- 4 Marks
PSAF – Nov 2017 – L2 – Q2a – Public Sector Fiscal Planning and Budgeting
Describe the challenges faced by public institutions classified as GBEs in preparing financial statements under obsolete financial laws.
Question
A public sector institution has recently had its operations enhanced and modified such that they qualify as Government Business Enterprise (GBE) within the meaning of IPSAS 1. The management of the institution, in preparing their financial report for 2015, realized that the existing financial laws and regulations do not support their new status.
Required: Describe FOUR challenges Public Institutions (like the one in the preamble) face in the preparation of their financial statements when some financial laws and regulations needed to support reporting on their new status and operations have become obsolete. (4 marks)
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- Tags: Financial Reporting, GBEs, IPSAS, Public Institutions, Regulatory Framework
- Level: Level 2
- Topic: Public sector fiscal planning and budgeting
- Series: NOV 2017
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