School accounts competition awards on Saturday

The Awards Ceremony of the Best Annual Report and Accounts Competition of National Schools will be held on October 27 at 2.00 pm at the BMICH Main Hall.

This special national competition was inaugurated in the year 2008 by the Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (AATSL) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and continued for the first consecutive time in this year.

Objective of this national endeavor is to enhance the quality of Annual Reports and Financial Statements of School Development Societies or Committees of all National Schools in order to encourage the highest level of transparency, accountability, productivity and good governance. Participation of all national schools for this competition has been declared compulsory by the Minister of Education in the year 2009.

185 national schools have participated at this year’s competition. Winners will be awarded with plaques, cash prizes and certificates.

Other schools will be given certificates of Compliance, Appreciation and Acknowledgement.

The Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (AATSL) and the Ministry of Education have invited all national schools to attend this event.

The Chief Guest of this graceful national ceremony will be the Bandula Gunawardhana, Minister of Education.

Gamini Wijith Wijayamuni Zoysa, Deputy Minister of Education, Mohan Lal Grero, Monitoring M.P. of Education, Skills Development and Youth Affairs Ministry and Gotabhaya Jayaratne, Secretary to the Ministry of Education will be the Guests of Honour.