The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Commission shall have the following functions and powers:
1. To ensure the implementation, compliance with, and monitoring of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards through the policies, procedures, controls, and records required by the National Accounting Office, in the National Groundwater, Irrigation, and Drainage Service, in order to guarantee timely and adequate accountability.
2. To ensure compliance with the instructions issued by the National Accounting Office.
3. To analyze and apply the Self-Assessment Matrix of International Public Sector Accounting Standards, in order to detect the gaps that hinder compliance with said standards at the institutional level, previously coordinating the participation of the primary recording units.
4. To prepare action plans in order to mitigate the gaps in International Public Sector Accounting Standards, establishing the persons responsible for generating information and the deadlines in accordance with the provisions of the National Accounting Office, with the participation of the primary recording units.
5. To establish the strategy for the adoption, implementation, and monitoring of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards, considering control elements such as coordination, communication, execution, and monitoring.
6. To include within the formal planning of the institution, the implementation process of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards, in order to establish the necessary technical and financial resources to facilitate compliance with the International Public Sector Accounting Standards and thereby issue financial statements with an optimal quality level that allow for the best decisions to be made at the managerial level.
7. To ensure that the implementation is carried out according to the guidelines issued by the governing body.
8. To participate in the training processes that the National Accounting Office establishes.
9. To train internally on the provisions of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards.
10. To keep a control of the compliance with agreements.
11. To issue a certification to the National Accounting Office regarding the functioning of the Commission, and the progress achieved on the action plans, on a quarterly basis, for the adoption and implementation of the International Public Sector Accounting Standards, and to incorporate them in the disclosure of the Statement of Notes to the Accounts within the Financial Statements quarterly.
12. Other tasks that the Board of Directors and the General Management of the National Groundwater, Irrigation, and Drainage Service designate, related to the implementation and compliance with the International Public Sector Accounting Standards.