Budget Management, Controlling and Central Services

 OFFICE OVERVIEW - 1^st floor

The Administrative Support Unit for Budget Management team is in charge of the Department's financial tasks and budget management. These include:

 Medium-term orientation of budget management (medium-term budget/financial framework)

•  Preparation, evaluation and updating of the medium-term prognosis
• Application for overruns (exceeding the financial framework)

Preparation of budget

• Application for new accounts
• Preparation of budget (estimated budget)
• Preparation of global and detailed budgets

Budget execution including decentralised accounting tasks

•  Implementation of the budget execution as specified
• Monitoring of compliance with the defined framework conditions
• Registration of orders, receipts and also payment and settlement orders
• Compliance with fiscal law principles
• Formal receipt and document check
• Liquidity forecast
• Drawing up payment and settlement orders for the Accounting Department of the State of Styria
• Application for new accounts
• Management of the dunning process
• Regulation of financial ramifications resulting from the performance of the department's tasks, e.g., risk structure compensation RSA, draft laws, Art. 15a agreements, reallocations, requests for reserves
• Decentralised reporting 

Asset accounting

• Maintaining and updating fixed asset accounting

Statements of account

• Measures related to closing the accounts (reserves, accruals, deferrals, receivables valuation and write-offs, balance reconciliation)

Budgetary control including reporting

•  Performance of budgetary control tasks as specified
• Preparation of the results as specified by the head of the department

Cost and activity accounting

•  Contributing to the cost centre set-up
• Contributing to the design of the cost unit accounting structure
• Shared responsibility for the content of data relevant to the cost and activity accounting of the body
• Contributing to the execution of cost and activity accounting as specified
• Cost allocations and transfers
• Executing the standard evaluations for the department
• Preparation of the results as specified by the head of the department
• Integration of specialised information systems (FIS) into cost and activity accounting (in coordination with the IT department)

Impact orientation

•  Impact orientation of the department
• Preparation of the annual impact report

Tax matters of the department

•  Compliance with/implementation of the decrees of the Finance Department
• Internal training courses and information sharing
• Obtaining approval from the Finance Department for purchases of services in connection with tax law issues
• Providing information promptly before the realisation of major projects with fiscal consequences
• Execution of control evaluations under tax law
• General matters associated with budgetary settlements
• Participation in qualification measures
• Participation in the network of the Finance Department and the bodies that are responsible for the budget
• Participation in information exchange

Controlling

•  Strategic controlling
• Operational controlling
• Internal control system
• Reporting

Internal Services

•  Secretarial work
• Archive
• Information technology
• Vehicle fleet of the department
• Space management