SAPIENTIA Nova offers its services to companies, other financial institutions and supervisory institutions.
The SAPIENTIA Nova development strategy focuses on exploring client needs on the one hand and acquiring new knowledge and skills on the other, and the result is continuous innovation of services and raising their quality.
Thanks to the employees with the knowledge and experience, the energy and the will, SAPIENTIA Nova can help you achieve the stated business goals, whether you are just starting a business or want to rise your business to the next level.
Specialist seminars
“In house” seminars, trainings and workshops
It is characteristic for them that in most cases they are held in the client’s headquarters, and from that is the name “in house”. SAPIENTIA Nova is preparing such comprehensive programs and is prepared to organise them in its own presentation hall according to the customer request.
In house seminars, trainings and workshops for the needs of companies can be prepared for the following topics:
- Financial Instruments: recognition, measurement, presentation and disclosure based on IFRS / IAS
- Hedge accounting – IFRS / IAS and the practice in the Republic of Croatia
- Leasing – accounting records in companies using leasing products
- Financial Statements – basis of reporting in accordance with IFRS / IAS, Risk – types, measurement, presentation and disclosure
- Finance for non-financers – Module 1 – the elements of financial statements, financial statements
- Finance for non-financers – Module 2 – analysis of financial statements
- Accounting – business intelligence – accounting processes, workshops with practice issues
- Accounting policies – setting up, choice of alternatives, workshop
- Management Accounting – business budgeting, cost management
- International Accounting Standards – Presentation of a certain standard according to client’s choice
- Managing personal finances – helping employees deal with personal finances
- Other financial and accounting issues – practical issues, according to the needs of an individual business
Each topic can be customized to the needs of “in house” seminars, trainings or workshops.
For the needs of the client we can arrange an expert seminar for the clients of the client who would provide their clients with additional service.
This type of service has been provided to ALD Automotive Ltd, From the Societe Generale group, which has been providing clients additional service advice on certain financial and tax issues at the event “Financial Breakfast”.
Consulting services
We provide our clients with the knowledge, tools and techniques they can improve their business.
SAPIENTIA Nova, with ten years of experience, can provide you with assistance in company start up, determining accounting policies in accordance with IFRS and IAS, addressing key elements of internal control, making decisions about financial-accounting investment recording of the investment or the effects of applying certain types of contracts on your financial statements, and consulting in the field of business contracts.
Preparation of the regulatory framework
SAPIENTIA Nova consists of experts with ten years of experience in financial industry, as well as authorships such as bylaws related to the legislation of funds, both pension and investment.
We highlight some of the works:
- Ordinance on the content of the report of shareholders and holders of fund units and management of the investment fund management company’s books
- Ordinance on the Transfer of Mandatory Pension Fund Members’ Accounts
- Ordinance on the Net Asset Value of Pension Funds
- Ordinance on Valuation of Pension Fund Assets and Liabilities
- The project of the control and billing sector under the heading “Cash flow and the related records of the single accountancy in the compulsory pension insurance system based on individual capitalized savings”
Through the preparation of the regulatory framework, we want to provide the society and the community and the entire region synergy effects of financial market development. We are specialist in the regulation of investment funds, leasing and factoring.
OFI FOCUS – newsletter
The OFI Focus brings news related to the operations of other financial institutions and supervisory authorities in the region. The OFI Focus is the way SAPIENTIA Nova business clients are getting new information about the legal provisions that are current in a given period of time, and a certain theme from the activities of other financial institutions is presented to all users. Newsletter comes in PDF format via mail.
You can join the e-mailing list by submitting an e-mail message to the “OFI Fokus-mailing list” e-mail to sapientia@sapientia.hr or by registering at www.sapientia.hr
Educators/Consultants
Mirjana Marinković is the director of SAPIENTIA Nova Ltd. and a Board Member of SPECIJALIST Profil Ltd. She graduated in 1998 from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb. After graduation she continued her formal education by attending the postgraduate study program in the department of accounting, finance and audit. In 2008 Mirjana was rewarded by the professional organization HZRIFD’s annual reward prof. dr. sc. Ferdo Spajić. In 2013 she was engaged as a member of the Ministry of Finance work group for the new accounting law. She is certified as a Professional TQ Trainer. Her ten year career is related to investment funds. At the beginning of the fund industry in Croatia, in the year 1997, she began her career working in EXPANDIA Invest; a fund management company involved in the process of coupon privatization in Croatia, until she began performing duties as the Head of Finance and Accounting at CAIB Invest, a fund Management Company that was among the first companies to found open-end funds in the Croatian market. In cooperation with INCENDO Ltd. she participates in the development of programming solutions for investment funds, FMC.Invest and participates in WinDays 2006 as a lecturer. Mirjana Marinković is specialized primarily in business start-ups so she decided to establish her own entrepreneurial activity, SAPIENTIA Nova Ltd. for business consulting and analysis. Since some things don’t just happen by themselves and she doesn’t lack entrepreneurial spirit and ideas, she created a web portal SPECIJALIST.HR for the financial experts market and SPECIJALIST.Profil for mediation in employment. More than anything in the world she loves her daughter Hana.
Sandra Kalanj is a manager in the department of accounting and consulting services of the company SAPIENTIA Nova Ltd. since year 2009. Before joining the SAPIENTA Nova Ltd. team she was the head of accounting in Proficio Ltd. holding. Sandra is an expert in the field of taxation, consolidation and real estate, and has an excellent knowledge of business and commercial law. She graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb in 2000, and is a certificated Authorized Professional Accountant and Authorized Internal Auditor. She received several awards of the professional public (ZRIFD Zagreb, HZRIFD). As a representative of the owner she participated in the work of a supervisory board and presided over one audit committee. In 2007 she led the takeover of a public share holding company Proficio Ltd. by a management company. She is a proud mother of three children, girls Una and Mia and a boy Bruno.
Nina Bočkaj is an Accounting team manager in the Accounting and consulting services department of the company SAPIENTIA Nova Ltd., Zagreb, from April 1, 2017 , and she came from the position of Head of Back Office and Accounting , investment fund management company, HPB Invest Ltd. Zagreb.
She graduated in 1986, from the Faculty of Economics at University of Zagreb and she continued formal education. She holds the position of Authorized Professional Accountant by the Croatian Accountant Association in Zagreb and the member of the Association since 1998.
In 2009 she has acquired the status of an Authorized Internal Auditor for the Economy by the Croatian Association of Accounting and Finance, and recently passed an exam of the Certified Professional Course, the Value Added Tax expert.
The long-standing experience of accounting manager is related to funds (Erste Invest Ltd.) and leasing companies (UniCredit leasing Croatia Ltd). Speciality and business interests are closely related in the field of taxation and auditing. Her free time she usually spends with family in hiking, recreational running and traveling.
