50. The World Bank ROSC team reviewed 28 sets of financial statements. The
sample included 4 commercial banks, 24 companies of which 4 were joint-ventures, 3
were foreign-owned firms, 12 SOEs, and 5 private companies. The compliance gap
analysis focused on both the compliance of statutory financial statements required to be
prepared in accordance with LAS and voluntary or contractual (e.g., required by a
holding company or lender) financial statements which purported to be prepared in
accordance with IFRS. The financial statements purporting to be prepared in accordance
with LAS were generally found to have been prepared in compliance with national
requirements. However, statutory financial statements submitted to the MOF Taxation
Department are not audited and hence there was no highlighting of any non compliance
within any audit report.
51. The financial statements reviewed which had been prepared in accordance
with LAS do not comply with some of the most basic requirements of modern
accounting and financial reporting. It appears that the information contained in LAScompliant
financial statements are hardly useful for decision making by the market
participants. Some of the gaps with basic accounting requirements are highlighted
below: