About this course
Target audience
- Accounting and financial specialists, professionals, practitioners and policy makers employed within national, state/provincial and local governments; government ministries, departments, programs, boards, commissions, and agencies; public sector social security funds, trusts, and statutory authorities; and International governmental organisations.
- Accounting and finance staff of public sector entities that intend to embrace IPSAS, and thereby upgrade the reporting, the accountability and the transparency of their organisations.
- Public administrators encountering important challenges in reducing the distance between accounting systems within countries as well as across borders, through a move towards harmonisation of accounting practices in the public sector.
What you will learn
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:
- The role and history of IPSASB.
- The scope of accrual-based IPSAS.
- What is prescribed in the suite of IPSAS for accrual basis accounting.
- The options accrual-based IPSAS provides for the measurement and recognition for each of the standards.
- Some of the key practical implementation issues when preparing IPSAS-compliant financial statements.
- The options that are provided within IPSAS when determining key accounting policy issues.
- What is prescribed in cash-basis IPSAS.
- How to prepare a transition to cash-basis IPSAS or to accrual-based IPSAS.
Recent reviews
It was a well arranged and delivered program. Administration was superb. Resource Person is well experienced and delivered with high clarity of communication
Joseph S01 Nov 19
Am satisfied.
Daramola R01 Nov 19
The course was honestly below my expectations.
Nasir S01 Nov 19