and are glad that it provides qualified training of Armenian auditors and accountants. The Association publishes newspapers, journals and books. They organize professional, technical and other specialized short-term courses, training, retraining, double training and organization of standards, expertise and certificates for relevance of standards, organization of control and quality assurance.  -0-