PQF SUMMIT:

EDUCATION PRACTICE
Embracing the Role of PQF in the Accountancy Profession

Technical Session 1:
UNDERSTANDING PQF
IN THE EDUCATION PRACTICE
Program Objective and Learning Outcome

PO: To discuss professional development and PQF in the context

of the education practice

LO: To identify the levels and domains in the competency

framework for the education practice, with reference to Career
Progression and Specialization Program (CPSP) PRBOA
Resolution [DRAFT]

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Let’s get to know our participants

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Results of Preliminary Survey

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Let’s learn more about PQF-CPSP

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BSA per
CMO 27

CPD

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(CMO 27 [2017])

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Context SHS
CHED PRC

STUDENT

IPD PRBOA
(~525 HEIs)

Graduates Examination CPD

Public Practice,
Commerce and Industry,
Education/ Academe,
Government

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Context

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The Future (pending approval)

RA
RA 10968 ▪ RA 10968 – PQF Act
10912 ▪ RA 10912 – CPD Act of 2016
▪ RA 9298 – Philippine Accountancy Act of 2004
RA
9298

Career Progression and Specialization Program (CPSP) ▪ Career progression in professional life
for the Accountancy Profession ▪ Specialization
▪ Scope of Practice of Accountancy

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The Future (pending approval)
Philippine Qualifications
Framework
PQF – describes the levels of educational
qualifications and sets the standards for
CPD
qualification outcomes. It is a quality assured
national system for the development, recognition
and award of qualifications based on standards of IPD
knowledge, skills and values acquired in different
ways and methods by learners and workers of the
country (RA 10968).

Qualification – refers to a formal certification that

a person has successfully achieved specific
learning outcomes relevant to the identified
academic, industry or community requirements
(IRR of RA 10968).

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The Future (pending approval)
Career Education/
Academe

Pathways of the
Accountancy
Profession

PP, CIP, GP

(PRBOA, 2021)

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The Future (pending approval) ✔ Level 6
✔ Level 7
✔ Level 8
Career Progression & Specialization Program (CPSP)

Education Government
Practice Practice

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The Future (pending approval) ✔ Level 6
✔ Level 7
✔ Level 8
Career Progression & Specialization Program (CPSP)

Public Commerce &

Practice Industry
Practice

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Commerce and
PRACTICE Education Practice
Industry Practice
Public Practice Government Practice

Teaching Technical Competence Asset Control

Research Business Acumen Financial Reporting

Social Integration Leadership and Governance Change Management

DOMAINS
na na Social Relations na

Ethics and Integrity (Core)

Information and Communications Technology

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Poll Questions
❖ True or False. The highest level in the competency
framework for the education sector is eight (8).

❖ True or False. Teaching is to knowledge co-creation as

research is into knowledge transfer.

❖ True or False. Ethics and integrity is not among the domains

in the competency framework for the education practice.

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Let’s unpack the levels, outcomes
domains, and competency areas

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Career Progression &
Specialization
Program (CPSP)
Pending Approval

For CPAs in Education Practice

▪ 3 Levels
▪ 3 Outcomes
▪ 5 Domains [D]
▪ 12 Competency Areas [CA]

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Professional
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Practice Outcomes
Degree of Knowledge, Skills and
Independence Values
Professional
Practice
Outcomes

Application

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Practice Outcomes
LEVEL 7
Level
Qualification Code PACC 70411-4
Certificate of Advanced Professional
Qualification Title Accountancy in Education
Practice/Academe
Descriptor The advanced level of Professional
Accountancy in Education
Practice/Academe provides advanced
practice in accounting education
including teaching and research that
requires initiative, creativity,
substantial degree of independence,
leadership in teams and in
multi/inter-disciplinary fields.
LEVEL 8
PACC 80411-4
Certificate of Expert Professional
Accountancy in Education
Practice/Academe
The highly specialized level of Expert
Professional Accountancy in Education
Practice/Academe provides higher level
modalities in teaching, research,
training and development and
administration that requires specialized
cognitive, technical and research,
managerial and executive competence.

