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Monday, November 8, 2004 - The Ministry of Finance is re-engineering the business processes of the Government of Saint Lucia. The Ministry has been collaborating with the Eastern Caribbean Economic Management Programme (ECEMP) in executing the exercise dubbed “Strengthening Financial Management.”

The project, which will specifically introduce a new Payables and Purchasing System for the government, is being spearheaded by the Department of the Accountant General. Accountant General, Mr. Agosta Degazon said the project had covered two critical phases and was now into its third phase.

“Our five core business practices identified under this project are Accounting, Funds Management, HR, Payroll, and Procurement. It also involves reviewing our legal framework. There will also be a review of our organisation and revised job descriptions to go along with those streamlined procedures”. Mr. Degazon explained.

Team Leader for Procurement, Tessa Felicien said the Accountant General’s Department now delivers a faster service, particularly since the tedious Voucher System had been discontinued and is being replaced by an automated process.

“With the voucher system, what you had at first was this manual system, whereby you had both the procurement and the LPO (Local Purchase Order) joined with the invoice.
Customers constantly complain that Treasury is taking way too long in the processing of vouchers, when in fact, sometimes the system was very involved”, Miss Felicien explained.

Currently all governments departments are electronically connected via the new financial system known as Smartstream.

 

 


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