REPUBLIQUE DU CAMEROUN Paix – Travail - Patrie MINISTERE DES FINANCES !img-0.jpeg REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON Peace – Work - Fatherland MINISTRY OF FINANCE 00004108 Circular-Letter No. _________________________ /LC/MINFI of __________ 28 AVR 2021 Relating to electronic data exchange between the structures of the Ministry of Finance.
The Minister of Finance
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- The Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance;
- The Inspectors General of the Ministry of Finance;
- The Director General of Budget;
- The Director General of Customs;
- The Director General of Taxation;
- The Director General of the Treasury, Financial and Monetary Cooperation;
- The Director of Standardization and Stores-Accounting;
- The Director of Financial Resources;
- The Director of Human Resources;
- The Head of the Forecasting Division;
- The Head of the Information Systems Division.
Subject: Data exchange between structures of the Ministry of Finance.
The various CEMAC countries have embarked on a major movement to reform the management of public finances, with a view to aligning with international standards.
Consecrated by the Directives of the CEMAC harmonized framework of public finances of 19 December 2019 and the law on the fiscal regime of the State and other public entities, the said reform concerns in particular the budgetary component through the advent
of the programme budget, and the accounting component, materialized by the introduction of accruals accounting similar to business accounting.
Much more deeply, the reform marks a point of honour on transparency in public management, improving the quality and sincerity of budgetary, accounting and financial information of public entities.
This triple quality requirement calls for the development of an appropriate budgetary and accounting information system capable of providing regular, faithful and sincere information on the execution of the budget, the keeping and production of public accounts as well as the changes in the assets and financial situation of public entities.
This circular, which relates to the interconnection of the business applications of the various structures involved in the process of carrying out budgetary and accounting operations, aims to guarantee the integrity and security of the data exchanged between the various structures.
The objective being to eradicate manual interventions in data exchanges by establishing systematic sharing and pooling of the latter.
The specific context of the exchanges
The PPBM chain (Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Monitoring - evaluation) is monitored at the Ministry of Finance by several ad hoc structures ensuring various related missions. Each structure to accomplish its mission needs information from other structures to ensure consistency and accuracy in summary statements.