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Practice Outcomes
LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8

Demonstrated highly advanced

Knowledge, Skills and Demonstrated advanced knowledge and
skills in a specialized or multidisciplinary
Values field of study for professional practice,
self-directed research and/or lifelong
learning acquired as a post-baccalaureate
graduate of Accountancy, or any related
field, in any CHED recognized school in
the Philippines, has a valid license for
Certified Public Accountants given by PRC
and PRBOA, and with at least five
(5) years of experience.
systematic knowledge and skills in a
highly specialized and/or complex
multi-disciplinary field of learning for
complex research and or professional
practice and/or for the advancement of
learning acquired as a doctoral or
post-doctoral graduate of Accountancy, or
any related field, in any CHED recognized
school in the Philippines, has a valid
license for Certified Public Accountants
given by PRC and PRBOA, and with at
least ten (10) years of experience

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Practice Outcomes
LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8

Application in professional works that

Application
Application in professional works that
require self-direction and/or leadership in
the practice of the Accountancy
profession in the education sector
require professional leadership for
innovation and/or development
management in highly specialized or
multidisciplinary fields in the practice of
the Accountancy profession across
group/s of companies or divisions in the
education sector.

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Practice Outcomes
LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8

Full independence in individual work

Degree of High substantial degree of
independence that involves
and/or in teams of multidisciplinary and
more complex setting that demands
Independence exercise of leadership and
leadership for creativity and strategic
initiative in individual work or in
value added. Significant level of expertise
teams of multi-disciplinary field
based autonomy and accountability

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Teaching (Knowledge Research (Knowledge Social Integration Ethics Information and

Transferor) Co-creator) Communications
(Social Agent) & Integrity (Core) Technology

Curriculum Design (CA1) Research Collaborations Social Integration (CA10) Ethics and Integrity (CA11) Information and
and Mentoring (CA7) Communications
Design of Program
Research Agenda (CA8) Technology (CA12)
Offerings (CA2)
Research Publication and
Teacher Administration
Review (CA9)
(CA3)
Administration of Academic
Units (CA4)
Assessment of Outcomes
(CA5)

Communications (CA6)

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Domains Level 7
Teaching [D1] Supervises peers and delivers instructions to
learners by applying both technical
knowledge and pedagogical skills
Research [D2] Conducts research and manages effectively
the research activities of peers and students
in the program
Social Integration [D3] Applies good corporate citizenship
principles as member of the organization
and the community to improve business
practices and community well-being
Ethics and Integrity [D4] Applies ethical principles as member of the
organization and the community to improve
accounting practices
Information and Uses appropriate ICT, tools, and
Communications Technology techniques for delivery of instruction,
[D5] conduct of research, management of
accounting programs, and monitoring of
social engagement projects
Level 8
Manages an academic program by applying
both technical and pedagogical knowledge
Conducts research and manages effectively the
research activities of the academic program.
Formulates good corporate citizenship
programs beneficial to the organization and the
community.
Applies ethical principles as leader of the
organization and the community to improve
accounting practices.
Recommends appropriate ICT, tools and
techniques for delivery of instruction,
conduct of research, management of
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social engagement projects.
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Pending Approval
Domain [1]: Teaching Competency Area [1]: Curriculum Design

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Designs a curriculum.
● Reviews and revises outcome-based instructional
objectives and course outline/syllabus prepared by
the teachers.
● Reviews and evaluates the lesson packages and
instructional modules for alignment with the course
outline/syllabus and instructional objectives.

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Domain [1]: Teaching Competency Area [2]: Design of Program Offerings

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Revises/updates a curricular program to keep it
relevant to current times.
● Prepares feasibility studies to propose new program
offerings.
● Designs a mechanism to systematically secure
inputs from industry and other stakeholders for
program reviews and identification of gaps in
competencies.

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Domain [1]: Teaching Competency Area [3]: Teacher Administration

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Leads people effectively and produces desired
results.
● Resolves disputes effectively with due process.
● Evaluates the teachers’ delivery of the lessons and
classroom management and provides timely
constructive feedback.

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Domain [1]: Teaching Competency Area [4]: Administration of Academic Units

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Designs appropriate faculty or student development programs
according to the needs of the educational institution.
● Builds a high-performance culture focused on desired results
● Evaluates team members’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and
recommends interventions accordingly.
● Assesses, evaluates, and measures academic and financial
performance of academic units handled.
● Adopts measures, plans, implements, measures, and monitors
business performance to ensure sustainable value creation.
● Crafts programs and projects using appropriate tools and
approaches such as "balanced scorecard."

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Domain [1]: Teaching Competency Area [5]: Assessment of Outcomes

LEVEL 7
● Reviews the table of specifications.
● Finalizes outcomes-based departmental
examinations.
● Evaluates the teachers’ quantitative and qualitative ● Monitors, assesses and institutes mentoring
assessment of students’ academic performance.
● Monitors students and identifies those to be
referred to academic support programs.
● Designs and implements procedures for the
conduct of valid and reliable assessments.
LEVEL 8
● Designs, implements, and assesses academic
support programs in terms of impact on student
performance.
programs for faculty with low student performance
outcomes.

