THE
STATE BANK OF VIETNAM
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SOCIALIST
REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM
Independence Freedom Happiness
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No.
1789/2005/QD-NHNN
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Hanoi,
December 12, 2005
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DECISION
ON THE ISSUANCE OF THE REGIME ON BANKING ACCOUNTING VOUCHERS
THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE BANK
- Pursuant to the Law on the
State Bank of Vietnam No. 01/1997/QH10 dated 12/12/1997 and the Law on the
amendment, supplement of several articles of the Law on the State Bank of
Vietnam No. 10/2003/QH11 dated 17/6/2003;
- Pursuant to the Law on Credit Institutions No. 02/1997/QH10 dated 12/12/1997
and the Law on the amendment, supplement of several articles of the Law on
Credit Institutions No. 20/2004/QH11 dated 15/6/2004;
- Pursuant to the Law on Accounting No. 03/2003/QH11 dated 17/6/2003;
- Pursuant to the Law on Decree No. 52/2003/ND-CP dated 19/5/2003 of the
Government providing for the function, assignment, authority and organizational
structure of the State Bank of Vietnam;
- Pursuant to the Decree No. 128/2004/ND-CP dated 31/5/2004 of the Government
providing for in details and guiding the implementation of several articles of
the Law on Accounting applicable in the state accounting area;
- Pursuant to the Decree No. 129/2004/ND-CP dated 31/5/2004 of the Government
providing for in details and guiding the implementation of several articles of
the Law on Accounting applicable in the business activities;
After obtaining the approval
from the Ministry of Finance by the Official Dispatch No. 14015/BTC-CDKT dated
14/12/2005 of the Ministry of Finance;
Upon the proposal of the
Director of the Finance Accounting Department,
DECIDES:
Article 1.
To issue in conjunction with this Decision the Regime on
accounting vouchers applicable to banks
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Article 3.
The Director of Administrative Department, Director of
the Finance Accounting Department, Heads of units of the State Bank, General
Managers of the State Bank braches in provinces, cities under the central
Governments management, Chairperson of the Board of Directors and General
Directors (Directors) of credit institutions, other non-credit institution
organizations engaging in banking activities shall be responsible for the
implementation of this Decision.
FOR
THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE BANK
DEPUTY GOVERNOR
Vu Thi Lien
REGIME
ON BANKING ACCOUNTING VOUCHERS
(Issued in conjunction with the Decision No. 1789/2005/QD-NHNN dated
12/12/2005 of the Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam)
I. GENERAL
PROVISION
Article 1.
Governing scope
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The banking accounting vouchers
are the papers, information carriers which reflect the arising and finished
economic, financial operations as a basis for making entry to the banks
accounting book
Article 2.
Subjects of application
1. The State Bank, credit
institutions, non-credit institution organizations engaging in banking activity
(hereinafter referred to as banks)
2. Organizations and individuals
(hereinafter referred to as customers) using banking accounting voucher in the
transaction relations with banks.
Article 3.
Form and specimen of the banking accounting vouchers
1. The banking accounting
voucher shall be shown in paper form or in form of an electronic voucher.
2. Form of the banking
accounting voucher includes:
a. Form of accounting vouchers
which are provided for by the Ministry of Finance and collectively applied to
accounting units, specifically as follows:
- Units of the State Bank shall
implement in accordance with the form of accounting voucher applicable to
administrative and non-productive units.
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b. Forms of accounting voucher
with specific characteristics of banking area (vouchers relating to payment,
credit and operation of financial receipt, payment of banking activity) shall
be provided for by the State Bank. List, forms of accounting vouchers with
specific characteristics of banking area shall be provided for in other
documents.
Article 4.
Legal, valid vouchers
Legal, valid banking accounting
voucher shall be a voucher which is drawn in accordance with provisions of
applicable law on accounting and provisions in Article 4, Article 6 and Article
7 of this Regime. Information, data in the legal, valid accounting voucher
shall be the basis for making entry to the banks accounting book.
II. SPECIFIC
PROVISIONS
Article 5.
Contents of a bank accounting voucher
1. A banking accounting voucher
must contain the following main contents:
a. Name and number sign of the
voucher;
b. Date, month, year of drawal
of the voucher;
c. Name, address, number of
Identity Card/Passport, account number of the payer (or transferor) and name,
address of the payers (or transferors) bank;
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dd. Content of the arising
financial, economic operation;
e. Quantity, price unit and
amount of the financial, economic operation stated in number, the total amount
of the accounting voucher used for the money collection, payment must be stated
in number and word;
g. Signature, full name of the
drawer, approver and people relating to the accounting voucher. Vouchers which
are related to the encashment from the vault, making cash entry to the vault,
transfer payment among banks must be supported by the signature of the
controller (Chief Accountant, person is in charge of accounting) and the
approver (Head of unit) or the authorized person.
