Lieutenant Colonel Le Xuan Kien, Head of the Finance Department of Naval Region 4, said: The unit is stationed in a large area, scattered on many remote islands, complex areas, large numbers of troops, many subjects coming to coordinate work, enjoying different regimes and standards; many unexpected tasks. To ensure good financial work, financial agencies, officers and employees at all levels must closely follow the tasks; grasp the directions, goals, guiding viewpoints, tasks, solutions, principles and regimes of financial work, proactively advise the Party Committee, commanders, leaders, and closely implement them.

At the same time, guide agencies and units to base on the current status of facilities, weapons and equipment, forecast unexpected tasks to prepare budget estimates, ensure closeness and compliance with task requirements, avoid spreading or omitting content; especially ensuring salary and allowance regimes for officers and soldiers; maintenance of technical equipment... The Regional Finance Agency also focuses on measures to ensure, manage and use the budget in a flexible manner, creating conditions for sectors and units to be proactive and enhance responsibility in preparing, allocating estimates, managing and using the budget and other funding sources according to regulations of the State, the Ministry of National Defense and the Military Service.

Officers of the Finance Department of Naval Region 4 guide and inspect the implementation of accounting work on the accounting software of the Ministry of National Defense at Brigade 162, Naval Region 4.

Based on the assigned annual budget targets, the Finance Department of Naval Region 4 guides the branches and units to make spending plans according to tasks and synthesize them as a basis for allocation, monitoring and supervision of spending. The spending estimate must clearly define the content, quantity, price, amount, correct norms, standards and implementation time. Especially the spending task ensures officers and soldiers on duty on islands, patrolling and combat readiness at sea.

Along with ensuring, managing and using the budget, the financial agency has advised the Party Committee and unit commanders to conduct research on action programs for saving and fighting waste; promoting the work of increasing production and processing food, improving the quality of ensuring the material and spiritual life of soldiers. Focusing on closely combining the professional inspection of the financial agency with the inspection and supervision of Party Committees and the supervision of the military collective, between regular and unscheduled inspections; implementing well the discipline and self-inspection regime. Therefore, every year, the unit does not have the phenomenon of spending on incorrect content, spending over the approved budget target, limiting spending at the end of the quarter and year.

Every year, thousands of officers and soldiers from units in the entire army come to coordinate work at the island points. To ensure good regimes and standards for officers and soldiers who rotate to perform tasks on the islands, before the troop replacements, the Finance Department consults with the Navy Region 4 Command to organize professional training for financial staff and kitchen managers at the islands. The training content focuses on methods of ensuring, calculating regimes, standards, and policies for beneficiaries and including financial work content in the training program for officers and soldiers before going on duty.

Lieutenant Colonel, Master Dau Thanh Hai, Head of Finance Department of Brigade 146, Naval Region 4, confided: Due to the characteristics of small, scattered units with difficult travel, to ensure and manage financial work well, the financial agency guides the sectors and units to make budget spending plans, determine each specific content, estimate costs, and divide by month and quarter.

The budget for purchasing food, ensuring the material and spiritual life of soldiers; replacing and repairing equipment and supplies for island locations must be consistent with the plan for ensuring logistics, ships on duty, and ships on duty. There must be a plan to calculate the budget for purchasing and exploiting fresh food directly from fishermen and Truong Sa Seafood Company to ensure the lives of soldiers. For regular expenses (salaries, allowances, subsidies, etc.), the financial agency must ensure that they are correct, sufficient, and timely distributed to officers and soldiers. Every month, the financial agency prepares the salary and allowance tables, coordinates with the military agency, and officers to conduct joint military audits, review incoming and outgoing military numbers to calculate correctly and sufficiently.

Colonel Mai Hong Than, Head of the Navy Finance Department, assessed: Despite being stationed in a dispersed area, with harsh weather and many unexpected tasks, with the spirit of solidarity, unity and overcoming all difficulties, officers and employees of the finance sector of Navy Region 4 proactively advised the Party Committee and commanded the management and operation of the budget estimates in a consistent, flexible, close and tight manner; mastered the principles, contents, tasks and leadership regime of financial work, enhanced the role and responsibility of the commander (account holder) in managing and using finance and assets. Timely ensured the regime and standards for the troops; maintained and strictly implemented the grassroots democracy regulations and financial transparency regulations according to regulations; contributed to improving the material and spiritual life of the troops.

Article and photos: TRINH VAN TU

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