iCPARQuarterlyBulletin-March2019

10 THE iCPAR JOURNAL
been the role of Government, has it been supportive?
CPA MKOMBOZI KARAKE: If you look at our
country’s development strategies be it Vision 2020
or the National Strategy for Transformation,
accountability is crosscutting. As the
Auditor General puts it; For anyone to have
accountability they should be able to
account. That is what transformation is all
about. Certainly the Government support
is enormous. I can tell you that the majority
of our students are those sponsored
by Government of Rwanda. All we ask
from the Government is to continue
supporting us whenever we knock on
the door and they should also know
that as an institute, ICPAR is also
available if
government needs services our
professionals are able to offer.
Of course, by law our council
has ex-official members from
Government and that in its self is
critical because they are part of
the process and know where the
profession is going. They create
that link with Government and as
such we have advocacy.
ICPAR MAGAZINE: How does the
private sector fit in?
CPA MKOMBOZI KARAKE:
The private sector is yet to
fully come on board. This is a
challenge that emanates from
our numbers. In fact, you often
hear Government complain that
they train and private sector
poaches. The private sector has
not put its weight around this. It
tends to be risk averse to training
their professionals especially
accountants. They don’t want to
spend substantially on that. But
we do have some companies
and organizations that have
taken this up, they know
themselves. I don’t want
to risk mentioning some
and forget others.
There is room for
improvements in
terms of how we
interact. The
iCPAR QUARTERLY BULLETIN
JANUARY - MARCH 2019