AAAG Baseline Survey - The East and Southern African Association of Accountants-General

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1. Has your Country undertaken any Budget Reforms? YesNo

2. When were these implemented?
3. Is it a Partial or full implementation FullPartial

4. If Partial, what remains to be implemented?

5. Was a business case or similar document presented? YesNo

6. Is this document available for review?

7. Has progress been measured against the expected benefits? YesNo

8. How was the qualification done? FormallyInformally

9. Please outline your informal qualification

10. Please provide any relevant scorecards:

11. Has your Country Implemented IFMIS? YesNo

12. When was this implemented?

13. Which Software is being used ?

14. Have all systems been Integrated? YesNo

15. If not integrated, what is outstanding and why?

16. What are the plans for integrating the outstanding Systems?

17. Was a business case or similar document presented? YesNo

18. Is this document available for review? YesNo

19. Has progress been measured against the expected benefits? YesNo

20. How was the qualification done? FormallyInformally

21. Please outline your informal qualification

22. Please provide any relevant scorecards:

23. To what extent have legacy systems been integrated?
SomeHalfwayMostDone

24. Are work processes incorporated into the system? YesNo

25. How are approvals made?

26. How are approvals integrated thereafter?

27. How are the workflows working?

28. To what extent are paper systems being used?
Hardly at allMore than should be requiredToo much

29. What plans are there for backup?

30. Is there a documented approval system manual?
YesNo

31. How many times has it been revised?

32. Has any system breakdown taken place since inception YesNo

33. Indicate maximum downtime for [DRS]

34. Do you have a system recovery process in [DRS] in place YesNo

35. Has your Country Implemented IPSAS? YesNo

36. Is there a Roadmap? YesNo

37. What are the Roadmap considerations?

38. Do you have an Implementation Consultant? YesNo

39. Is there a plan for skills transfer @ handover? YesNo

40. How is the Roadmap rollout?

41. What obstacles have been encountered, if any?

42. Are you able to share Roadmap with AAAG Secretariat?

43. Has any IPSAS Annual Financial Statements been Audited? YesNo

44. Can you share the report?

44. Is there any IPSAS-related documents you can and want to share?

45. Has your Country undertaken any PFM Reforms YesNo

46. I acknowledge that we haven't implemented PFM reforms

47. Has your Country implemented Public Finance Management Legislation? YesNo

48. When was it promulgated?

49. Has it been fully disseminated to all Staff? YesNo

50. Is it part of orientation/induction of new employees? YesNo

51. How is this orientation conducted?

52. Is effectiveness measured? YesNo

53. How is effectiveness measured?

54. Is there a practical reference point, like a Booklet/Literature? YesNo

55. How is this disseminated?

56. Is there a plan for revision? YesNo

57. What is the determinant for the revision?

58. Is there legislation that governs Accountants in the Country? YesNo

59. Does the law govern all or some of the Accountants?

60. Does your Country have local Professionalization of Accounting and Audit professionals?
YesNo

61. Does Internal Audit form part of the office of the AG structure? YesNo

62. Does your Country have a Professional Accounting Organization [PAO]? YesNo

63. Are public Sector Accounting Officials allowed to register as full members? YesNo

64. How many Accounting Officials are in the AG Office incl. internal audit if part of AG Office?

65. How many are members of the PAO?

66. Which organisation is responsible for HR in the Country?

67. Is there a service recognition structure? YesNo

68. Are Accounting professionals recognized in the structure? YesNo

69. Which professionals are recognised?

70. Are there incentives for the Accounting Officials to attain qualifications? YesNo

71. Are these in the conditions/scheme of service? YesNo

72. Are measures in place to retain Accounting Officials? YesNo

73. Are measures in place to trace qualifications & training as staff move from one Ministry Department or Agency [MDA] to the other YesNo