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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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