THE CENTRAL BANK
OF ARMENIA
WILL CREATE ITS OWN GOLD
RESERVE
In the end of 2016 the Central bank of Armenia will
start creating the gold reserve, declared the chairman
of the Central Bank Artur Dzhavadyan.
According to him, the Central Bank will carry out
the creation of the gold reserve together with the Swiss
Technosert company. The company has already finished
the project works on construction of the enterprise on
precious metals refining. The enterprise will start working in
the shortest possible time and, as expected, by the end of
2016 will have begun production of bank gold. It will give
to domestic enterprises a chance not to direct concentrates
abroad, but to sell them to the local plant receiving either
money or bank gold if they wish. «Thus, since the end of the
next year we will start creating our gold reserves», – noted
Artur Dzhavadyan.
Production of bank gold and silver ingots for export and
realization on the local market will become the main task of
the enterprise. At that the local raw materials of an alloy of
Dore will be used. The chairman of the board of directors
of the Technosert company is a Swiss businessman of
the Armenian origin Vardan Sirmakes. In the middle of
September the Minister of Economics of the Republic of
Armenia Karen Chshmarityan reported that the government
conducts negotiations on construction of refinery, and
during 2016-2017 it will be extracted 12–14 tons of gold
in Armenia, and it is enough of it to create own affinaging
production. It should be noted that the share of bank gold
in gross international reserves of Armenia was nullified in
December 2003.
ARMENIA INTENDS TO ADOPT
A NEW TAX CODE
In March 2016 the draft of the new Tax code
will be submitted for consideration of the National
assembly of Armenia. It was declared at the session
of The National Assembly by Gagik Hachatryan the
RA Minister of Finance who submitted the draft of the
state budget of 2016.
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The minister emphasized that this document will
become a long-term one, not providing frequent changes.
It will allow creating a stable and predicted environment.
The minister reminded that at the first reading the
parliament of Armenia made amendments to a package
of the legislative initiatives, which provide radical changes
of tax administration system. It is planned to refuse
practice of accumulation of overpayments, to reduce
terms of repayment of the VAT, which were received from
production export, to reduce frequency of a c c o u n t s
rendering, to reduce contacts between representatives of
tax administration and taxpayers.
These measures, the minister considers, will allow to
expand the available potential in the medium and long
terms, will increase competitiveness of economy, will
improve a social and economic situation of the Armenian
society. Hachatryan also assured that the current year will
finish with economic growth.
WITHIN CREATION
OF «PARADISE FOR
BUSINESS»
THE VOLUME
OF INSPECTIONS AND
CHECKS WILL BE REDUCED
IN KYRGYZSTAN - TEMIR
SARIYEV
«One of priority activities of the government is
the creation of «paradise for business», – told the
prime minister of the Kyrgyz Republic Temir Sariyev
at a session of the government.
According to him, each investor in Kyrgyzstan should
feel recoverability of investments and their efficiency.
«We have 12 supervisory authorities. I charge all
controlling and supervisory authorities to develop radical
measures for regulating of inspections and reporting
of business. The financial police and law enforcement
agencies have to react immediately at offence against
private property», – noted Sariyev.
The prime minister reminded the cabinet that
parliament, having promptly approved the structure of the
government, «rendered us a credit of trust».
«80% of heads of government bodies remained
on their posts. It speaks about stability of the power,
openness and discipline. But it does not mean that there
are no shortcomings in the work of the government and
everything functions well», – he told.
Sariyev reminded officials that the present structure of
the government began to function in a hard time.
«In a short period of time we have showed an active
work, we have resolved many unresolved problems, we
have set the objects, we have held numerous of meetings
with the population. And namely for this reason we
received a credit of trust. World crisis, economic difficulties
in Kazakhstan and Russia directly influence the economy
in Kyrgyzstan. At that our task is to achieve financial and
We as organizers of government purchases,
following the results of purchase in the way of budget
inquiry, sign within five working days the agreement,
register it in registration book of agreements (we date
agreemnts) and we direct two copies to the potential
supplier by registered mail for the signature. Further
the supplier, having received agreements, signs them
and directs one copy of the it back within 7 working
days. In view of real time of delivery of mail as our
practice shows, date of receipt of the agreemnet can
make the whole month.
