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CIGAS has
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reduced the average
time Monthly Accounting to Treasury from 60 days to just 11
days.
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improved the
accuracy by bringing the errors from 11% in 1993 to 0.01% now.
(An error is defined as any entry rejected by treasury main
computer without reworking.)
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enriched the
accounting with more management information.
A team led by
Mr. Pius Fernando of the Department of State Accounts, General Treasury,
developed CIGAS. They captured and concentrated all the complex procedures
of Government Accounting, into this computer programs. The main functions integrated in CIGAS are;
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The main functions integrated in CIGAS are;
| · General Ledger |
· Scheduling |
| · Cash Books |
· Management Reports |
| · Bank Reconciliation |
· Imprest Accounts |
| · Monthly Accounts |
· Customer Lists |
| · Classifications |
· Description Lists |
| · Trial Balances |
· Imprest Reconciliation |
| · Journal |
· Advance Track |
| · Cheque Writing |
· Deposit Accounts |
| · Voucher Printing |
· Audit Trail |
| · Branch Accounts |
· Backup & Restore |
| · Consolidation |
· Cheque Cover Letters |
| · Appropriation Accts |
· Bank Letters |
| · Budgetary Control |
· Payroll |
| · Budget Appropriation |
· Staff Loan Accounting (with GPS Payroll |
| · Variations |
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Recent Developments Made to CIGAS
The CIGAS development team has again made significant developments to this software package on the request of the
user accounting units and some of the main developments done are:
- Capability to select the relevant part of national budget to a unit (Head) electronically from the full budget
included and re-appropriate to sub units, Generate re-appropriated budget on diskette and read in facility to sub units
- Auto Fixed Asset Reporting Features integrated for Appropriation Account reporting and for detail recording.
- Capability to work without the diskette drive using any available disk drive in the computer selected from a dynamic list for the purposes of
- Backup and Restore, Bulk Backup and Bulk Restore
- Send to Head Office on External (Pen) drive
- E-mail to Head Office
- Read from at Head Office on Pen drive or e-mail
- Read in Budget at Head Office and Sub Office.
- Facility to work with any type of currency i.e. US Dollar, Sterling Pound, Kuwait Dinar etc. any number of currencies concurrently with
automatic conversion capability to SL Rupees on-line.
- Appropriation Account as required by the latest format of the Department of State Accounts generated on-line.
- With Accrual Accounting Customized to work in
- Foreign Aid Projects such as World Bank,ADB,JICA
- Municipal Councils
- Sri Lanka Missions in Foreign Countries
- Provincial Councils
- Any other Business Unit.
- Most of the Reports re-written in better format for the printer on user request.
- Cheque writing formatted to the latest changes made to the cheque leaf by the Bank of Ceylon and the Peoples Bank.
- Capability to do Bank Reconciliation in a separate computer with electronically read in transaction records
from many cigas accounts computers.
- To Increase and Decrease Limits of Advance Accounts and Asset Liability Accounts with easy to use standards menu items
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