ICAN responds to FG removal of Professional Bodies & Councils from Budget Funding
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has responded to Federal Government decision to discontinue budgetary allocations for professional bodies and councils.
In a statement released during the week, the President of ICAN, Innocent Okwuosa, while applauding the initiative, noted that ICAN had voluntarily stopped collecting FG yearly allocations since 1990. ICAN however said that they do not support discontinuing budgetary allocations to the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) and the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC).
Extract from ICAN President Statement
“We want to state that once upon a time, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) received an irregular meagre budgetary allocation of between N1 and N5 million a year. In 1989/90 years, ICAN voluntarily returned the cheque for the budgetary allocation back to the Federal Government (FG), declaring itself a self-financed organisation.
“I want to categorically state that since 1990, ICAN has been a self-funded organisation and does not receive any budgetary allocation from the FG. ICAN relies on members’ subscriptions, Professional examinations, Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and Faculty programmes’ net fees, other self-financing events such as Annual Accountants Conference (AAC), and financial support from organisations that identify with the ICAN brand.”
“However, we do not support the discontinuance of budgetary allocations to some Regulatory Councils that function as parastatals example, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC) and National Council on Climate Change (NCCC).”
“We will advocate for more budgetary allocations to the FRC to enable it to fulfil its many mandates. Similarly, given that climate change and energy transition are now burning global and local issues, the NCCC will need more budgetary allocations to execute its important mandate.”
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