The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) will organise a daylong international conference on September 23 to create awareness on sustainable development goals.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith is scheduled to inaugurate the event as the chief guest at Sonargaon hotel in Dhaka, said Mohammed Salim, president of ICMAB.

Salim spoke at a press conference held at the ICMA Bhaban in the city yesterday.

ICMAB is organising the event on “Achieving sustainable development goals: challenges and way forward” for the first time as a development partner of the government, he said.

Regulators, corporate practitioners, accountants, other professionals, development partners, NGOs, bureaucrats, academics, IT experts, women entrepreneurs, and other related parties are coming under a single platform to engage in policy dialogues on the issue.

There will be six technical sessions where more than 40 experts from home and abroad will join.

Currently, only financial assets are included in the financial reporting but in the new system non-financial assets will get similar priority in the report, Salim said.

“As a result awareness is necessary over the issue among the stakeholders.”

Mahbub Ul Alam, executive director of ICMAB, and Nazmus Salehin, director, attended the press meet.