The Glossary has been prepared by the International Center for Accounting Reform (ICAR).
The Glossary has been prepared by the International Center for Accounting Reform (ICAR) covering Accounting, Audit and financial terminology in use throughout most industries and economic sectors. To compile the Glossary, ICAR undertook a wide consultation exercise with interested parties and used terminology of its previous publications of its partner organizations and the IAS Glossary of Terms, terminology of the International standards of audit and Code of ethics for professional accountants (IFAC) and Audit Terms Glossary (Moscow, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2001) edited by professor Leonid Z. Schneidman.
ICAR is supported by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID which includes the Know How Fund) and private sector contributions, notably organized by the Foreign Investment Advisory Council (FIAC) and the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia.
