First Joint Seminar of The UNWE, Konfindustria Bulgaria Association and University of Bologna

For the first time the UNWE, the Business Faculty of Bologna University and Confindustria Bulgaria Association held a joint Seminar on the Taxation and Financial Statements Italy – Bulgaria. The Forum was organized by the Association of the Italian entrepreneurship in our country – Confindustria Bulgaria comprising 300 member-companies.

I am glad that this year in the Seminar intended for the Italian and Bulgarian entrepreneurship community participate also two prestigious universities – UNWE and Bologna University, said Prof. Dr. Veselka Pavlova, Vice Rector of UNWE who greeted the participants on behalf of the Rector Prof. D.Sc. (Econ.) Statty Stattev. This fact is not only an initiative related to the agreements of joint scientific and practical activity signed between the UNWE and the Italian university as well as between the UNWE and Confindustria Bulgaria, pointed out Prof. Pavlova. This joint Seminar is also a reflection of the consciously demanded relation between the university education and the entrepreneurship community, outlined the Vice Rector and expressed her confidence the Seminar would become a tradition.

From the left to the right: Prof. Gianfranco Capodaglio, Prof. Dr. Veselka Pavlova, Roberto Maskaly, Antonella Giachetti

During the Forum were discussed the fiscal and financial-accounting environment in which entrepreneurs operate in the markets in both countries. In the center of the debate were the main legislative changes, the analysis of the problems and the instruments to overcome them.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mariana Mihaylova from the Accountancy and Analysis Department presented the UNWE to Italian and Bulgarian participants as the best economic university in the country by a film.  

A film about the UNWE was presented.

About the voluntary disclosure of information and cooperation between both countries spoke Antonella Giachetti from the Studio Ferrara Giachetti Marchionni & Partners. Prof. Gianfranco Capodaglio from the Management and Administration Department of Bologna University commented the financial statements in relation to the new European regulations. A review of differences between the Bulgarian and the Italian national accounting standards were made by Vanina Drangarska, Doctoral student at the UNWE.

The participants in the Seminar

Roberto Maskaly, Director of the Confindustria Bulgaria was a moderator of the Forum.

The Seminar set the beginning of the Confindustry Bulgaria programme for informing and corporate culture for 2014. It will continue in the next months by meetings on topics such as structural funds, labour market, law and corporate finance in the Bulgarian context.