At this item 2 of Art. 40 of the law the imperative term
of registration of the agreement in treasury is established -
no later than five working days after the conclusion of the
agreement. Under the specified circumstances we carry
out registration of agreemnets in treasury out of time, and
supervisory authorities put this fact as violation from our part.
On the basis of the above and for establishment of uniform
law-enforcement practice we ask you as authorized body
on government procurements, to explain the following
questions with reference to the corresponding regulatory
legal act:
1. Since what moment shall an agreement be deemed to
be concluded: from the moment of signing by the last party
or putting down of date in the agreement?
2. When to register an agreement in the register book
(to date contracts) – before sending it to the supplier or
after receiving? Consider that suppliers can refuse to sign
agreements without date.
According to item 24) of Art. 1 of the law, an agreement
on government procurements is a civil contract signed
between the customer and the supplier according to the
present law and civil legislation of the RK on delivery of
goods, performance of work, rendering services for ensuring
functioning, performance of the state functions or authorized
activity of the customer.
According to item 1 of Art. 40 of the RK Law «About
Government Procurements» (further – the law) an agreement
on government procurements comes into force after its
signing by the customer and supplier or full introduction by
the last of ensuring performance of the contract provided by
competitive documentation. If an agreement on government
procurements is subject to registration, it comes into force
after its registration according to the legislation of the
Republic of Kazakhstan.
According to item 1 of Art. 393 of the Civil Code of RK,
an agreement shall be deemed to be concluded when
consensus is reached between the parties in accordance
with the required form, on all the material terms of it.
Conditions about the subject of an agreement are
essential, conditions which are recognized essential by the
legislation or are necessary for agreements of this type, and
also all those conditions concerning which according to the
statement of one of the parties the agreement has to be
reached.
In this regard an agreement on government
procurements comes into force (it is considered concluded)
after its signing by the last of the parties. Therefore we believe
that registration of an agreement in the registration book is
made also after its signing by the last of the parties.
COMPETENT ANSWER
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AT OUR NEIGHBOURS
economic independence. During the next years we have to
learn to live being supported only by our own strength», –
added the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.
THE ACCESSION OF KYRGYZSTAN
INTO THE EEU SOFTENED
THE INFLUENCE OF THE WORLD CRISIS ON
THE NATIONAL ECONOMY
«The moment of accession of the Kyrgyz Republic
into the EEU coincided with the global crisis
connected with decrease in energy costs, sanctions
policy of a number of the countries against Russia,
strengthening of dollar against national currencies. It
should be noted that without entry into the EEU the
influence of the crisis on the national economy would
be stronger, and the accession into the EEU, accession
into the common market smoothed this situation.
Today we have positive growth in the economy», –
said the deputy minister of economy of Kyrgyzstan
Daniar Imanaliyev.
The representative of the ministry emphasized that
the economy of the KR shows stable growth (according to
the results of nine months the GDP growth made 106,1%),
while in neighboring countries there is a decrease in rates
of economic growth.
It has passed three months since the moment of
accession of Kyrgyzstan into the EEU. At the present time
we conduct an adaptation of economic activity subjects to
new conditions of the EEU.
KYRGYZSTAN PLANS TO RECEIVE
A DUTY-FREE ACCESS TO
THE MARKETS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
“Kyrgyzstan submitted the application to the
Commission of the European Union on application
of the special preference scheme of GSP + the EU. It
is the scheme according to which the KR will receive
a duty-free access to the EU market”, - reports the
Ministry of Economics of the country.
According to the department, the country would like to
advance textiles, raw materials and fruit processing further.
The department noted that the KR is oriented not only
to the markets of the EEU, but also and to the countries of
far abroad in order to expanse of the export opportunities.
THE GOVERNMENT OF KYRGYZSTAN
WILL DEMAND NON-CASH
TRANSACTION AT PURCHASE AND SALE OF REAL
ESTATES
“The government of the KR, perhaps, will have to
carry out non-cash transaction at purchase and sale of
real estates”, - told the prime minister Temir Sariyev
at the government session.
