History
The IFA was established in 1916 and is the oldest non-chartered accountancy body in the world.
A timeline of key dates in the history of the IFA and its predecessor bodies is:
- 1916–c1966: Institute of Book-keepers
- c1967–1974: Institute of Book-keepers and Related Data Processing
- 1974–1982: Institute of Administrative Accounting and Data Processing
- 1982–1987: Institute of Administrative Accountants
- 1988 to present : Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA)
On 3 June 2009, the Federation of Tax Advisers (FTA) merged with the IFA to become part of the IFA Group.
Read more about this topic: Institute Of Financial Accountants
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“If usually the “present age” is no very long time, still, at our pleasure, or in the service of some such unity of meaning as the history of civilization, or the study of geology, may suggest, we may conceive the present as extending over many centuries, or over a hundred thousand years.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)
“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.”
—Pierre Bayle (1647–1706)