Asad Ali Shah was elected on Tuesday (November 4) Vice-Chairman of the inter-governmental working group of experts on International Standards on Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) of UNCTAD, United Nations, based in Geneva.
ISAR is one of the most important and largest groups of accounting community within the aegis of United Nations that endeavours to enhance quality of financial reporting, corporate disclosure and transparency.
Its participants include, besides experts from government- people from ministries of finance, auditor general's departments), representatives of global standard-setters, regulators, professional bodies, organisations such as IFAC, IASB, EU regulators.-PR