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Domain [1]: Teaching Competency Area [6]: Communications

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Evaluates teachers’ competency in the English language ● Develops programs to improve competency of unit
(the lingua franca of business) specifically in presenting, members (faculty and students) in the English language
discussing, reporting and defending views effectively (the lingua franca of business).
through formal, informal, written and spoken ● Develops programs to provide cross-cultural sensitivity
communications. training.
● Mentors teachers to work with others in a consultative
process, to withstand and resolve conflict and to
negotiate acceptable solutions and agreements.
● Evaluates how teachers interact and work effectively with
culturally and intellectually diverse people with a
sensitivity to cultural and language differences.

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Domain [2]: Research Competency Area [7]: Research Collaboration and Monitoring

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Collaborates with and/or mentors new researchers in
preparing and securing approvals of research
proposals, undertaking research projects, presenting
and publishing completed researches.
● Provides teachers with guidance on possible resources
and technical training and assistance they may tap for
their research.
● Monitors research activities and addresses issues
raised in a timely manner.

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Domain [2]: Research Competency Area [8]: Research Agenda

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Crafts the research agenda of the academic unit
based on reviews of industry needs, research
institutes’ agenda, and publication themes.

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Domain [2]: Research Competency Area [9]: Research Publication and Review

LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Publishes at least one research project in at least a
national research journal.
● Reviews researches submitted for technical review
by publications in the Accountancy/Management
field.

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Domain [3]: Social Integration Competency Area [10]: Social Integration
LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Applies appropriate governance principles on situations ● Designs governance framework as a guide in resolving complex
concerning ethical behavior and accountability within the ethical dilemma faced by the organization.
organization. ● Delivers presentations with complex issues confidently to senior
● Engages audience in interactive communication in small and management and other audiences and answer
large group settings and anticipates needs/questions and queries/questions convincingly.
responds appropriately such as delivering a learning module or ● Formulates negotiation models that will yield positive results.
facilitating a focus group discussion. ● Devises strategies to enhance team competence.
● Monitors relationships among team members and other parties ● Builds a culture where constructive conflict leads to continuous
and institutes actions to resolve identified issues. improvement.
● Sets team goals and provides timely and constructive feedback ● Develops assessment tools to measure impact of social
to issues raised. responsibility programs in the light of a sustainability reporting
● Resolves conflict within a team/department or with other parties framework.
and institutes or recommends interventions to address root ● Recommends or participates in regulatory policy development/s
cause/s. (e.g., position papers and attendance in public consultations as
● Devises social responsibility programs that are consistent with PQFthe
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Domain [4]: Ethics and Integrity (Core) Competency Area [11]: Ethics and Integrity
LEVEL 7 LEVEL 8
● Identifies ethical issues or those in violation of the ● Resolves ethical issues or those in violation of the
Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants and the Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants and the
Code for Teachers among peers and subordinates Code for Teachers among peers and subordinates
and institutes due process to resolve these. with due process and devise policies or create
● Recognizes and enables integrity in the mechanisms to prevent re-occurrence.
performance of the tasks of the team/department ● Develops and manages strategic programs to
members. address potential integrity issues.

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Domain [5]: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Competency Area [12]: ICT
LEVEL 7
● Keeps abreast with and introduces emerging
businesses and digital technologies for continuous
process improvement.
● Adopts relevant and appropriate technology in
managing practices and providing technical
solutions to complex problems.
LEVEL 8
● Anticipates the need for new technology
applications to enhance the efficiency and
effectiveness of business/service delivery.
● Assesses adopted technologies in managing higher
education institutions and academic programs and
in providing technical solutions to complex
problems.
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Poll Question

❖ What is the extent of your willingness to be assessed in

terms of the CPSP? [1 – not willing to 4 – willing]

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

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PQF-CPSP
SELF-ASSESSMENT
Make sure to complete the
assessment before 2:00 pm
today
Concluding Remarks

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Program Objective and Learning Outcome

PO: To discuss professional development and PQF in the

context of the education practice

LO: To identify the levels and domains in the competency

framework for the education practice, with reference to
Career Progression and Specialization Program (CPSP)
PRBOA Resolution [DRAFT]

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 PQF SUMMIT:
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Embracing the Role of PQF in the Accountancy Profession

Technical Session 1:
UNDERSTANDING PQF
IN THE EDUCATION PRACTICE