This issue of Management Control & Accounting (MCA) is devoted to the Seminar ‘Governance in Control: Dutch Research Earnings for International Financials’. The Seminar is organized by Royal NIVRA on 28th March 2007 at the occasion of the spring meeting of IFAC’s Professional Accountants in Business Committee in Amsterdam. This article is to inform the readers of MCA about the purpose and scope of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) and its Professional Accountants in Business (PAIB) Committee.