Continuing professional education as an essence to professional competency

Much have been mentioned about the accounting profession and the accountants ability to remain professionally competent. Rapid change, however, has time and again affected the confidence of the professionally competent accountants. The profession had been tested and continues to be severely tested in the technological and the legal environment. The length and breath of which knowledge are expanding makes CPE rather indispensable if one is to remain competent. Nevertheless, CPE programmes needed to be assessed and implemented in a proper manner. In addition, the backing of professional accounting bodies is essential to ensure that it will be effective. An impetus to the effectiveness might be "making mandatory CPE" into reality. As time passed by, the trend is towards making CPE mandatory . It reflects the importance of CPE in order to enhance professional competency.