IPSAS Desk gives you sourced, paragraph-cited answers. IPSAS Drills builds your team's daily reflexes on the five places IPSAS adoption actually stalls. Both by a practitioner currently embedded in a Pacific Treasury, in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Pavitt Public Finance helps public sector finance teams get the basics properly done, in places where the starting point is low and the standards are real. Pay the staff. Record the assets. Reconcile the books. File the statements that survive audit. The unglamorous work that quietly keeps a government running.
That's the category we take seriously. Tools and content built around it. Not long PDFs, not expensive engagements, not a certificate at the end.
Short, daily practice tuned to where adoption actually stalls: opening balances that won't reconcile, IPSAS 23 grants with conditions, GFS mapping with a chart of accounts that wasn't built for it, audit working papers that don't survive review. Over 3,400 planks (questions and flashcards) across fifteen topics. Ten to fifteen minutes a day.
Ask any IPSAS question in plain English. Get a sourced answer with a paragraph citation that traces to a real paragraph in a real standard. The Desk gives you a defensible position before the audit visit, with the citation already attached. So your auditor isn't your technical desk too.
A working set of essays and short posts on what IPSAS adoption actually looks like in the field. Pattern-level observations from current implementation work, written for practitioners. Published on LinkedIn and archived on this site.
Recent posts cover the donor-funded vehicle handed to government at project close, the PPE opening balance when no asset register exists, foreign exchange on a tri-currency loan drawdown, and the in-kind donation of medical supplies. Available in English, with batch translations to Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Adopting or applying IPSAS. Directors of Finance, deputy accountants-general, controllers in line ministries, project accountants in donor-funded units. Especially where the team is small, capacity is stretched, and external training is hard to access.
Auditing governments but without a public-sector technical desk of their own. The Desk gets you out of the corner of playing technical desk for clients you then audit.
Consultants supporting government counterparts on IPSAS reform. Use Drills yourself; deploy it to the teams you are supporting.
Most IPSAS training is built around the standards. Read the standard, watch the video, sit the exam. That gets you a certificate, but it doesn't get you faster, more accurate, or more confident when the books need closing.
Most "AI accounting" tools are IFRS tools with public-sector content bolted on. They handle the standards that matter most in public sector (IPSAS 23, 24, 32, 35) at surface level, and they're willing to invent paragraph references that don't exist.
And the basics are the same everywhere. The five places that stall IPSAS adoption in the Solomon Islands stall it in Malawi and Bangladesh too. The industry sells regional specialisation; the actual pattern is cross-regional. These products are built around that pattern, from current implementation work in a Pacific Treasury rather than from a textbook.
Both products are built and maintained by Gregg Pavitt, currently embedded in the Solomon Islands Ministry of Finance and Treasury on an IPSAS implementation programme. Earlier work across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific, and before that, a long stretch of US municipal finance directorship work, direct and outsourced. CPA since 1991. Full CV and references on LinkedIn.
The Drills questions come from real implementation pain points. The Desk reference base is the actual IPSAS standards, IPSAS 1 through the most recently issued, plus IPSASB framework documents and selected public-sector application guidance. Every Desk citation is traceable to a real paragraph in a real standard. If the answer isn't in the source, the Desk says so.
Available in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. English, French, and Spanish content is vetted against the official IPSAS translations in each language, not machine-translated. For French- and Spanish-speaking users, both adoption paths are supported (e.g. official French IPSAS, or International IPSAS with translation to French) with citations and effective dates appropriate to each. The Portuguese interface is fully available, with the underlying IPSAS reference drawn from the English source.
World Bank
European Union
USAID
Millennium Challenge Corporation
DFAT (Australian Aid)
FCDOAdd a card to keep going past day 14, cancel any time. Team and ministry plans cover a single account across the whole finance team or audit staff.
Customised plans add your local statute, regulations, and accounting manual to the Desk reference base. Donor-funded pricing available where IPSAS adoption is supported by an international partner.
See full pricing →For embedded advisory, system design, capacity building, PEFA-style diagnostics, IFMIS work, public investment management, Gregg also takes engagements directly, as Team Leader or Key Expert, alongside the software business.