The head of the Cabinet of Ministers charged the State
Registration Service to control transactions of purchase and
sale of real estates - they must be carried out only in soms.
«Also, probably, it will be necessary to demand non-cash
transactions in order to keep money in the banking sector»,
– noted Temir Sariyev.
SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR
THE KYRGYZ SOM DEPRECIATED BY 23,1%
The chairman of the KR National bank Tolkunbek
Abdygulov informed deputies on it in the course
of session of the Zhogorka Kenesh committee on
economic and fiscal policy.
He noted that inflow of foreign currency into the
country comes from three sources: the loans and grants
which are received by the government, money transfers
and exporters.
«The import volume decreased by about 25%. If the
national currency decreases, import will reduce as well. At
the same time now we work on decrease of dedollarization
level. At the current moment the volume of deposits in USD
makes more than 60%», – told the head of KRNB.
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COMPETITION
In Kazakhstan started the republican competition
«The Best Accountant» organized by the “Financial
Academy” JSC of the RK Ministry of Finance with
support of «1C Kazakhstan».
The chairman of jury, the director of the accounting and
audit methodology department of the RK Ministry of Finance
Arman BEKTUROVA told about the purposes and conditions
of participation in the professional competition during the
interview for our magazine.
- Arman Tursunovna, what is the idea of the
professional competition?
- Currently we feel the global lack of accountants both
generally in economy and with niche specialization. This
situation is characteristic not only for our country. For example,
the other day the problem of an acute shortage of experts in
this sphere was discussed in Geneva at the meeting of the
ISAR UN working group which directly deals with issues of
accounting and audit.
The matter is that both the legislation and standards change
very often. Standards are the live mechanism: depending on
trends in economy they undergo various amendments. And
normative legal acts also are not dogma, they are changed
quite often. That is why the ability to put them into practice
having studied everything scrupulously is an everyday hard
work. Not all the people can withstand such a rigid rhythm.
Therefore the Ministry of Finance as the body which
exercise a regulation function in this sphere decided to support
the republican competition of accountants and by means of
its carrying out to increase professional skills and work quality
of accountants, prestige and the public importance of an
accounting profession, to popularize it.
- You speak about a lack of personnel though there
is an opinion that, on the contrary, too many economists
and financiers are now trained in colleges and in higher
educational institutions…
- To go out of the educational institution doors with the
diploma does not mean that the person will find a job and
will become a competent expert. To tell the truth, we all know
that tax specialists charge additional taxes after accountants`
work, supervisory authorities find various faults. Not in favor of
representatives of the profession is frequent change of work
place.
Actually there are very few of highly skilled accountants.
Especially when today both state institutions and commercial
structures are transferred to the international standards. These
are big changes which demand continuous training. And,
moreover, not every economist is an accountant and not every
financier is an accountant as well.
- What qualities should have an accountant today?
- According to the legislation a professional accountant
must know law, taxes and accounting according to the
international standards. But for today that is not enough. For
example, at the current moment auditors must perfectly know
the pension, banking and insurance legislation.
Moreover, a true professional should possess high moral
and ethical qualities. And we already make certain changes
on requirements for professional certification according to
the international standards. We hope that this offer, which will
be considered by an advisory body, will get support of the
professional community.
I will give such an example. In November in London took
place the signing of the memorandum between the Ministry
of Finance and the British organization ACCA which deals with
certification. We went there to study their experience in the
summer. This organization places emphasis that its accountants
must not only possess a certain bundle of knowledge and skills,
but also conform to ethical requirements. Even if on the Internet
there is any reputation stabbing evidence, for instance, that an
accountant criticized something in a way that shows disrespect
or was subjected to administrative prosecution, AССA expels
him from the stuff in spite of the fact that the accountant has
already paid membership dues, passed examinations and so on.
Because an accountant is a person who fixes all the operations
on economic and financial activity of the company, makes its
financial accounts, and his moral qualities have to be on a very
high level.
ACCOUNTANT,
BECOME A MILLIONAIRE!
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COMPETITION
- Is the profession of an accountant demanded today?
