Organised by the Financial Services Bureau and starting tomorrow, Monday, September 6, at 6:00pm, in the World Trade Center’s Lotus Room, is the seminar on The Public Accounting System in the EU. Integrated in the 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, this seminar will be lectured by Rowan Harrison Jones, Professor of Public Sector Accounting, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. This seminar will be conducted in English, with 105 participants registered to attend. During its five sessions, which will take place daily between 6:00pm and 8:30pm, until September 10, the seminar will address three of the most distinctive national government budgeting and accounting systems in Europe: the UK, France and Germany. Its particular focus is on the relationship between traditional cash-based budgeting and modern accrual-based accounting. The 2nd EU-Macao Co-operation Programme in the Legal Field, extending until December 2012, which embodies the said seminar, has the “Consolidation of the Macao Legal System” as its main objective. The total budget for the programme is 1.500.000 euros (approximately 16.500.000 patacas), this programme is co-financed by the European Union and the Macao Foundation, with the remaining costs supported by the MSAR’s budget. The implementation of this Co-operation Programme is co-ordinated by the International Law Office (GADI), with participation of several other MSAR’s entities and public departments, namely, the Legal and Judicial Training Centre (CFJJ), the Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ), the Economic Services (DSE), the Financial Services Bureau (DSF) and the Institute of European Studies of Macau (IEEM).
