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Did engineering and economics at Cambridge. Became a Chartered Accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in London. Almost 20 years of corporate management experience including CFO of international company based in the USA. Almost 20 years doing consultancy through World Bank, the United Nations and others. Long time advocate for the better use of accounting in the public sector and NGOs to improve performance and put an end to easy corruption. Now engaged in accounting reform through development of Multi Dimension Impact Accounting (MDIA).
Good old fashioned accounting has been discounted in the public sector and the official development assistance (ODA) community for decades, leaving massive fund flows easily accessible to those with corrupt intent. Without better accounting everything else is just talk. Better accounting was possible before computers were invented. Now with technology, it is not only possible to achieve better financial control and less corruption, but also way better management to achieve progress with efficiency.
This session aims to get 'accounting' in play as a tool for management. Good accounting was 'real time' way before the term was adopted in the computer environment. Good accounting is at the heart of ALL good management information systems. Without accounting, accountability is impossible, and transparency shows nothing!
This session will describe the way accounting for the 21st century in the form of Multi Dimension Impact Accounting (MDIA) can start to create ways to optimize performance of society and the economy so that there is an appropriate balance between return to investors, benefits for people and stress on the environment.
Good accounting ought to be ubiquitous. When there is good 'old fashioned accounting' everywhere, a big part of corruption will disappear, because good financial control means less easy opportunity for corruption to happen.
There are new opportunities to achieve control and monitor performance using technology that were not available in the past. These have huge potential but in most cases great technology is being used for rather modest goals. There is the potential to use technology to enable a new level of socio-economic development analysis, monitoring and evaluation so that there is much more progress with much less cost.
Impunity has been facilitated by the lack of good accounting.
Experience suggests that there are many 'good accountants' in relatively junior positions around the world. More senior people tend to have higher level qualifications (PhDs and the like) but rarely have much appreciation of the importance of very basic accounting. It is interesting, for example, how few people in the Transparency International organization are accountants relative to those who have law backgrounds, international politics, or some other discipline.
The development of Multi Dimension Impact Accounting (MDIA) is an ongoing program. The development and roll out of MDIA will progress whether this session is implemented or not.
Peter Burgess
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IACC Newsletter - May 2014 Call for Proposals Edition
International Anti-Corruption Conference
Mon, May 5, 2014 at 7:05 AM
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