Overseeing National Accounts Data of Budgetary Institutions by the Hungarian State Treasury

Abstract

Overseeing national accounts data was conducted by the State Audit Office from 1989 up until 1995, when the Hungarian State Treasury was set up by the National Assembly, which currently manages and audits national budgetary transactions, and also audits financial transactions conducted by other budgetary institutions.
The present study focuses on the operation of the Budgetary Information Office. The framework for the audits conducted and for processing and analysing the data generated is relatively new and is still being developed. In order to achieve high efficiency of both transactions and auditing, and meet the standards stipulated, high level developments have been implemented in the informatics background of such operations.
The wide variety of accounting softwares used by different budgetary institutions still poses some difficulty for the informatics systems developers and users of KGR-K11, as data provided by budgetary institutions all over the country need to be processed in a single framework in order to balance treasury and ledger accounts. However, as a result, annual budget reports are now conducted in a timely manner.
The KGR-K11 system has made a significant contribution to the accurate and efficient management of adhering to regulations; in addition, omissions or inaccuracies are revealed in time and can be rectified sooner. On the whole, data are provided and audited faster and more efficiently, even though the system is still being developed.