Republic of the Philippines Commission On Audit Commonweoth Avenue, Quezon Cily, Phépeines Dec 18 20171 COA MEMORANDUM NO. 2017-022 All Assistant Commissioners, Cluster/Office/Regional Directors and all concerned This Commission SUBJECT Accreditation of the Commission on Audit as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) provider DATE 12 December 2017 ‘The Commission on Audit (COA) thru its training arm, the Professional Development Office (PDO) of the Professional and Institutional Development Sector, applied for accreditation as Continuing Professional Development (CPD) provider in June 8, 2017, COA's application was taken up and aporoved during the meeting of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) CPD Council for Accountancy last July 10, 2017 but the Certificate of Accreditation was released to the PDO only on December 12, 2017. The Commission, including all training providers in the Commission such as the Regional Training Units, and all other COA offices offering accounting and auditing courses, is now an accredited CPD Provider with Accreditation No. 2009-017. However, each training program/course/seminar to be conducted are still required to be applied for accreditation with the PRCIPRC Regional Office for their assessment and evaluation of CPD Credit Units (C.U,) that may be earned by COA's CPA attendees/participants. Henceforth and in view of the foregoing, the following instructions are hereby made: 1. The COA Regional Offices (ROs) and all other COA offices which initiate and conduct accounting, auditing and public financial management courses should apply for accreditation of their respective programs/courses/seminars. 2. Applications for accreditations of these programs/courses/seminars should be submitted to PRC or their respective PRC Regional Offices-CPD Council for Accountancy at least forty- five (45) days prior to their conduct citing the above-mertioned accreditation number of the Commission for this purpose. 3. The submitted application for accreditation should indicate the number of times the program/course/seminar will be offered. 4. Within thirty (30) calendar days after an accredited CPD program has been conducted, the concerned RO or COA Office, as the case may be, should submit to the PRC a duly: notarized Completion Report, with a copy to the PDO. 5. Since the accreditation of a CPD Program/Course Seminar! is valid for one year only, the concerned COA Regional and other COA offices should submit again an application for accreditation of Programs/Courses/Seminars whose validity for accrecitation has expired or lapsed, 4 1Al other concerried offices should designate a staff decicated to attend to CPD-related activities with the following information also to be submitted to the PDO: Name (designated staff to attend to CPD-related activities) Position Office/Division Contact number(s) = E-mail address PDO has assigned a staff to handle CPD-related activities. She can be reached at ‘Telephone Nos. 931-7586 and 931-7847 or email address coapdo.cpd@amail.com. Visit the PRC website for other details and downloadableffilable forms at htto:/www.pre.gov ph/uploaded/documents/CPA CPDprovider.pdf For guidance and compliance of all concemed. MICHAEL G. AGUINALDO Chairperson ‘MM