The Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Rwanda (ICPAR) yesterday trained over 40 SACCO workers and their leaders including others from auditing firms on financial reporting.
The training was held at Golden Hills Hotel in Kigali.
(ICPAR) is a Professional Accountancy Organization (PAO) mandated by law to regulate the Accounting profession in the republic of Rwanda.
Peter Rutaremara president of ICPA Rwanda explained to the press that the workshop was meant to create awareness to the participants on corporate laws and financial report framework among others to institutions in order to become better accounting members.
“We also meant to impart them with skills that can help them do their work in a polite manner,” Rutaremara added.
He also said that the institution signed a MoU with Auditors in Micro Finance Institutions intending to uplift their skills to reach the international standards.
Among other trainees, Emmy Manzi heading Munyiginya SACCO based in Rwamagana district Eastern Province said that the people in the area still lacked proper information to create awareness adding that at the end of the workshop he will be able to get a solution on how to create awareness about SACCO in his area of work in order to attract many people.
Joan Nyanzi of Garry White Knight (Auditors) based in Uganda but has a branch in Rwanda said, “The ICPAR workshops I have attended yet have helped me to know how to follow laws in Rwanda and I have leant standards and knowledge of operating in this country.”
Nyanzi also quoted, “when the company is not following laws properly, there are high risks of affecting Auditors during auditing.” She added that such trainings help them to overcome such kind obstacles during auditing.
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