{"id":25068,"date":"2016-05-03T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/icpar-to-improve-rwanda-accountancy-profession\/"},"modified":"2016-05-14T06:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T06:19:49","slug":"icpar-to-improve-rwanda-accountancy-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/icpar-to-improve-rwanda-accountancy-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"iCPAR to improve Rwanda  accountancy profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Accountant General  in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) ,Patrick Marara Shyaka says that Rwanda has not yet attained a good progress in finding professional accountants if one considers  mistakes realized in financial books of accounts from public and private institutions.}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still  gaps reflected  in poorly written public and private accountants reports.This can lead to poor planning and improper tax declaration which meat eat into the company performance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2016, International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) announced that iCPAR was selected as one of the institutional beneficiaries of the aid to be allocated in  establishing and implementing a five years budget plan in a drive of promoting accountancy profession.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the director of IFAC, Fayzul Choudhury and his delegation visited various institutions ,partners of iCPAR including MINECOFIN,National Bank of Rwanda, Rwanda Revenue Authority to identify how accountancy as a profession performs in Rwanda and seeking  ways of boosting collaboration to avoid mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>The president of iCPAR , Mkombozi Karake explained  that they have registered 400 professional accountants of who more than 100 are Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the need of  increasing the numbers and quality of  professional accountants since the more the country evolves economically, the more professional accountants are needed.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the release of many university graduates from business schools is not enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompleting university education  is not enough to become professional. It requires advanced courses for four or five years. IFAC is going to help in offering professional courses and diplomas which are internationally competitive,\u201d said Mkombozi.<\/p>\n<p>iCPAR was established in 2008. It monitors accountants as a way of promoting the accounting profession, examines  people in need of advancing accountancy knowledge. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12074 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fayzul_choudhury_uyobora_ifac-2.jpg\" alt=\"The director of IFAC, Fayzul Choudhury \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Accountant General in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN) ,Patrick Marara Shyaka says that Rwanda has not yet attained a good progress in finding professional accountants if one considers mistakes realized in financial books of accounts from public and private institutions.} \u201cThere are still gaps reflected in poorly written public and private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25068"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}