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Design of an accounting system for different accounts in Cuba

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For the design of an Accounting System, the normative basis of the internal control system was consulted to later develop the specific accounting and financial procedures for the Sugar Industry Project Company, complementing Resolution No. 297/2003 and taking as The objective is to achieve greater efficiency in the performance of tasks, and an adequate systematization was achieved in the strategic, administrative and operational areas to become an integral tool for management .This allowed the application of an internal control tool contextualized with Resolution 60 of the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba, so that the degree of application and compliance with the control procedures established in the Provincial Project Office of MINAZ in Ciego de Ávila could be evaluated.. It was also convenient to apply, as far as the specific conditions of the Entity allowed it, the practice of rotating workers in their different jobs taking into account their knowledge and occupational level, which limited the risks of the commission of frauds making their discovery in the event of these occurring and also having the advantage of increasing work efficiency by achieving more comprehensive training.

Key words: norms, procedures, control.

SUMMARY

For the design of a system of rules based accounting internal control system and then develop specific accounting and financial procedures for the company's sugar industry projects, serving as a complement to the Resolution No 297/2003 and having consulted as aim to achieve greater efficiency in performing tasks, also adequate systematization in the strategic, managerial and operational level was achieved to become an integral tool of management. This allowed to apply internal control tool contextualized with Resolution 60 of the Comptroller General of the Republic of Cuba to then assess the degree of implementation and compliance with the procedures included in the provincial offices of the Ministry of Sugar in Ciego de Avila. Also proved convenient to apply, as far as the specific conditions of the Bank allowed it,the practice of rotating workers at different work stations taking into account their knowledge and occupational level, limiting the risks of making possible the commission of fraud discovery if they occur and also having the advantage of increasing the efficiency of work to get a more comprehensive training.

Keywords : rules, procedures, decisions.

INTRODUCTION

Internal control includes the organization plan, the methods and procedures that a company or business has established, constituted as a whole to obtain three main objectives: obtaining correct and secure financial information, safeguarding assets and efficiency. of operations.

The implementation of an accounting system is the tool that allows to control the mercantile and financial negotiations in order to obtain a greater productivity and use of resources. To carry out the procedure, the provisions of Resolution No. 54/2005 of the Ministry of Finance and Prices dated March 24 were taken into account, which regulates the elements to be taken into account in the cost manual that each entity must prepare from of the Cuban accounting standard and as part of the Internal Control System.

Recording and classifying the operations of the company, in order to report the economic facts in a pertinent way, allowing the tasks to be carried out according to the pre-established procedures, all under the control and supervision of the accountant of our Company. MINISTRY OF FINANCE AND PRICES Resolution No. 610 of March 1998 Financial Regulation related to the procedure of Accounting Registration and Control.

MATERIALS AND METHODS.

A bibliographic investigation was carried out to study the different sources of information that allowed to base, from the theoretical and methodological points of view, the aspects related to the implementation of an accounting system that would facilitate the company's accounting procedures. The background was reviewed and the evolution of the system was determined after the procedures were implemented.

ACCOUNTING SYSTEM

It constitutes an ordered and coherent structure through which all the necessary information of an entity is collected as a result of its operational activities, using all the resources that the accounting activity provides it and that when presented to the managers and shareholders will allow it to take the operational and financial decisions that help you manage the business.

Organization of the Accounting Register, Sub-division for the registration of primary Information.

DEFINITION

Internal control includes the organization plan, as well as the duly classified and coordinated methods, in addition to the measures adopted by the entity to protect its resources, aim at the accuracy and reliability of accounting information, support and measure the efficiency of operations. and the fulfillment of the plans, as well as to stimulate the observance of the established norms, procedures and regulations.

The implementation of internal control measures and the systematic implementation of controls and the application of divisions to eradicate the deficiencies detected must be prioritized areas for each manager and for all workers, which will result in increased economic efficiency and in the quality and positive result of the activities carried out by each entity.

In order to establish an effective internal control system, the organization of the entity must first be taken into account on the basis of certain principles, among which the following are essential:

  • Adequate division of labor, which guarantees that those responsible for the custody of the media and the preparation of primary documents do not have the authority to approve them and that both do not have the function or possibility of making entries in the accounting records; that is, that in no case does a single person have full control of an operation. This also makes it possible for the task carried out by one worker to imply the verification of that carried out by another previously.
  • Guarantee that the procedures inherent to the control of economic operations, as well as the preparation and approval of the pertinent documents, allow determining in all cases the primary responsibility for all the entries and operations carried out, based on the conception that the rules and procedures structured on the basis of an adequate organization, foresee the functions of each area, that is, what needs to be done, as well as the consequent responsibilities of each one of the members of the same. The timely recording of all accounting operations must guarantee that all resources or services received or delivered are registered and at the same time serve as documentary evidence that specifies who executed, approved, registered and verified them.
  • Supervision of the operations reflected in each account and subaccount or analysis in a systematic way, by independent personnel to whom such annotations are made, in order to observe if the registered operations correspond to the content of each account.