2. Besides main contents of the
accounting voucher provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article, banks may,
depending on each type of voucher, supplement with other elements. In case
where a bank performs retail banking services, one door transaction...with cash
receipt, payment vouchers within the limit a transactor is authorized to
control, at the end of a working day, the transactor shall draw up a List of
arising transactions of that day which states clearly the information of the
volume of the arisen transactions, the number of the vouchers, amount of money
in each voucher and the total amount which has been actually received, spent.
The controller (Chief of Accounting Division or authorized person) must verify,
reconcile the correctness between the List of daily arising transactions and
the arising vouchers and the actually received, spent amount. The List of the
daily arising transactions, which is drawn up in accordance with the sequences,
procedures and are fully supported by the signature in accordance with
applicable provisions shall be considered as legal, valid voucher and used as a
basis for making accounting entries.
3. The writing and number stated
in the banking accounting voucher shall be performed in accordance with
applicable provisions of the Law on Accounting and this Regime:
a. The writing stated in the banking
accounting voucher shall be in Vietnamese, Vietnamese characters on electronic
vouchers must comply with the standard of the Vietnamese character code
provided for by the State. In case where it is required to use foreign language
in accounting voucher, Vietnamese language and foreign language shall be used
simultaneously.
Accounting vouchers stated in
foreign language and arising outside the Vietnamese territory shall be
translated into Vietnamese when being used for book entry in Vietnam. The vouchers,
which rarely arise, shall be translated wholly. The vouchers arising
frequently, main contents of which shall be translated in accordance with
provisions of the Ministry of Finance. The Vietnamese translation of the
voucher must be attached to the original voucher in foreign language.
b. Number used in the banking
accounting voucher shall be Arabic number: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; after
the number of thousands, millions, billions, thousand billions, trillions shall
be a full stop (.), a comma (,) must be put after the unit number in case where
it is required to state number after the unit number.
Article 6.
Electronic voucher, conditions for using electronic voucher and value of the
electronic voucher
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2. Conditions for using
electronic voucher
a. Banks wishing to use
electronic voucher must satisfy following conditions:
- Having location, information
transmission lines, information network, information transmission instrument
and other appropriate instruments which satisfy the requirement of
exploitation, control, processing, use, preservation and record of the electronic
vouchers.
- Having a group of staff with
professional skills, capability corresponding to the technical requirements to
carry out the procedure of drawing, processing, use, preservation and record of
electronic vouchers in accordance with the accounting and payment procedures;
- Satisfying conditions provided
for in point b and point c, paragraph 2 of this Article.
b. Organizations, individuals
using electronic voucher to perform transaction, make payment through a bank
must submit a written request to and have an agreement with the bank (where
their account is opened) on the following conditions:
- Electronic signature of the
legal representative, the person who is authorized by the legal representative
of the organization or individual which uses electronic voucher and performs
electronic payment transactions;
- Mode of receiving and
delivering electronic vouchers and technique of information carriers;
- To undertake that all
activities occurring from the electronic vouchers, which are drawn by them, shall
be correct and in accordance with applicable provisions and to take
responsibility for the damages caused by the intentional or unintentional
disclosure of electronic signature which facilitates the evildoers to take
advantage.
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3. The transformation from the
electronic voucher to a paper based voucher (or vice versa) for the purpose of
transaction, payment shall be implemented in accordance with provisions on the
preparation, circulation, control, signature of the banking accounting voucher;
ensuring the correctness between the voucher used as a basis for the
transformation and the transformed voucher and ensuring the validity of the
voucher. The voucher which has been used as a basis for the transformation must
be noted with DCH (already transformed). After being used as a basis for the
transformation, the voucher shall only remain its record value for the purpose
of supervision, control and not be effective for the transaction, payment.
Article 7.
Drawing the banking accounting voucher
1. The accounting voucher shall
be drawn for any arising financial, economic operation which are related to the
currency trading activity and banking service, the receipt and use of funds
sources, expenses; receipts, expenses, setting up and use of funds by banks...
The banking accounting voucher shall be only drawn one time for each arising
economic, financial operation.
2. All banking accounting
vouchers (including those drawn by the bank and by the customer) must be drawn
clearly, sufficiently, timely and accurately in line with contents provided for
in the form.
3. With respect to cheques, it
is obliged for the customers to draw under the printed form they receive from
the bank where their deposit account is opened. For voucher of money transfer
to the State Treasury for tax, budget payment, it is required to fully state
the tax code, budget index of tax, budget payer. In respect of vouchers used
for the treatment of internal operations of a bank, the bank must use the form
of internal vouchers drawn by the bank, such as Transfer notes, Receipt notes,
payment note,... and shall not be permitted to use vouchers drawn by the
customer.
