NEW ZEALAND LEADS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 June 1936, Page 6

NEW ZEALAND LEADS

PROGRESS IN ACCOUNTANCY Observation of accountancy affairs in Australia convinced Mr G. W. Reid (a delegate to the Australian Congress on Accounting) that in the matter of organisation the profession in the Dominion was in the iead. He mentioned in Wellington recently that he had read a statement of a leading Australian accountant that the • .attainment of true professional statu? in Australia had been seriously retarded through the existence of a multiplicity of competing associations of accountants. That reviewer held that accountancy could never become a profession in the full sense until uniformity of control and co-ordina-tion of effort had been achieved. That opinion was supported by a Dr eminent member of the Chartered Institute, who had remarked to Mr Reid that the setting up of a chartered body had not helped matters. “If we had been able to foresee some of the difficulties,” the Australian Had said. “I doubt whether we would have been so keen about getting a charter. It has pushed uniformity further off than ever.” Mr Reid also ascertained that none of the Australian organisations assumed any responsibility for the education of the student. They neither provided him with educational facilities nor exercised any suDervisicn over the facilities that existed; nor did they seek the assistance of the Universities. Tin's information cave Mr Reid an opening for an address on the deve0f Zealand Society and its provision for the satisfactory education of students in co-operation with the University.