{"id":76458,"date":"2019-04-05T03:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T01:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=76458"},"modified":"2019-04-05T03:20:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T01:20:50","slug":"european-union-icam-partner-in-training-accountants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/04\/05\/european-union-icam-partner-in-training-accountants\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union, Icam partner in training accountants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Bernard Mhone: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_76461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-190x122.jpg 190w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-120x76.jpg 120w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-265x168.jpg 265w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-284x180.jpg 284w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-274x173.jpg 274w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo-220x140.jpg 220w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/janet-mortoo.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-76461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MORTOO\u2014 We want to promote accountability<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The European Union (EU) has partenered the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (Icam) in training accounting students from various colleges across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The two institutions conducted debates on entrepreneurial skills for college students in Mzuzu on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the debate, EU Program Manager for Public Financial Management, Janet Mortoo, said the organisation is working towards capacity building and promoting accountability among accounting professionals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe want to promote accountability, transparency and integrity among accountants,\u201d<\/em> Mortoo said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the EU has expressed satisfaction on progress of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>ICAM Director of Education and Training, Ruth Mdala, said the institute has noted a gap among some professionals.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIf accountants are to able to articulate issues to investors and business owners, they need to have technical skills.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAt the end, we believe that we will be producing students who would be able to survive in the job market and businesses,\u201d<\/em> Mdala said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mzuzu Technical College emerged winners of the debate and has qualified for the semi-finals to be held in Lilongwe in May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernard Mhone: The European Union (EU) has partenered the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Malawi (Icam) in training accounting students from various colleges across the country. The two institutions conducted debates on entrepreneurial skills for college students in Mzuzu on Wednesday. Speaking during the debate, EU Program Manager for Public Financial Management, Janet Mortoo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76462,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76458\/revisions\/76462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}