Universities in ASEAN region realized that competent and professional accountant can be produce if university able to improve the quality of their accounting educations. To improve accounting education in ASEAN and also to strengthen universities cooperation and relations within ASEAN regions, on April 21st 2015 in Bandung, Indonesia, five ASEAN Universities, Universitas Padjadjaran (Indonesia), De La Salle University (Philiphine), National University of Singapore (Singapore), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Vietnam (Vietnam), and Universiti Teknologi Mara (Malaysia) had established ASEAN Accounting Educators Workgroup (AAEW). AAEW will be a forum to discuss several strategic matters, among them are:

1. Creation of ASEAN Accounting Education Forum that will focus on ASEAN accounting education and ASEAN accounting educators

2. Benchmarking accounting curricula

3. Exchange students and exchange faculty members

4. Joint research by faculty members

5. Joint international conferences on best practices in teaching accounting

6. Immersion of accounting educators in the industry

7. Supporting each other’s academic initiatives