FFARS TAMISEMI; Facility Financial Accounting and Reporting System

FFARS TAMISEMI

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Facilities or service providers are key organs at the lower level of government that deal with the direct provision of services to the citizens. They are therefore wings of Local Government Authorities (LGAs) and hence accountable to the same.

For quite some time, accounting and reporting system at the facility level has been characterized by individual sectoral systems, health and education sectors being dominant. This has led to a lack of a unified system of accounting and reporting and difficulties in LGAs capturing accurately expenditures spent at the facility level.

There are also significant current developments aimed at improving the LGA Planning and Reporting System (PlanRep) as well as the LGA accounting software (EPICOR). These improvements aim to make the high-level LGA systems interoperable or able to talk/integrate with Facility Financial Accounting and Reporting System (FFARS) especially on planning & budgeting (PlanRep), and expenditures tracking (EPICOR).

There is a significant increase of funds at the disposal of the facilities. For instance, the government, with effect from 1st January 2016 started disbursing funds for education directly to facility bank accounts (primary and secondary schools) to cover capitation grants, compensation for school fees, and food.

Similarly, on the side of the health sector, user fees, results-based financing (RBF), community health fund (CHF), and National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) are disbursed directly to health facility bank accounts, and health basket funds (HBF) will start being disbursed directly to health facility bank accounts with effect from 1st July 2017.

The requirements of laws, regulations, and standards must also be considered. For instance, IPSAS 35, effective from 1st January 2017, demands consolidated financial statements which include accounts of all levels in the LGA i.e. both higher and lower government levels.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for the existence of a sound and proper system of accounting, financial management, and reporting (as required by law) at the facility level to ensure maintenance of complete, realistic, and accurate accounting records; preparation of timely and realistic financial reports and ensure proper accounting and utilization of financial resources received by and/or availed to facilities hence contribute to effective and quality delivery of services.

In that endeavor, PO-RALG, MoHCDGEC, MoEST in collaboration with PS3 and HPSS worked together to develop this system to address the above-mentioned challenges and arising issues.

The responsible authorities are well aware that introducing FFARS is an ambitious effort that must be accomplished step-by-step including the shift from manual to automated systems. Facilities can manage and perform financial accounting and reporting and are already undertaking many of the tasks.

FFARS TAMISEMI will help them consolidate, improve and link current accounting and reporting activities through a strengthened and comprehensive system.

The link between Local Government accounting at council and facility levels.

The accounting activities at the facility level are part and parcel of the accounting activities at the council level and thus directly link the two as explained below:

  1. Planning and budgeting at the facility level feed into the planning and budgeting at the Council level. Hence budget codes used at the council level will also apply at the facility level i.e. cost Centre codes, fund type, same GFS codes for inputs
  2. Classification of income and expenditure items will be the same at both levels.
  3. Coding of transactions at the facility level will be according to the coding at the LGA level.
  4. Actual expenditures at the facility level are accumulated to determine budget performance over a given period of time e.g. end of the year at the LGA level.
  5. Preparation of financial reports at the facility level should allow consolidation of the same into the LGA accounts.
  6. Auditing undertaken at the facility level is part and parcel of the auditing taking place at the LGA levels, such as ethics, standards, and performance

1.1 Chart of Account Coding systems As already explained in earlier sub-section 1.2, the coding system used within the LGA, which includes facilities as part and parcel of the LGA is the guiding system across all facilities.

However, at the facility level, there will be fewer coding segments, at most four (4) segments to enable simplicity at this level. The following segments will constitute the coding system at the facility level:

  • Facility Code- This is the facility registration number
  • Fund Source Code- Code number as provided in the LGA Chart of Accounts
  • Activity Code- Code number as provided in the LGA Chart of Accounts
  • Input Code- Code number as provided in the GFS Manual

An example related to a service input for the health sector: Facility: Fulwe Dispensary in Morogoro Region, Fund Source: Community health financing schemes (NHIF and User Fees). Activity: Train 6 in charge of health facilities for 3 days on Malaria prevention. Input: Allowance.

