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The Certified Public Accountants (CPA) designation is the most commonly used designation for professional accountants. One million qualified accountants worldwide are CPAs. CPA Ireland was founded in 1926 and its members work in accountancy firms, the public sector, the financial services, and other private sector businesses.
The council is the highest governance organ of the institute. It determines strategy and policy, and consists of 23 members. [9] The bye-laws provide for a geographical spread of council members between the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain and for a balance between members in practice and members in business.
Ireland was a separate kingdom ruled by King George III of Britain; he set policy for Ireland through his appointment of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or viceroy. In practice, the viceroys lived in England and the affairs in the island were largely controlled by an elite group of Irish Protestants known as "undertakers."
Key dates in ACCA history include: [7] 1909: Ethel Ayres Purdie is elected as the first female associate member of an accounting professional body. [8] 1917: London Association of Accountants is the first UK professional body to examine tax. 1930: London Association of Accountants successfully campaigned for the right to audit companies.
The Anglo-Irish Trade War (also called the Economic War) was a retaliatory trade war between the Irish Free State and the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1938. [1] The Irish government refused to continue reimbursing Britain with land annuities from financial loans granted to Irish tenant farmers to enable them to purchase lands under the Irish Land Acts in the late nineteenth century, a provision ...
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1 January – John Crowley, medical doctor, member 1st Dáil representing North Mayo (born 1870). 18 January – Joseph Devlin, Nationalist politician and MP in the British House of Commons and in Northern Ireland (born 1872). April – Robert McCall, lawyer (born 1849). 29 September – Patrick S. Dinneen, lexicographer and historian (born 1860).
1 July – George Shiels' play The New Gossoon is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. 28 August – a painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, found in an Irish cottage, is authenticated. 17 November – W. B. Yeats' 1-act play The Words Upon The Window Pane is premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. [3]