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This article discusses ongoing reforms, plans for improvement, and challenges faced in financial reporting for budget organizations in Albania, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, and Turkey. It also presents potential solutions to address these challenges.
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GROUP #1 Albania, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Georgia, Macedonia, Turkey Baku, Azerbaijan April 12,2018
Part 1: Express Survey This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
Q1.Budget Organizations Conduct Accounting and Financial Reporting in:
Q3. Submission of Financial Reports for Consolidation Occurs:
Q4. Consolidation of Financial Reports of the Budget Organizations
Part 2 - Discussion This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
Challenges and Possible Solutions Georgia • Need for legal changes • Need to have a harmonized accounting methodology • Transition between fiscal years • Change management and trainings Albania • Transition to modified accrual basis of accounting, integration between cash basis used for budget preparation and execution and modified accrual based accounting • Extension of the Treasury System to widen the coverage • Need to integrate PPP • Integration between ATMIS & EAMIS • Portal where the spending units can have access to perform their functions • Change management and trainings Turkey • Public IFMIS to create effective integration • Full integration of the IT systems of the different line ministries • New central accounting IT systems • Political support for the reforms
Challenges and Possible Solutions • Change management and trainings Croatia • MOF will be collecting reports directly • High cost and issues collecting financial reports • Change management and trainings Macedonia • Need to adapt to EU standards of accounting for budgetary and private organizations • Creating automated central reporting platform • Moving from cash based accounting to accrual based accounting Azerbaijan • To include all the budgetary organizations into TIMS • Change management and trainings • Expectations management