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SAFA accepts recommendation of the ICAI for forming SAFA Women Empowerment Committee and replicating the digital
initiatives of ICAI. - (14-05-2018)

SAFA accepts recommendation of the ICAI for forming SAFA Women Empowerment
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Accountant professionals in a digitally driven era and its impact on Accounting and Assurance. The Board has also decided to
adopt and promote Digital Competency Maturity Model (DCMM) of ICAI for Professional Accounting Firms amongst the SAFA
member bodies. DCMM is an endeavour to provide a set of minimum requirements which the firms can evaluate on a self-
assessment basis and build a strategy for up skilling, to leverage the opportunities which will unfold in the digital era.

About SAFA

South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) is an Apex Body of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation
(SAARC) and an Acknowledged Accountancy Grouping of IFAC. SAFA comprises of ten accountancy bodies in South-Asian
Region namely India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan. Bhutan and Maldives, where no accountancy
body exists, has been given an Observer status. SAFA has undertaken the leadership role in providing a new direction to the
accountancy profession within the region and this Apex body has nearly 375,000 members affiliated with its member bodies.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India is one of the founder members of SAFA and also hosts its Permanent
Secretariat at New Delhi.

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