Functions of Accounts Dept and Computerisation

Functions of Accounts Dept and Computerisation

By Shri Uday Kiran Bora,

PS to PFA/SCR

Mobile No. 92423 23381

Functions of Accounts department
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Book Keeping	Financial Scrutiny	Budget	Internal check	Bill passing/ prompt settlement	Tendering	Management accounting	No frauds and irregularities	Inspections or Internal Audit
Capital & Revenue Accounts (Accrual) = Profit & Loss Account, Balance sheet etc.	Finance Concurrence	Compilation	Expenditure	Voted = Expenditure, Establishment	Transparency	Statistics Data	Canons of Financial Propriety	Offices (SSO/A)
Finance Accounts (Cash)= Single Account Current and Appropriation Accounts – Statutory Audit	Need for Expenditure	Sanction/ Certification	Earnings	Charged = Establishment & Expenditure	No cartel/ring formation	Traffic costing	Computerised Environment	Stations (Sr. TIAs)
	Financial Justification & Rate of Return	Exchequer control						Stores (Sr. ISA/ASVs)
Computerisation (CRIS – IT ARM OF INDIAN RAILWAYS)
Book Keeping	Financial Scrutiny	Budget	Internal check	Bill passing/ prompt settlement	Tendering	Management accounting	No frauds and irregularities	Inspections or Internal Audit
IPAS	IRPSM	VeRBS	1. Expenditure	IPAS	IREPS	IPAS	ALL COMPUTER APPLICATIONS	WISE
e-Lekha Portal			IPAS		IMMS
e-Recon			IMMS
			2. Earnings
			FOIS
			UTS
			PRS
			POS
			PMS
			E-PAYMENT
			TAMS

Full forms of Abbreviations/Acronyms

IPAS	Integrated Payroll & Accounting System
E-RECON	Electronic Reconciliation
IRPSM	Indian Railways Projects Sanction & Management
VeRBS	VPN enabled Rail Budget System (VPN - Virtual Private Network)
iMMS	Integrated Material Management System
FOIS	Freight Operations Information System
UTS	Unreserved Ticketing System
PRS	Passenger Reservation System
POS	Point of Sale
PMS	Parcel Management System
E-Payment	Electronic Payment
TAMS	Traffic Accounts Management System
IREPS	Indian Railway Electronic Procurement System
WISE	Workshop Information System
CRIS	Centre for Rail Information System