About 80 percent of the transactions and work in the finance division of the Mindanao Development Authority (Minda) is still done manually despite the available accounting system.
Minda Finance Division Supervising Administrative Officer Aurora Cuello said government leaders should have a changed mindset towards e-governance for convenience and a more efficient delivery of service to the citizens.
Cuello said the Commission of Audit (COA) piloted the National Government Accounting System (NGAS) in 2000 however not all accounting departments of government agencies are using NGAS. She added the Disbursement Accounting System (DAS) they currently use under NGAS needs manual encoding of disbursements and entries to reflect to the NGAS as it is not capable of producing vouchers and reports.
“It’s actually redundancy…The system is there but we have to encode everything in order to generate the reports on an annual basis, unlike the other countries who are into e-governance. They do everything online from budgeting, accounting, to disbursement,” said Cuello who was also part of the Philippine delegation who went to South Korea for a weeklong Global Distance Learning Network Program (GDLNP).
In South Korea, she said, the general mandate of their government is to have an efficient delivery of service for the contentment of its citizen. Cuello said if all the leaders of the country have the same mindset, then planning and doing towards e-governance will move.
“As for our part, we can only share what we learned in South Korea but as for implementation, it’s really up to the leaders. They have to be oriented with what was taught there as well,” she said.
The accounting book reports of Minda is also available for download and viewing at the COA website although it is not real time, as according to Cuello, it takes them about five to six months from closing of the books to upload the data online.
She added COA is set to launch the updated version of their NGAS and Minda plans to set an appointment with COA to have their own NGAS upgraded for a more efficient service.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Jennie P. Arado
Quelle/Source: Sun Star, 15.01.2017
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