http://fb.unsystemceb.org United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination Finance and Budget Network http://fb.unsystemceb.org/logo.jpg http://fb.unsystemceb.org/ http://fb.unsystemceb.org/vacancies/vacancies Finance/Budget/Accounting jobs in UN system organizations No publisher Webmaster 2008-07-09 17:23:28 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/vacancies/vacancies/UNHABITAT-Finance-Management-Officer-P4.pdf The deadline for submission of applications is 31 August 2008. The Vacancy announcement is posted through the Galaxy system (http://galaxy.un.org/) No publisher palmer 2008-07-09 17:04:34 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reports/FBNetworkFinalReports/CEB_2006_HLCM_34%20Final_Report.pdf Conclusions of the 6th Meeting of the FB Network, IAEA, Vienna, 30-31 August 2006 No publisher palmer 2008-07-08 15:26:17 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reports/FBNetworkFinalReports/june07 Conclusions of the 7th Meeting of the FB Network, UNOG, Geneva, 20-22 June 2007 No publisher lalli 2008-07-08 15:22:32 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reports/FBNetworkFinalReports/FBN%20meeting%2003%20March%202008.pdf Conclusions of the meeting of the Finance and Budget Network, Videoconference, 3 March 2008 No publisher palmer 2008-07-08 15:21:29 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/vacancies/vacancies/IDLO%20Finance%20Director%20July%2008.pdf The International Development Law Organization is looking for a Director of Finance to assist with introducing a results-based budgeting and accounting system. The position is comparable to the UN D1 level in terms of responsibilities, and reports to IDLO's Director General. While IDLO's salary scale is lower than that of the UN, salaries are paid in Euro. Staff benefits (Van Breda medical insurance, education and housing allowance, home leave) are similar to the UN, with the exception of the pension scheme. For applicants from UN agencies, while a secondment is not possible, a "loan" arrangement, or obtaining Leave Without Pay to accept a contract with IDLO are two options. Deadline is 19 July 2008. Applications to be sent to IDLO Human Resources UnitViale Vaticano 106, 00165 Rome, Italy. Reference: FIN_RM in subject line (email: vacancy@idlo.int) No publisher palmer 2008-07-07 13:08:32 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/17/undocumentfolder.2007-11-15.9258059141/specialbudget20062007 A/C.5/62/L.20 Special subjects relating to the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009 No publisher cmilano 2008-06-05 11:03:26 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasfinstate/finstate2 IFAC 2007 Financial Statements No publisher jensen Chief Executives Board Secretariat 2008-05-12 16:00:37 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference Reference Material No publisher Webmaster Chief Executives Board Secretariat 2008-04-08 16:48:20 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasboard/IPSAS25 IPSAS 25 Employee Benefits, published in February 2008, deals with four categories of employee benefits: - Short term employee benefits - Post-employment benefits - Other long-term employee benefits - Termination benefits No publisher avandermolen 2008-04-07 19:55:04 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsas10/rev1/ed292 2. ED 29 Background Paper No publisher belmir 2008-04-03 22:10:57 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/news/richardbarr No publisher cmilano 2008-02-29 11:42:26 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/news/amirabdulla No publisher cmilano 2008-02-21 16:37:04 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/outstandingassessments Results of the FB Network survey of December 2007 on "Current policies and practices with regard to the provision for outstanding assessments". Access to the contents of this folder is for registered members only. No publisher cmilano 2008-01-22 11:53:56 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasguide/nao2 The National Audit Office (NAO) of the United Kingdom has produced this IPSAS Compliance Guide in order to support IPSAS Adoption by the United Nations World Food Programme. (The WFP is audited by the NAO.) No publisher jensen 2008-01-21 20:50:33 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasauditors/naoc No publisher belmir 2008-01-21 20:43:59 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/20 Risk management is a growingly important topic in international organizations: more and more resources are spent to ensure the continuity, security and solidity of operations (operational risk management), to protect organizations from financial crisis (financial risk management) and to manage other kind of eventualities which could threat the effectiveness of the organization. An Inter-agency Risk Management Community has been recently created and in this folder you can find a direct link to join it and some other useful reference materials on the risk management issues related to public sector organizations.Access to the contents of this folder is for registered members only. No publisher alesani 2008-01-09 13:47:11 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/21 A brief system-wide survey was carried out in October 2007 on the existence, content and structure of any Business Continuity Plans for Financial Operations in emergency scenarios that organizations may have developed to date. Fourteen organizations shared their plans which are compiled in CEB/FB/2007/INF.1.Access to the contents of this folder is for registered members only. No publisher palmer 2008-01-09 13:43:59 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasfinstate/finst1 The European Commission produces financial statements on an 'IPSAS-similar' basis. They are 95% compliant with IPSAS. No publisher jensen 2008-01-03 20:37:12 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasauditors/nao No publisher belmir 2008-01-02 21:13:56 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/focus/naooct20072 No publisher belmir 2008-01-02 21:08:52 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasguide/naooct07 No publisher belmir 2008-01-02 21:05:36 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasreports/2006-09-08 No publisher None 2007-12-19 18:48:23 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/ipsasbasics/ipsaspg No publisher belmir 2007-12-13 16:52:49 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/05/iasbfolder This folder includes information about International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). IFRS are relevant to IPSAS adoption, because the relevant IFRS standard should be applied whenever there is no IPSAS standard for a particular accounting topic. For example, there is no IPSAS that deals with intangibles and IAS 38 Intangible Assets, the relevant IFRS, will need to be applied when accounting for intangibles. No publisher jensen 2007-12-12 17:56:23 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/06/atlink.2007-11-19.6536400794 No publisher alesani 2007-11-19 12:28:07 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/06 Transition towards Result Based Management is intended to strengthen efficiency and effectiveness of UN system organizations operations, to align bevaiours and create incentives towards the achievement of the main goals and to make consistent the planning, programming, monitoring and reporting cycle. An HLCM Community of practice has been created in 2006; link to the knowledge management repository of the community is provided below. No publisher Webmaster Chief Executives Board Secretariat 2007-11-19 12:22:47 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/11/studGAO/undocumentfolder.2007-11-15.2292737564/The_Audit_Explosion.pdf The concept of auditing in public sector organizations is experiencing a growing expansion from the statutory control of the respect of internal procedures and regulations (compliance) to the control of the efficiency and effectiveness of the organizations (performance auditing). The present paper, issued by DEMOS, UK, in 1996, presents the UK central government experience with the audit "explosion"bringing useful and applicable concepts in the reality of UN organizations. No publisher alesani 2007-11-16 13:24:17 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/11/studGAO/undocumentfolder.2007-11-16.8564367688 No publisher alesani 2007-11-16 13:14:11 http://fb.unsystemceb.org/reference/11/studGAO/undocumentfolder.2007-11-16.0726810147 No publisher alesani 2007-11-16 12:33:37