Application to the accounting function

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For an Accounting System to guarantee efficient internal control, it must be made up of:

The Accounts Nomenclator, which specifies the accounts, subaccounts and analyzes, both for general and specific use that must be used by the entity, according to the activities it carries out.

Definition of the content and use of the accounts, subaccounts and analyzes, especially those of specific use, established according to the peculiarities of the entity, as well as the clarifications that proceed in those of general use.

Integration and disclosure of the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and the Internal Control Principles to be completed by the entity.

  • Compilation of the Norms and Procedures to apply, based on the regulations issued by global and branch organizations, as well as those specific to each entity, attending to the particularities of its activity and the requirements of its organization and management. Cost Accounting consistent with current regulations on this branch and national matter, conditioned to the particularities of the activities carried out by the entity and consistent with the organization of the production process or the provision of services. Establishment of the Internal Information System compatible with the Information System General in force for the entire economy, which guarantees the analysis needs at each level.Define the general aspects to be taken into consideration in order to adapt each of the subsystems that make up the Internal Control Subsystems.

Internal control Principles governing internal control Division of labor

The essence of this principle rests on the separation of functions of the operational unit of activities in such a way that a person does not have complete control of the operation, for which the work must be distributed so that an operation does not start and end in the person or department that started it. In this way the work of one person is verified by another, who works independently, but at the same time is verifying the operation performed, which makes it possible to detect errors or other irregularities.

The essential thing is to specify that the processes for preparing and approving the primary documents are carried out by people other than those who register them and these are not the ones that prepare and approve the Operations Receipts that serve as the basis for the annotations.

It is necessary to divide the different operations in such a way that the partial results of an operation can be verified with the result of their accounting.

This principle is extended to all administrative work activities and must be applied as far as the possibilities of the personnel allow, this means that despite the benefits offered by its application, it must be the object of logical adaptation when the staff is small, Increasing staff for this purpose should be the last of the alternatives, when there is no other solution, since it must be borne in mind that the cost of a control must not exceed the benefits derived.

In accordance with what has been stated, the Company defines the following:

The division

Warehouses (Underwriting)

In the activity of warehouses, the workers who carry the inventory sub-majors do not have access to the stowage cards nor to the pallets themselves. They are also prohibited from dispatching merchandise. They only participate in the physical taking of partial or total inventories with the presence of the dependent of the area of ​​responsibility. The clerk and manager of warehouses do not have access to the inventory sub-majors or to the exit, entry or other documents after their filing in accounting, also the reception is carried out without the invoice document or drives using the blind reception method, The deliveries of resources in the warehouses are carried out taking into account the resolution of authorized signatures in the warehouses, which also describes the products that these can extract in each case.They do not have external personal access to the warehouses and their pallets, as well as their documentation. Only those authorized by the director of the Company and in the company of the storekeeper. Warehouse workers as well as the head of supply do not have authorized signatures to extract resources and those who do are prohibited from making purchases. In addition, buyers are not authorized to sign requests for materials.Additionally, buyers are not authorized to sign requests for materials.Additionally, buyers are not authorized to sign requests for materials.

Production

Executes the control of production from the physical point of view, giving to accounting the reports of men days for each project, reconciling the production in process, detecting possible deviations or stoppages, as well as the cost by weight and controls the physical execution of each contract, according to the organizational structure of the Unit, it makes the sales invoices for finished services and controls in the enabled registry the collection of the same.

Commercial:

The Commercial specialist is in charge of the job search for the technical department, according to the organizational structure, invoicing the sales, having blank invoices pre-numbered, creating the mechanisms to develop a good management in the collections that this helps to the liquidity of the entity

Human Resources

The human resources department delivers the Payroll Data Control, payment reports and payrolls, as appropriate, to accounting. The payment reports are filed by the accounting department in their original document, both those corresponding to the normal salary payment in national currency, Payment by result in MN and Foreign Currency Stimulation. This department controls the employment contracts of any kind and the work attendance, as well as these are computed for the preparation of the payment reports.

