BIA Newsletter

• Obituary
  Mrs Agnes Bulawa passed away on 8 September after a short illness. She was laid to rest in Gaborone on 15 September. Mrs Bulawa completed her CIMA in 2000 and was an Associate Member of the BIA. Read more...
  
  
• IFAC Reaches Out to World's Accountants through Expanded Multilingual Website
  (New York/August 4, 2007) - To make information about its activities more accessible to a global audience, the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) has translated core portions of its website (www.ifac.org) into Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish. These languages, in addition to English, which is IFAC's official language, are the official languages of the United Nations. Read more...

• Commissioners of Oath Act (CAP. 05:03)
  In exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 3(2) of the Commissioners of Oaths Act, Mr D K Kwelagobe, Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration made an order amending the schedule to the Commissioners of Oaths Act.  The order substituted the existing Part II for a new Part II.  This order was made on May 25, 2007. Read more...

• Brief Report on the BIA/SMME Committee
  The Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMME) Committee is quite active during the year 2007. Read more...

• ECSAFA
  Eastern Central and Southern African Federation of Accountants. Many accountants across the country often wonder what exactly ECSAFA is and what exactly does it represents and stands for?  The following paragraphs will attempt to clear all these questions. Read more...

• The Botswana Financial Reporting Act 2007
  Addressing the Accountants on their 5th International Conference, the Minister of Finance and Development Planning Mr Gaolathe warned that the Financial Reporting Act, due to go through Parliament later this year would revolutionise the accounting profession in Botswana.  A message to those fly by night accountants was that there should be wary because the FRA was on its way to uncover them.  He had this to say: Read more...

• Surviving a BURS audit
  An audit by the Botswana Unified Revenue Service (BURS) can be an extremely time consuming, disruptive, stressful and expensive experience – one to be avoided where possible. Read more...

• International Financial Reporting Standard Exposure Draft on Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
  For Botswana, this standard is without doubt going to be the most important one, or rather the most relevant one of all IASs, or IFRSs that have ever been passed.  This is so because the standard is going to become the financial reporting framework for the majority of entities in Botswana. Read more...
  
  
• Know your President
  Mrs Priya Iyer was elected the first woman President in the history of the Institute. She follows in the footsteps of other iconic figures in the accounting profession such as Lawrence Maika, the first President of the Institute John Stevens,Uttum Corea RS Rajaram Mohan, John Stevens and Butler Phiri who went on to become President of ECSAFA, to mention but a few. Read more...

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