1. Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
Group #3
Azerbaijan, Republic of Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine
Baku, Azerbaijan 
April 12,  2018

2. Part 1: Snap Poll
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3. 1. Budget organizations (BO) perform accounting and financial reporting by means of:
Response options
Сountries
Central FMIS of MOF/ Treasury
 Georgia (partially)
Standard software provided or recommended by MOF/Treasury
 Belarus, Кazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Moldova
Non-standard software
Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova
Other (specify)
Azerbaijan

4. 2. Budget organizations submit their financial reports
Response options
Сountries
Directly via central FMIS at MOF/Treasury
 Belarus, Ukraine
Via web portal supported by MOF/Treasury
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Moldova
Using other e-format (specify)
 Belarus (special software)
Paper-based
 Georgia
Other (specify)

5. 3. Financial reports are submitted:
Response options
Сountries
From lower-level BOs directly to MOF/Treasury
From lower-level BOs to the next administrative level (e.g. rayon, oblast etc. which in turn submit reports to the center)
 Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine
In some other sequence (specify)
Not all levels of BOs submit financial reports

6. 4. Consolidation of financial reports
Response options
Countries
Automated in central FMIS of MOF/Treasury
 Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan
Аutomated in some other information system (specify)
 Мoldova
Partially automated; requires additional manual operations
 Аzerbaijan
By means of spread sheets, data bases
Other (specify)
 Georgia

7. Part 2 - Discussion
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8. Ongoing/planned reforms to improve accounting automation at BO level
Centralization of accounting at the MOF – Kazakhstan
Designing a new FMIS to ensure automation – Belarus
Accounting automation (expansion) at BO level – Azerbaijan
Designing a uniform software for accounting and financial reporting (to become mandatory) – Ukraine
Total coverage of all transactions by the system (by 2020), recording all revenue transactions in the single treasury system (analytics by 2018) – Georgia
Outsourcing of accounting services – Moldova
Designing a single cloud budget accounting solution to integrate with FMIS - Moldova

9. Challenges and Possible Solutions
Selection of software to centralize budget accounting and financial reporting (Kazakhstan)
Difficulties in making decisions at the new system design stage, human factor (training of the new system users) – Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan.
Need to consider specificities of various organizations, inadequate personnel capacity, staff turnover (Georgia)