Dept 54 - Economic Information Department

Department Director: František Antropius

The department is responsible for performing of all of the tasks related to the financial accounting of the accounting entity of the Ministry of Finance. It makes accounting entries in the ministry’s books based on accounting documents created both by it and by the ministry’s other departments, if such documents pertain to the accounting of the MF accounting entity. It compiles annual, extraordinary, and interim financial statements on behalf of the MF accounting entity. It maintains the full scope of special records on privatized assets according to privatisation project. It creates accounting records and accounts for all items in the accounting for the purposes of managing the property designated for privatisation and for the purposes of administrating receivables and asset participations, trademarks, and passive lawsuits that have been or will be transferred to the ministry. It works with the National Fund Department to set the method to be used to account for items arising in the course of managing EU funds within the National Fund. It also assists the National Fund Department in the discharge of financial reporting in respect of EU and national authorities. It is in charge of proposing system measures and the concept and methodology behind financial audits at the ministry. It is responsible for executing supervisory controls at the ministry. In cooperation with the other departments of the ministry and on behalf of the ministry as a tax entity, it files all pertinent tax returns with the exception of personal income tax returns. It determines for the ministry, the Financial Directorate, and the General Customs Directorate the methods to be used for key economic processes. Within its area of responsibility, it is in charge of creating binding methodologies in the following areas: accounting; stocktaking of assets, liabilities, and items accounted for off the balance sheet; and the state property register. It monitors valid legal regulations on accounting, the stocktaking of assets, liabilities and items accounted for off the balance sheet, and the state property register. It is also responsible for incorporating any changes in such legal regulations into the ministry’s internal regulations and work procedures. It drafts the ministry’s internal regulations and work procedures pertaining to accounting, the stocktaking of assets, liabilities, and items accounted for off the balance sheet, and the state property register. It is responsible for handling queries from certain accounting entities within the MF regarding accounting, the state property register, and the stocktaking of assets, liabilities, and items accounted for off the balance sheet. It helps prepare the closing account. It is involved in drafting the state’s concepts for and the state’s financial policy on the management of state property. It makes proposals and helps prepare conceptual analyses for new legal regulations, or their amendments, on accounting, stocktaking of assets, liabilities, and items accounted for off the balance sheet, and the state property register. It acts as the administrator of the central register of the ministry’s bank accounts. It serves as the guarantor of items accounted for in the books for the statistical reporting of the Czech Statistical Office.

Units

• Central Accounting Unit » 541
• Selected Economic Process Methodology Unit » 542
• Reporting and Analysis Performance Unit » 543
• State Financial Reporting Unit » 544