Template for Comments - MFMA - National Treasury

REGULATIONS ON A STANDARD CHART OF ACCOUNTS

Contents

1. Purpose...1

2. Contact Information...2

3. General Comments... 3

4. Specific Requests for Comments: The Draft SCOA Regulation...3

5. The SCOA Segment Detail...4

5.1 The Fund Segment...4

5.2 The Function Segment...4

5.3 The Item Segment - Revenue...5

5.4 The Item Segment - Expenditure...6

5.5 The Item Segment – Assets, Liabilities and Net Assets...6

5.6 The Project Segment...7

5.7 The Regional Segment...7

6. The Executive Summary and Project Summary Document...8

7. Terminology... 8

8. Minimum Business Process Requirements...9

9. Minimum Specifications for Financial and Related Systems...9

1. Purpose

The Draft Municipal Regulations on the Standard Chart of Accounts had been published for comments by the Minister of Finance in the Government Gazette in Notice 892 of 2013. Provision is made for a 90 day period for submitting comments.

Please forward your comments on or before 2 December 2013.

Comments to be submitted by:

Email: jan.hattingh@treasury.gov.za Fax: (012) 395-6552

Post: The Director-General National Treasury Private Bag X115 Pretoria

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Hand: Room HB-03.05 40 Church Square Pretoria

You are required to comment on the following:

 The Draft SCOA Regulation

 The SCOA Segment Detail

 The Executive Summary and Project Summary Document

 Terminology

 Minimum Business Process Requirements – Draft Version 1 – 30 August 2013

 Minimum Specifications for Financial and Related Systems – Draft Version 1 – 30 August 2013

The above documents are available from the National Treasury Web at www.treasury.gov.za under http://mfma.treasury.gov.za/RegulationsandGazettes.

Please add rows to the tables provided hereunder for recording your comments would it be necessary.

All comments received need to be recorded in a comments register and considered as part of concluding the formal consultation process. The outcomes of these would in similar fashion to the comments collected as part of the informal consultation be made available as part of the project documents.

2. Contact Information

We request the Provincial Treasurers to please consolidate the comments from the province in this template to assist National Treasury to consolidate all comments received during these informal consultations with our key stakeholders prior to the formal regulatory comments process.

Any other interest stakeholders please submitted your comments directly to National Treasury as indicated above.

Please complete the details are indicated hereunder to assist the project team in following up on any comments or information provided.

Provincial Treasury (Include name of the Province)

Other (Include name and Organisation Represented)

of the person compiling this document or to be contacted at the Provincial

Treasury)

Contact Detail of the Person to be Contacted in the

Province/Organisaton

Telephone number:

Email:

List the names of the municipalities providing comments and contact information:

Municipality Contact Person email

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3. General Comments

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4. Specific Requests for Comments: The Draft SCOA Regulation

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5. The SCOA Segment Detail 5.1 The Fund Segment

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5.2 The Function Segment

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5.3 The Item Segment - Revenue

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5.5 The Item Segment – Assets, Liabilities and Net Assets

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5.7 The Regional Segment

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6. The Executive Summary and Project Summary Document

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7. Terminology

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8. Minimum Business Process Requirements

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9. Minimum Specifications for Financial and Related Systems

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