This assessment of public sectoraccounting and auditing for Bangladesh is meant generally tohelp implement more effective Public Financial Management(PFM) through better quality accounting and public auditprocesses in Bangladesh and to provide greater stimulus formore cost effective outcomes of government spending. Morespecific objectives are (a) to provide the country'saccounting and audit authorities and other interestedstakeholders with a common well-founded knowledge as towhere local practices stand against the internationallydeveloped norms of financial reporting and auditing; (b) toassess prevailing variances; (c) to chart paths forimproving the accordance with international standards; and(d) to provide a continuing basis for measuring improvements.