Training on public asset inventory at the State Treasury

The conference was organized online, including a central bridge at the State Treasury and 07 bridge points at the State Treasuries of provinces and centrally run cities (Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi , Ca Mau, Son La, Ha Giang, Thua Thien Hue, Dong Thap).

Attending the conference were: Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh, Director of the Department of Public Asset Management ( Ministry of Finance ); Ms. Ta Thanh Tu, Deputy Director of the Department of Financial Planning, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Inventory Steering Committee of the Ministry of Finance; Mr. Nguyen Quang Vinh, Deputy General Director of the State Treasury, Member of the Inventory Steering Committee of the Ministry of Finance; representatives of the Departments under the Department of Public Asset Management, the Department of Financial Planning; Departments and Bureaus under the State Treasury, members of the Inventory Team of the units under the State Treasury; representatives of the leaders of the provincial State Treasury and members of the Inventory Team of 7 provincial State Treasuries.

The scale of public asset inventory is much larger than in 1998.

Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh, Director of the Department of Public Asset Management, spoke at the Conference (Photo: MP)

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh said that asset inventory is a regular, annual task of agencies and units. The most recent general inventory of public assets in our country was conducted in 1998, which has been 26 years to date, and at that time, only inspections were conducted on public assets at agencies, organizations, and units.

According to Decision 213/QD-TTg dated March 11, 2024 of the Prime Minister on approving the Project on general inventory of public assets at agencies, organizations, units and infrastructure assets invested and managed by the State, this time, a general review will be made of the general inventory of public assets of agencies, organizations and units similar to the scale implemented in 1998. In addition, the subject of the inventory will be expanded to include infrastructure assets invested and managed by the State.

The leader of the Department of Public Asset Management added that there are many infrastructure assets invested and managed by the State. After reviewing relevant legal documents, working with specialized management ministries as well as consulting with ministries, branches and localities, the Ministry of Finance proposed to select 18 types of infrastructure assets as inventory objects, reporting to the Government for approval of the Project (Decision 213/QD-TTg dated March 11, 2024).

“In terms of the scale of assets, the inventory this time is much larger than in 1998. The inventory is more difficult because public assets in administrative units have clear regulations on accounting, bookkeeping, depreciation, and asset depreciation, and there is a database system for these assets, including in ministries, branches, localities, or nationwide. As for infrastructure assets, there are even many types that have not yet had regulations on management, use, and accounting for these types of assets, so the work is extremely difficult,” said Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh.

With such a wide range of inventory subjects, to ensure the success of the upcoming official inventory, the Ministry of Finance is conducting a trial inventory in 2 ministries and 3 localities, and will soon conduct a trial inventory in 3 more localities.

Explaining the reason for choosing the State Treasury as one of the units to conduct the first trial inventory, the representative of the Department of Public Asset Management said that the State Treasury has experience in the process of building the State Financial Report, including the part related to public assets in general, assets in administrative units and infrastructure assets in particular. Along with that, the State Treasury system also needs to use the total inventory data of ministries and central branches to serve the construction of the State Financial Report in the coming time. On the other hand, the State Treasury has a vertical system from district level, provincial level to central level, from this inventory it will gain more experience in handling issues related to units with vertical systems nationwide. In this round of selecting a pilot inventory unit, the Ministry of Finance has selected a variety of agencies and units to gain the most comprehensive experience, thereby having a basis for implementation in the upcoming process" - Mr. Nguyen Tan Thinh said.

According to the Director of the Department of Public Asset Management, the pilot inventory focuses on the goal of "practicing" how to carry out the inventory work before deploying it on a large scale, contributing to perfecting the inventory forms and indicators. At the same time, it is recommended that the actual inventory officers at the grassroots units will give comments to the Ministry of Finance on the forms and inventories before officially issuing them for training nationwide. Through the pilot inventory, the good and bad aspects in the accounting and management of public assets will be discovered so that the Department has a basis to report to the Ministry of Finance and the Government to have documents to rectify and notify ministries, branches and localities before the actual inventory nationwide from January 1, 2025.

Determined to complete on schedule

Sharing at the Conference, Mr. Nguyen Quang Vinh, Deputy General Director of the State Treasury, said that, implementing Decision 213/QD-TTg dated March 11, 2024 of the Prime Minister, the State Treasury was selected as the unit to conduct a pilot inventory of public assets this time. To perform the task well, the State Treasury has coordinated with the Department of Public Asset Management and the Department of Financial Planning to organize training on pilot implementation in the State Treasury system. In addition to achieving the set goals, the State Treasury will promptly reflect difficulties and obstacles as well as recommendations to complete the inventory forms and indicators. This is also the basis for the State Treasury to complete the nationwide direction for a complete inventory by January 1, 2025, and this is also the basis for the Ministry of Finance to complete the instructions on inventory reporting forms according to the Prime Minister's regulations.

Scene of the training conference at the Hanoi bridge (Photo: MP)

At the conference, representatives of the State Treasury of the provinces also expressed their agreement with the plans for implementing the general inventory of public assets issued by the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance. At the same time, they said they would absorb the information at the training conference and seriously urge grassroots units to implement according to the set plan and time.

The conference also spent most of the time for representatives of the Department of Public Asset Management to disseminate some contents of the Decisions related to the Project and the Plan for implementing the Project of general inventory of public assets; Disseminate the plan for public asset inventory of the Ministry of Finance; Provide guidance on indicators, forms, and methods for synthesizing inventory results...

It is expected that on May 30, the Department of Public Asset Management will continue to coordinate with the People's Committee of Hai Phong City to organize training to deploy a pilot inventory of public assets.

Previously, on May 27, the Department of Public Asset Management coordinated with the Ministry of Transport and the Hanoi People's Committee to organize a training conference to deploy a pilot inventory of public assets for affiliated units at 2 units.

It is expected that in the coming time, the Minister of Finance will continue to issue a Decision on pilot inventory in 3 localities: Ho Chi Minh City, Quang Ninh and Bac Kan./.

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