Representatives of
the Ministry of Finance, the MainCRO and the State Treasury
met on 18th of September this year on the premises of the MainCRO at the “round table” chaired by Deputy Chairman of
the MainCRO Ihor Stefaniuk with the view to consider current statue of
reformation of the public finance management system and ways of coordination of
work in this direction.
Chief
of the
Public Internal Financial Control Harmonization Department of the MainCRO Maryna Barynina informed about results of practical implementation
of the Twinning project “Assisting the MainCRO in implementing a new system of Public Internal
Financial Control (PIFC)” noting that the project had been carried out
successfully.
The
main achievements of the project are that it was done the first practical steps
of PIFC building in Ukraine after the European model: methodological base for internal
control and internal audit was produced; series of trainings in these matters
for specialists of public and communal sector authorities were held and 14
pilot projects were conducted; and a number of documents, which regulate
activity and development of the central harmonization unit, were developed, the
first future “trainers” were taught.
Approval
of the Strategy of Development of the State Control and Revision Service till
2015 and the Plan of Measures for Ensuring and Enhancing Quality of the Control
and Revision Work, and the Code of Ethics of the SCRS staff by the MainCRO have become additional results of the project.
Project
coordinator Ruslana Rudnytska
gave comments concerning achievements and failures in implementation of the
Twinning project.
Managers
of the Department of the Budget System Reformation of the Ministry of Finance Yulia Futoranska and Ihor Bugrak covered current state
of reformation of the public finance management system 5 segments of which are now
being developed. The Ministry of Finance coordinates implementation of the
Strategy of public finance management modernization, Strategy of accounting modernization,
Concept of local budgets reformation, Concept of the tax system reformation and
Concept of development of the public internal financial control.
Chief of the
Department of the State Treasury authorities modernization
Elina Volovenko reported
about achievements of the State Treasury in the direction of internal control
improvement. A number of internal documents being the system description have already
been developed in the STU, for instance, technological regulation, which covers
4 functions and consists of three parts – normative-legal base; description of
operations with a bloc-chart of processes and a technological card. The work of
internal inspectors had also been improved.
After discussion of three discourses
the participants of the "round table" defined basic directions of
reformation of the public finance management system, which need further support
and ways of improvement of coordination of work in this direction.
Summing up the meeting Deputy Chairman of
the MainCRO Ihor Stefaniuk underlined that while identifying objectives for
implementation of similar projects one needs to estimate real capabilities and
to determine tasks within the set timeframe.
