Welcome to the Common Content Project
In response to the globalisation of business activity, the single market and regulatory harmonisation, nine of Europe's leading accountancy Institutes are working together to bring their professional qualifications closer together.
The ‘Common Content Project' seeks to unify, as far as possible, the professional entry-level qualifications of the participating Institutes, while ensuring that those qualifications remain high level and meet changing public expectations. The Project maximises the common elements of the professional qualifications while retaining national elements unique to each country.
The participating Institutes have developed an approach to Common Content that focuses on the following services provided by professional accountants:
assurance and related services (ARS);
performance measurement and reporting (PMR);
strategic and business management (SBM);
financial management (FM); and
taxation and legal services (TLS).
The Institutes have agreed the learning outcomes that entry-level professional accountants need to achieve and the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to acquire in order to provide these services. The approved Project Documents can be accessed here.
STOP PRESS: Press Release 26 November 2008 - the participating Institutes have taken a significant further step towards harmonising their qualifications for membership while ensuring that those qualifications remain high quality and meet changing public expectations and the demands of clients and employers...read more here.