- Yes, it is. Heads of enterprises address to me quite often.
These are both national companies and Internal Audit Service
which want me to recommend experts for their companies. In
the course of communication with them, while working with
advisory body, we become more and more convinced how
serious lack of competent accountants is. You can witness it also
when tax specialists charge additional taxes after accountants`
work, when supervisory authorities, including Accounts
committee and the Committee of financial control, find faults
in their reports, when impose chief accountants are imposed to
penalties.
And what they want to know from us is in what educational
center it is possible to fill gap in knowledge. Fortunately, there
is Financial academy under the authority of the Ministry of
Finance which increases qualification of accountants and trains
them today and which is on the top of educational processes in
a financial system.
Actually, professional training in the sphere of accounting
and audit is a serious, expensive and continuous process. For
instance, only in the ACCA company more than 500 people
work on creation of modules and training programs.
In my opinion, the accountant is a highly intellectual
profession. What I like the most is: standards push accountants
to explaining to heads, what decisions need to be made. An
accountant is not just a ledger cleric who sits with a calculator
and only adds and multiplies figures. No, he explains to the
head, according to what balance sheet item this or that
operation will be conducted, whether this balance sheet item
will be attractive for investments, what are the possibilities to
create this or that reserve and how to implement it. This is the
person who speaks language of the international business. It is
believed that if you know IFRS well it is equivalent to that you
know an additional foreign language which speaks all business.
For example, the person made an operation: he bought an
investment real estate – an expensive picture. The IFRS provides
him with information how to deal with it, demands answers
to questions: whether the person bought it to resell or keeps it
in order to sell a little bit later more expensively. The IFRS sorts
each situation of this kind out and gives reliable knowledge for
adoption of administrative decisions.
- Could you, please, tell us about participants
selection criteria of the republican competition?
- All professional accountants without restrictions on age
can participate in the competition.
Initially more than 400 participants made enquiries for the
first round. But because of numerous requests to prolong the
competition, as many did not know about its carrying out, we
made a summary on the first round and 6 people more were
allowed to participate in the second round. Now the first round
has been prolonged, and those who did not manage to make
it earlier can register on the site anew and take part in the
competition further together with those who have passed it.
The first round will take place from 16th November to 7th
December, the second one – from 8th December to 11th
December and the third one – on 14th December, 2015.
By the way, the prize fund is quite serious: 1 million tenge is
for the first place, 500 thousand tenge for the second place, 300
thousand tenge for the third one. The Rewarding of winners will
take place on the eve of the Independence Day. Finalists will
be handed with gratifying letters of the RK Minister of Finance.
25 participants will be awarded by certificates at a discount of
30% for express qualification upgrading courses for professional
accountants in the “Financial Academy” JSC branch in Almaty.
Following the results of the competition the winner
will become a member of the advisory body concerning
accounting and audit matters at the RK Ministry of Finance.
- How is the jury work transparency provided?
- Representatives of Financial academy, professional
community - practicians – auditors are on the jury panel.
None of us knows surnames of the participants, who use
their IIC (individual identification code). We will know their
names only on the final round – with the help of a database of
State Revenue Committee.
Objectivity is provided also due to carrying out the first
two rounds in the online form. The competition participants
visit the website www.1ccc.kz and answer the questions that
excludes influence of a human factor. On the third round the
personal attendance of the participant will be needed. The
best of the best will manage to withstand till the final part of
the competition. They will have to show their knowledge of
International Financial Reporting Standards, ability to apply it
and also to solve situational problems.
- Do you plan to hold the competition among
accountants annually?
- We do have such plans. It is desirable we hold such
contests every year not only at the level of our republic but also
within the Eurasian Economic Union.
We plan to hold a competition on the best state purchasing
agent. State procurements is such a sphere in which the
requirements and the legislation change very dynamically as
well. As it deals with public budget money, this sphere also has
need for competent experts.
We also advanced with an initiative to carry out a rating
between the best auditor companies. After all any competition
is a chance for experts to give a try, to try a hand, and for
organizers it is an opportunity to support the financier’s
profession, to show its importance and a vital role.
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