Staff Accountants at the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike, Abia State have called on the government to provide more funds for their training and re-training to position them to keep abreast with current trends in the practice of the profession.
They made the plea while marking the 2024 National Accounting Day, the first in over one century Federal government-owned institute statutorily charged with the mandate to research into the genetic improvement of root and tuber crops of economic importance.
TheExecutive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the institute, Prof Chiedozie Egesi while declaring the event open through the Director, Research Support Services, Dr Moses Okusi, charged the accountants to exhibit professionalism in line with current trends.
The Head of Finance/Accounts, Onwusiribe Silver said that the meeting was an opportunity for the participants to re-assess themselves and their work for greater service and productivity. He lauded the Executive Director for approving and facilitating the meeting more than 100 years after the institute came into existence.
In her remarks, the Director, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of the institution, Dr Tessy Madu described accounting as a veritable profession that could hardly be practised without challenges and charged the accounting workers to look into those issues that delay progress and things going on smoothly.
Top serving and retired finance and accounting staff of the institute who were the resource persons, shared their experiences while presenting papers on salient accounting and auditing practice modalities.