Facility Code Fund Source Code
101159-2 8
Activity Code Input Code
 ABCDSS 210303

An example related to a service output or actual delivery of services to population: Facility: Fulwe Dispensary in Morogoro Region, Fund Source: Community health financing schemes (NHIF and User Fees). Activity: deliver malaria services to the population Input: maybe supplies, lab tests, and drugs? To show that different inputs will combine to produce malaria service output?

Facility Code Fund Source Code Activity Code Input Code
101159-2 8
101159-2 8
101159-2 8

Purpose of this FFARS TAMISEMI Guide

This manual has been prepared to provide for a unified, simple, and practical system (both paper and electronic system) of accounting and reporting covering all sectors at the facility level. It will therefore act as a reference and working tool at this level geared towards guiding the facility officials in ensuring proper accounting, utilization, and reporting of all financial resources (both own and external financial resources) that are availed at the facility.

Scope

This Manual applies to all types of facilities in the Education and Health sectors such as Primary School and Secondary School for the Education Sector and, Dispensary and Health Center for Health.

Compliance with Legal Requirements

This manual complies and refers to various laws, regulations, standards, and circulars as listed below: Public Finance Act (2001) as revised 2004 and amended 2010 Local Government Finance Act (1982) revised edition 2000 Local Authority Financial Memorandum (LAFM), 2009 Local Authorities’ Accounting Guideline (LAAM), 2009 Public Procurement Act (2011) as amended 2016 and its related Regulations Budget Act (2015) IPSAS related to Local Government Authorities PlanRep and Epicor Implementation in Local Government Authorities.

Various reporting formats such as Council Financial Report (CFR) and Council Development Report (CDR). Government Financial Statistics (GFS) codes in the Local Authorities Accounting. * Other instruments from sectors (Health, Education and other sectors.

FFARS System overview

FFARS is an application that allows recording Budget disbursement, expenditure, and generating reports at the Facility level, Council lever, Regional level, and Ministry level. The application provides an electronic version of Facility level Facility Financial Accounting and Reporting System. The application serves data collected to Database and it operates on mobile devices with android application system and also through the web application.

Organization of manuals.

The user manual consist of five sections:

  • General information,
  • System summary,
  • Getting started,
  • Using the System and Report.

General information explains in general terms the system and its purpose for which it is intended.

The system summary section provides a general overview of the system, the summary explains the use of software and hardware requirement, system configuration, and the access level and system behavior of any challenges.

The getting started section explains how to get FFARS and install it on the device(mobile device), the section presents briefly the system menu.

Using the system provides a detailed description of the system functions.

Reporting section describes in what way information collected by the system is presented and how to access the information.

FFARS TAMISEMI System summary

Provide a general overview of the system, the summary explains the use of software and hardware requirement, system configuration, and the access level and system behavior of any challenges

System configuration.

FFARS operates both as a web-based application as well as a mobile application. As the mobile application is compatible with android 4.1 and the higher version. The application requires an internet connection to access the application use and serve data to the database. Data served in the database can be viewed using any web browser. After installation on a mobile device, FFARS can be used without any further configuration.

FFARS User access level

Only registered users can access, use, retrieve data and serve data to the FFARS database.

The system is divided into four user levels and is categorized according to their functionalities to suit the needs of Users.

  • Ministry level(Super Admin Level)
  • Region Level
  • Council Level
  • Facility Level,

2.3 Contingencies In case there is no internet connection or disruption of internet connection, data can be served locally. In case of power failure on your device(computer, laptop, or mobile device) data can not be served

Getting Started With FFARS TAMISEMI

By the time you have received this manual and you want to access FFARS, you should already have access to the internet. This manual assumes the following:  You have provided a Uniform Resource Locator (URL):ffars.herokuapp.com  You have an administrative privilege on the site. If you do not have a username/password, contact for developers.

FFARS Login

Username and Password will be provided by the appropriate level. After the first login, the system will take you out so as to change the default Password by choosing the password of their choices. To login into FFARS TAMISEMI open your browser and type the following address http://196.192.72.106 USE DIRECT LINK The following interface will appear

FFARS TAMISEMI

FFARS TAMISEMI HOMEPAGE

After successfully entering a correct User name and Password you will be directed to the Dashboard which shows the amount of Money received, expenditure, and balance for every level of users

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