FAAC
FAAC
AGF to Review Treasury Forms, Account Documents of MDAs
for Uniformity
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF)
has commenced a comprehensive review of treasury forms and other
accounting source documents in use in all Federal Ministries,
Department and Agencies.
The review is in exercise of the mandate of the Accountant
General of the Federation (AGF) under FR.107 (n) to issue
officially approved forms bearing treasury numbers for use in all
Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies to ensure
uniformity.
Already, the Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris
FCNA, has inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee to handle the
review of the documents.
Speaking at the inauguration of the committee, Ahmed said the
committee was expected to identify all treasury forms and
accounting source documents presently in use; come up with new
formats in line with the public financial reforms; recommend
additions or deletions of the contents; assign relevant number
systems to the treasury forms and review the documents in line with
GIFMIS operations.
He stressed that in carrying out the assignment, the committee
should be guided by the Federal Governments quest for adoption of
e-governance at all levels and the fact that all the public finance
reforms initiatives being driven by the Treasury are predicated on
full deployment of ICT solutions.
On the rationale for the review of the documents, Ahmed noted
that the contents of the treasury forms and other accounting source
documents in use were no longer relevant and useful to drive the
various public finance management reforms of the Federal
Government, which are mostly ICT-driven.
He explained that a comprehensive review and update of these
accounting source documents was thus imperative for an efficient
and successful implementation of governments financial management
reforms.
He reiterated the governments resolve to ensure a successful
review of the documents and charged the committee to give the
assignment all amount of seriousness it deserves and deliver on
time.
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