Project Money Trail’s primary focus is, initially, on Slovenian journalists with a demonstrated pre-existing interest in the topics that its workshops will cover, because they are the easiest for a Slovenia-based NGO to successfully attract. Working primarily with local journalist will also make it easier for Project Money Trail to evaluate the success of the project. Project Money Trail has a secondary focus on regional journalists for its current workshops in part because Project Money Trail intends to expand its program beyond Slovenia, in part because educating regional journalists is a way for Project Money Trail to ensure that the influence of its workshops is wide ranging and long lasting and in part because regional journalists will bring a valuable range of perspectives and experience to these workshops. For later workshops, as Project Money Trail succeeds in reaching its initial goal of educating Slovenian journalists and journalism-focused educators, Project Money Trail’s focus will shift to prioritize journalists and educators from other countries in the region. Project Money Trail’s approach will build on that of a successful Croatian program with similar, although more limited objectives. Project Money Trail will reach a different (Slovenian and regional) audience than the Croatian program, and will also be more ambitious in its goals, including in particular the creation of a universally accessible teaching and learning tool, the website described above.

1. Presentation of the role of financial statements in finance,
management and taxation with concrete examples of their
value to reporters (e.g. analysis of state-owned companies’
bonus policies; tax avoidance policies of multinationals.
Introduction to fundamentals of financial, managerial and tax
reporting for journalists, including the basic principles and
vocabulary of bookkeeping and accounting; introduction to
finance
Marko Rakar
@mrak
mrakar@mrak.biz
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markorakar/

2. Benedetto Cotrugli (Croatian: Benedikt "Beno" Kotruljević; 1416–1469)
was a Ragusan merchant, economist, scientist, diplomat and humanist.
Cotrugli was born in the city of Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), part of the
Republic of Ragusa.
The earliest extant copy of his manuscript Libro de l'Arte de la Mercatura
(Book on the Art of Trade) is kept in the National Library of Malta and is
dated 1475, although the original manuscript was dated 1458. The text
of his 1458 manuscript Della mercatura e del mercante perfetto is
followed by an appendix containing an inventory and many journal
entries. It predates the description made by Luca Pacioli of the modern
double-entry system in his Summa de arithmetica of 1494.
As a diplomat of the Kingdom of Naples, he spent some 15 years in the
Court of Naples where he led many discussions and polished his
thoughts on humanist subjects.
He died in Aquila, in the Kingdom of Naples.
In 2007 The Croatian state devoted to Cotrugli (as the alleged inventor of
double entry bookkeeping) a silver 150 kuna commemorative coin.
Benedetto Cotrugli is the patron of the Cotrugli business school with
branches in Zagreb, Belgrade and Ljubljana.