PROGRAMME

EGPA PSG XII Public Sector Financial Management

2023 Spring Workshop

Host Institution: Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Zagreb

27-28 April 2023, Zagreb, Croatia

Challenges and opportunities

in public sector financial management and reporting

Final session programme of the EGPA 2023 SPRING WORKSHOP is available on the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PezjSNlTmszN848WbL4IR9n2SKn4C1A7/view?usp=sharing 

PROGRAM

The Workshop will start in the morning of 27 April 2023 and end in the afternoon of 28 April 2023.

First day: April 27, 2023

• 8.45-9.30 am: Registrations (in front of the Lecture room 3, WEST Central Building)

• 9.30-11.00am: Welcome Note and Plenary Session (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

• 9.30am – 9.50am: Opening remarks and Welcome speech

Opening remarks: Vesna Vašiček (Chairperson, FEB, University of Zagreb; Croatian Science Foundation Project Leader, EGPA Workshop Local Organizing Committee member)

Welcome speech:  Sanja Sever Mališ (Dean of The Faculty of Economics and Business University of Zagreb)

• 9.50am – 11am: Plenary session

Chair: Vesna Vašiček (Chairperson, FEB, University of Zagreb; Croatian Science Foundation Project Leader; EGPA Workshop Local Organizing Committee member)

Moderator: Gorana Roje (Ministry for Physical planning, Construction and State Assets, Croatia; Croatian Science Foundation Project team member, EGPA Workshop Local Organizing Committee member)

     Introduction to Plenary session themes

Themes/Speakers:

• “Public sector accounting in Croatia and international harmonization requirements: accomplishments, challenges, expected changes and opportunities” (Keynote speaker:  Danijela Stepić, Chief State Treasurer, MoF (Croatia);  Presenter: Hana Zoričić (Deputy to the Chief State Treasurer)

• “Accounting and financial reporting by public sector entities in the face of growing user needs and external requirements: reflections on Croatian Science Foundation Project key outputs” (Presenters: Vesna Vašiček (Chairperson, FEB, University of Zagreb; Croatian Science Foundation Project Leader), Nives Botica Redmayne (Massey University, New Zealand, Croatian Science Foundation Project Co-leader) and Ivana Pajković, PhD student, Croatian Science Foundation Project team member, EGPA Workshop Local Organizing Committee member)

Discussion: Q/A from the audience

• 11.00 -11.30am: Morning Coffee/Tea

• 11.30am - 1.00pm: Parallel sessions (Lecture rooms: 51, 54 and 55, Center for Graduate Study Programmes - ground floor EAST)

• 1.00 – 2.00 pm: Lunch (KEFA)

• 2.00 - 3.30 pm: Parallel sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes - ground floor EAST)

• 3.30 – 4.00 pm: Afternoon Coffee/Tea

• 4.00 - 6.00 pm: Parallel sessions (Lecture rooms: 51 and 54, Center for Graduate Study Programmes - ground floor EAST)

• 7:30 pm: Workshop Dinner (Hotel Dubrovnik, Ban Jelačić square)

Second day: April 28, 2023 

• 9.30 -11.00 am: Parallel sessions (Lecture rooms: 51, 54 and 55, Center for Graduate Study Programmes - ground floor EAST)

• 11.00 -11.30 am: Morning Coffee/ Tea

• 11.30 am – 1.15 pm: Panel Discussion 1 (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

Panel discussion theme: “Integrated reporting and other non-financial reporting as a new challenge for public sector entities - producer/user perspective”

Chair: Francesca Manes Rossi (University of Naples “Federico II”, EGPA PSG XII Co-chair)

•  Introduction to the topic: Implementing SDGs and non-financial reporting in corporate practices

• Round table discussion with invited speakers: On the implementation of integrated reporting, sustainability reporting, environmental reporting, and other non-financial reporting

Moderators: Gorana Roje (Ministry for Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets, Croatian Science Foundation Project team member, EGPA Workshop Local Organizing Committee member)/ Francesca Manes Rossi (University of Naples “Federico II”, EGPA PSG XII Co-chair)

Panelists:

-        Croatian SOE (HEP d.d. (HEP PLC), national energy company) representative (Tamara Tarnik)

-        Croatia's national development bank (Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and Development) representative (Maja Rajačić Pavlović)

-        Croatian financial services supervisory agency (HANFA) representative (Martina Verić)

-            European Commission (Representation in Croatia) representative (Judita Cuculić Župa) 

Q/A from the audience

• 1.15 - 2.15 pm: Lunch (KEFA)

• 2.15 – 3.30 pm: Panel Discussion 2 (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

Panel discussion theme: “International public sector accounting and reporting reforms: adopting or adapting?”

Chair/Moderator: Susana Jorge, University of Coimbra (Portugal), CIGAR Executive Board Chair

• Introduction to the topic: Reflections on the harmonization/convergence and reforms adoption/adaption processes

       Invited panellists/speakers:

Eugenio Anessi-Pessina, (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy), Italian public sector accounting standard setting Board member): Perspectives of IPSAS-based accrual accounting in Italy

Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business, EGPA PSG XII Co-chair, CIGAR Executive Board Member): Perspectives of IPSAS-based accrual accounting in Greece 

Discussion and Q/A from the audience

• 3.30 – 3.45 pm: Afternoon Coffee/Tea

• 3.45 – 4.45 pm: EGPA PSG XII activities and Closing remarks (Lecture room: 3, WEST Central Building)

EGPA PSG XII Co-chairs

Vesna Vašiček (Chairperson, FEB, University of Zagreb; Croatian Science Foundation Project Leader, EGPA Workshop Local Organizing Committee member)

• 5 pm – 6.30 pm Workshop City tour

Evening to relax in Zagreb