AND

The Specialist B Economic Management (Esp. Principal) has the responsibility of directing and organizing the economic and accounting activity, and in the UEBs work to coordinate and control the preparation of the economic technical plan as well as to evaluate the entity's situation. Define the correct segregation of duties between operational, administrative and custody within the scope of action, guaranteeing that no department controls the accounting records related to its operations and that no worker controls all phases of a transaction. His authority is defined in terms of the activity he directs and all those departments that, due to their close connection with the economy, may affect the good economic development of the company in accounting policy, internal control, finance, costs and prices in additionis empowered to request disciplinary measures from those officials and leaders who fail to comply with economic and control policy, both in finance and accounting, and other economic matters. Its authority is also defined in determining the implementation of the different control systems, computer programs, and exploitation of cyber equipment.

Specialist B Economic Management (Accounting)

Specialist B Economic Management (Financier)

Specialist B Economic Management (Planning)

The functions of these specialists are determined in each Unit in correspondence with the internal distribution that has been made in the Accounting and Finance Department, previously established in the design of the position of each one.

Cash on Hand is responsible in each entity for keeping cash and cash equivalents in an appropriate place that offers guarantees against theft, fire, etc. observing the current provisions dictated by the Central Bank of Cuba and the Ministries of Finance and Prices and of Economy and Planning.

Cash in Bank represents the existence of the monetary means deposited in bank accounts that operate in the entity.

CASH BANKING ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES

Bill Subaccount Detail Partial Should To have
101 Cash in bank XXX
01 Current operations XXX
135 Short-term accounts receivable XXX
01 MINAZ sector XXX
05 Non-MINAZ sector XXX
340 Various accounts receivable XXX
01 MINAZ sector
05 Non-MINAZ sector
341 Financial Relations Between Units XXX
01 Commercial operations between units XXX
164 Debt State Budget XXX
05 Partial disability XXX
39 Other Debts XXX
167 Debt Higher Body XXX
09 Others XXX

INVENTORY ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES

They represent the value attributed to the work objects of the company that constitutes its productive reserves, production in process, merchandise in circulation and other means that, due to their peculiarity, are included in this group.

Bill Subaccount Detail Partial Should To have
189 Raw materials and materials XXX
01 Groceries XXX
02 materials XXX
191 Parts and Spare Parts XXX
192 Returnable Containers and Packaging XXX
01 In warehouse XXX
193 Tools and Tools XXX
01 In warehouse XXX
196 Goods For Sale XXX
410 Debts to pay XXX
01 MINAZ sector XXX
05 Non-MINAZ sector XXX
413 Accounts Payable in Foreign Currency XXX
01 MINAZ sector XXX
05 Non-MINAZ sector XXX
568 Financial Relations Between Units XXX
01 Commercial operations between units XXX

FIXED ACTIVE ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES

Means of work intended for the provision of services or material production, which conserves its useful life for a long time, generally more than an economic period, and which gradually transfer its value to the finished product or services rendered.

Bill Subaccount Detail Partial Should To have
240 Fixed assets XXX
01 Buildings XX
02 Other Constructions XX
03 Machines and Energy Equipment XX
04 Productive Machines and Equipment XX
05 Special Technical Devices and Equipment XX
06 Transportation Means and Equipment XX
07 Furniture and Other Objects XX
08 Animals XX
421 Accounts Payable AFT-MLC XXX
01 Business XXX
02 State XXX
422 Accounts Payable AFT-MN XXX
01 Business XXX
02 State XXX

ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES PAYROLLS

It constitutes the document that formalizes the collection of workers for concepts of wages and salaries, vacations, subsidies, bonuses or links, obtaining their agreement by signing this document.

Bill Subaccount Detail Partial Should To have
822 Administrative expenses XXX
09 Other Activities (Expenditure Element) XXX
700 Main Production in Process XXX
03 Debits Years (Element Expense) XXX
731 Indirect Production Expenses XXX
09 Other Activities (Expenditure Element) XXX
865 Other expenses XXX
01 Dining room and Cafeterias (Expenditure Element) XXX
492 Provision for Holidays XXX
440 Obligations with the State Budget XXX
02 Social Security XXX
04 Personal Tax Special Social Security XXX
05 Personal credits XXX
06 Linked Homes XXX

CONCLUSIONS.

The accounting and financial standards and procedures manual contains the regulatory basis as part of the internal control system, complements Resolution No. 60/2011 and aims to achieve greater efficiency in the performance of tasks, in addition to achieving adequate systematization in the strategic, administrative and operational fields to become an integral tool for management. It constitutes a work guide for the accounting departments of the Engineering and Projects Company located in the Central Office, UEB Occidente, Centro Oeste, Centro este and the Provincial Offices of Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, Ciego de Ávila, Las Tunas, Holguín and Granma, being mandatory in the entire accounting process.

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Design of an accounting system for different accounts in Cuba