4. Paper based accounting
voucher must have the required number of sheets. In case of a financial, economic
operation where many sheets of accounting voucher need to be drawn, contents on
those sheets must be alike and drawn for only one time in line with the actual
time, place, content and the money amount of the arising economic operation. In
case where a printed voucher is defected, lacks sheet or incorrectly stated, it
shall be cancelled by crossing (X) or stating the word CANCELLED in all the
defected, incorrect sheets. The sheets of the vouchers with already printed
number (such as Cheque, Inter-bank Advice,...), which are incorrectly written,
must be sufficiently detained at the coupon or the voucher book before
proceeding the destruction. Upon the destruction of important vouchers, which
are wrongly written, it is required to draw up a minute of destruction and
carry out the destruction in accordance with the applicable provisions.
Paper based accounting vouchers
drawn by a bank or transformed from the electronic voucher to the paper based
one for the transaction, payment with organizations, individuals other than
banks, the sheet sent to the outside unit must be sealed by the bank (branch,
operation department...). The use of seal to affix on accounting, payment
vouchers within the bank shall be provided for by the General Manager (Manager)
of that bank, providing that the validity of the voucher must be ensured and in
line with provisions of the law on the management and use of seal.
5. Content of the financial,
economic operation in the banking accounting voucher must be written with full
sentence, clear meaning. For paper based voucher, it is required to use an ink
pen (in violet, green, black colour) to write, number and words must be written
consecutively without space, any blank must be crossed; it is not permitted to
abbreviate, to write letter without accent mark, write faintly or blurrily, to
erase, correct, write in red ink (except for the accounting note drawn up for
the correction of mistake). Vouchers which are erased, corrected shall be
valueless for payment and making entry in the banking accounting book;
6. Drawal date, month, year of a
bank accounting voucher shall be stated in number. Drawal date of the voucher
shall be the date when it is actually submitted to the bank (except for the
vouchers which are permitted to separate the drawal date and date of book-entry
as two different contents);
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7. It is required to state the amount
of money in the banking accounting voucher in both number and word. The amount
in word must be clear in meaning, the first character of the amount in word
must be capitalized and very close to the tab of the first line, skipping line,
space between words shall be prohibited, it is not permitted to insert any word
(on different line) into two consecutive words in the voucher.
8. The drawer, approver and
other persons who sign their names on the banking accounting voucher shall be
responsible for the content of the accounting voucher.
9. The banking accounting
voucher which is drawn in the form of an electronic voucher must comply with
provisions in Article 18, paragraph 1 and paragraph 2, Article 19 of the Law on
Accounting and provisions in this Regime:
- Electronic vouchers must be
drawn in accordance with the stipulated form, structure, format with full
contents and the validity of the accounting voucher must be ensured.
- Electronic vouchers stated in
the information carrier must have specific instructions in terms of time,
technical elements in order to ensure the use, inspection, control of the
electronic voucher as necessary.
- Data, information in the
voucher must be reflected clearly, truthfully, accurately and be encoded in
accordance with applicable provisions. The voucher must have full electronic
signatures of the concerned people who are responsible for the accuracy,
prudence of the data; the electronic signature in the voucher must match with
the electronic signature which is granted and managed by the bank where the
account is opened or by the Payment Center of the Bank.
- Date, month, year of drawal of
the electronic voucher must be stated in number and in the form of: DD/MM/YYYY (of
which, DD is the date; MM is the month; YYYY is the year).
- The cancellation, correction
of the electronic voucher which is wrongly drawn shall be implemented in
accordance with provisions of applicable laws and of the State Bank on the
treatment of errors in the electronic payment transaction.
Article 8.
The signature of the banking accounting voucher
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a. The banking accounting
voucher must be supported by sufficient signatures. The signature in the paper
based accounting voucher must be signed with ink pen. It is not permitted to
sign in red ink or affix a seal of ready engraved signature. Signature in
accounting voucher of a person must be identical.
b. The banking accounting
voucher must be signed by a competent person or an authorized person. It is
strictly prohibited to sign the accounting voucher when the content of the
voucher which is of the signers responsibility is not fully stated yet.
c. Payment accounting voucher
must be signed by a competent person for approval and the controller (the chief
accountant or an authorized person) before the performance. The signature in
the payment accounting voucher must be signed in each sheet. In case where the
bank performs the one door transaction with the voucher of cash payment which
has the value within the limit scope where transactor is authorized to control,
therein the transactor shall be entitled to sign the voucher and pay money to
the customer. The signature of the controller, approver shall be implemented
later at the end of the date in the List of arising transactions in the day,
providing that the strict control and the reconciliation between the List of
arising transactions in the day and the realized accounting vouchers must have
been implemented;
d. Electronic vouchers must bear
electronic signature in accordance with provisions of applicable laws.
