CA Sri Lanka, GIZ conducts seminar on SLFRS for SME's
In its continuing endeavor to educate the Small and Medium Sized
Entities (SMEs) on the latest accounting standards, the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) together with the
Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
organized a seminar recently in Badulla.
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Upendra Wijesinghe, Senior Manager, Technical, CA Sri Lanka,
educating the participants |
The seminar on Sri Lanka Accounting Standards for Small and
Medium-Sized Entities (SLFRS for SMEs) was held in both the Sinhala and
English medium for the benefit of CEOs, CFOs accountants, auditors and
other professionals from the SMEs sector.
The seminar which was conducted by T. Dharmarajah, Partner of
Amarasekera and Company, was well received with a large participation of
a cross section of professionals representing various SME's from the
area. This was the first seminar in a series of similar programmes
organized between CA Sri Lanka and GIZ.
CA Sri Lanka and GIZ recently entered into an agreement which aims to
strengthen the skills and capacities of SMEs and Small and Medium-Sized
Practitioners (SMPs) in the country. The joint initiative between CA Sri
Lanka and GIZ will focus on several core activities, including to
enhance SME and SMP development in the Central, Eastern, Northern,
North-Western, Sabaragamuwa, Southern and Uva provinces, conduct
regional seminars on Sri Lanka Accounting Standards (SLFRS) for SMEs as
well as training programmes on basic accounting and book-keeping for
SMEs across the country and to set up a help desk to support SMEs and
SMPs on various technical materials, guidance notes, application
guidance and practice notes on SLFRS for SMEs. |
