Treasury Diagnostic Toolkit
Improvement in the management of public finances in developing countries has been an increasingly important focus of World Bank and IMF assistance to member countries. A key element in such assistance is the development of effective treasury system...
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2013
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/11/2875625/treasury-diagnostic-toolkit http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15062 |
Summary: | Improvement in the management of public
finances in developing countries has been an increasingly
important focus of World Bank and IMF assistance to member
countries. A key element in such assistance is the
development of effective treasury systems. Treasury systems
form the backbone for recording and processing all financial
transactions related to the budget for any level of
government. An integrated treasury system offers several
significant benefits in managing public monies more
effectively, including, greater financial control, improved
monitoring of the governments cash position, and better
planning of future requirements, better fiscal reporting,
and availability of better data for budget formulation. The
establishment of an effective treasury system will also
contribute directly to improving the transparency and
accountability of government. (b) Costing Model: Information
system features obtained as a result of completing the
detailed Treasury Systems Questionnaire described in Chapter
1 can be linked in to a simple costing model (described in
Chapter 2) to generate first stage estimates of the likely
cost of a comprehensive investment program. Chapter 2 sets
out a costing for a typical program for illustrative
purposes only, although the model has now been used in
actual program development in several countries as the base
for project development. (c) Application Software
Questionnaire: Chapter 3 of this paper is intended to assist
Treasury managers in the process of selecting appropriate
application software from the wide range of options that are
now available in the market. This part of the questionnaire
focuses on Treasury specific requirements that are not
commonly found in a statement of requirements for commercial
accounting systems. It is intended to provide Treasury
managers in client countries a benchmark to determine the
goodness of fit of the major products on the market with the
core Treasury functional processes and requirements. |
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