Reducing Reporting Burden: How International Accounting Standard Can Save Millions of Hours

Have you ever struggled to understand the financial health of your grantees from their audited financial statements? What about having to do that across different geographies? Or wondered about how much work funders create for grantees by specifying different grant reporting formats, which their accounting systems struggle to produce?

What is it?

The creation of the world’s first International Standard for Non-Profit Accounting (INPAS) won an inaugural WINGS Ecosystem Building Award in October 2026. This session will dive into why this new standard will create a more enabling environment for civil society and how funders can use it to reduce the compliance burden faced by their grantees, especially those in the Global South.

What will you learn?

• How funders can reduce the burden on their grantees of having to prepare financial reports in different formats, wasting millions of hours annually.

• How standardising grant reporting can also help with calculating indirect…