{"id":848,"date":"2016-04-20T05:56:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T04:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/?p=848"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T16:24:38","slug":"kick-off-of-pact-training-for-montenegrin-public-accountants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/2016\/04\/20\/kick-off-of-pact-training-for-montenegrin-public-accountants\/","title":{"rendered":"Kick-off of PACT training for Montenegrin Public Accountants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second part of April 2016 the Public Accountants Certification Training (PACT) has officially started with <strong>kick-off event in Podgorica<\/strong>. It will enable training of up to <strong>40 public sector accountants in Montenegro<\/strong>. The project is financially secured by our Public Finance for Development (PFD) programme (funded by MF Slovakia and implemented by UNDP for Europe and CIS).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>PACT training is implemented by the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) in cooperation with Chartered Institute for Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and it is part of the <strong>Montenegrin government\u2019s efforts<\/strong> to build and strengthen professional <strong>qualifications for public sector accountants<\/strong>. PACT emphasizes the importance of establishing and observing international public sector accounting standards and helps countries raise the status of the accounting profession in line with EU member states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-849 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" data-id=\"849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a>According to Ms Jelena Mrdak\u00a0(local UNDP representative): \u201cThis PACT activity is very important for developing <strong>capacities for transparent and accountable public finances<\/strong> in Montenegro, and should be continued for at least two more generations of participants \u2013\u00a0the first one should include more public accountants at national and the second one should include accountants from all 23 municipalities in Montenegro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-850 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" data-id=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a>Training of students will be conducted in <strong>three modules<\/strong>: two international modules, on financial accounting and management accounting, that were developed by CIPFA and the third national module focused to local legislation and taxation, which was developed by experts from the MF Montenegro. Each module takes approximately two to three months and it will be completed with successfully passed exam. You can read more about project\u2019s opening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cef-see.org\/international-certification-training-for-montenegrin-public-accountants-officially-launched-2016-04-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and about the PACT training <a href=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT-info_leaflet_2016.pdf\" rel=\"\">here<\/a>. You can also download press material about PACT training (in Slovak language) <a href=\"http:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PR-SR-podporuje-zvysenie-kapacit-v-Ciernej-Hore-TS.pdf\" rel=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second part of April 2016 the Public Accountants Certification Training (PACT) has officially started with kick-off event in Podgorica. It will enable training of up to 40 public sector accountants in Montenegro. The project is financially secured by our Public Finance for Development (PFD) programme (funded by MF Slovakia and implemented by UNDP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[94],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/PACT_MNE1_KickOff-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/publicfinance.undp.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}