On 15 and 18 January 2016, grassroots training sessions on bookkeeping in the context of running agricultural cooperatives took place in Negrygailivsky and Glukhivsky rayon in Sumska oblast. Training was organized under the joint UNDP/EU project “Community based development”.

The target audience for this training were accountants, representatives of local self-governance bodies and treasury and cooperative members. The participants had an opportunity to ask questions and get a deeper grasp of the recent changes in tax legislation, requirements to accounting record keeping, and filling out quarter reports. With support of the trainer Ivan Nazarenko, the participants developed a form for calculation of service charges.

Apart from bookkeeping aspects, the participants also discussed their plans for cooperatives development in 2016. On the whole, this training has reached representatives of four cooperatives, including “Dobrobut Shchevchenkove 2016” and “Polisyanochka” in Glukhivsky rayon, and “Nedrygailiv” and “Hospodar-2015” in Nedrygailivsky rayon.