Electronic signature in the electronic voucher shall have the same validity as
the hand signature in the paper based voucher;
2. Signature of the customer in
the transaction voucher with the bank:
a. For transaction voucher drawn
by the customer who is an individual, or an organization that is not required
to arrange a chief accountant in accordance with provisions of applicable laws,
the signature of account holder or of the person who is authorized by the
account holder must be signed on the voucher.
b. For the voucher, which is
drawn for the deduction of money from the joint holder account, signatures of
all the people who are the joint holders of the account or the person who is
authorized to sign by the joint holders of the account must be signed on the
voucher. In the event where the joint holders of the account have agreed with
the bank on the use of only one of the signatures of the account joint holders
in the transaction with the bank, that agreement must be expressed in written
document and fully supported by the signatures of the joint holders of the
account and those joint holders must commit to take full responsibility for the
risks, losses resulted from the fact that they don't sign their names on the
vouchers in transactions with the bank.
c. For vouchers in transaction
with the bank drawn by the customers who are units, organizations that are
required to have a chief accountant in accordance with provisions of applicable
laws, the voucher must bear full signatures of account holder, chief accountant
or the person who is authorized to sign and the seal of the unit (in case of a
paper voucher).
d. Signature and seal (if any)
of the customer in the paper based voucher used for transaction with the bank
must be identical to the sample signature that has been registered with the
bank (where the account is opened). The electronic signature in the electronic
voucher must match with the signature granted by the bank where the account is
opened (or by competent agency).
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3. The signature of voucher
related banks:
a. General Managers (Managers)
of the banks shall provide for the decentralization of the transaction limit,
scope of authorization and the authority, responsibility of the person who is authorized
to sign the accounting voucher for each type of operation in line with
provisions of applicable laws and take responsibility for the authorization to
sign the accounting voucher within their banks.
b. Upon signing the accounting
voucher, officers, staff of a bank shall only be entitled to sign within the
scope of their stipulated competence and in accordance with the registered
sample (or granted sample in case of an electronic signature). The officers,
staff of the bank who sign their names on the voucher not in accordance with
the competence, not in line with the registered sample or in line with the
registered sample but lack responsibility for the control before their signing,
depending on the seriousness of the violation, shall be treated in accordance
with provisions of applicable laws.
c. Officers, staffs of the bank,
who perform the business relating to their responsibility for signing the
accounting voucher (such as accounting, informatics, cashier, credit), must
draw up a list of sample signatures to register with the chief accountant and
that sample signature list shall be confirmed by the banks executives before
the implementation. Where there is a change in personnel, the new officers,
staffs must draw their sample signature list for the replacement of the sample
signature of the persons who have stopped working in the business relating to
the responsibility for signing the voucher. The sample signature list which
expires the validity at divisions shall be crossed for cancellation, stated
with the date of cancel and recorded in a separate file and kept in archives
for the stipulated time. The General Managers (Managers) of the banks shall be
responsible for the management, supervision over the registration, use and
cancellation of the signature sample in their banks in compliance with
provisions of applicable laws.
d. The grant, management, use,
cancellation of the electronic signature at banks shall be implemented in
accordance the current laws and provisions of the State Bank.
Article 9.
Control over the banking accounting vouchers
1. All the banking accounting
vouchers must be closely controlled before the performance of operations
(accounting, payment, receipt, payment...), content of the banking accounting
voucher control shall include:
a. In respect of paper based
voucher:
- Controlling the clearness,
sufficiency, truthfulness of the contents stated in the voucher; controlling
the legality, validity of the arising financial, economic operations;
controlling the accuracy of the data, information in the voucher.
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- Controlling the confidential
code (KHM) in respect of the vouchers which are provided with KHM;
b. In respect of electronic
voucher: The control over the electronic vouchers shall be divided into two
parts, the part of information technique must be controlled first, and the part
of operation content shall be controlled later:
- Control over the information
technique includes:
+ Recognition code in the
voucher must correspond to the stipulated code; secret codes in the voucher
must be in accordance with the stipulated ones.
+ Name of the file must be drawn
in accordance with the provided name and the information form; controlling to
ensure that there shall not be any coincidence in the content of the
information in the voucher.
+ Content of the voucher must be
valid
- Control over the operational
contents:
+ Applying measures of visual
inspection or combining visual inspection with specialized equipments to verify
the correctness of the data.
+ Checking the electronic
signature, confidential code and security codes in the voucher
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+ Checking the existence and
some of obligatory parts of the voucher.
2. During the control of
accounting vouchers, if any violation to the laws, mechanism of the state and
banking sector is detected, the performance (of the payment, encashment form
the vault,) should be refused and report should be made to the relevant
excecutives for taking timely appropriate measures in accordance with the
current laws.
The bank shall be entitled to
return the accounting vouchers, which are drawn not in accordance with the
procedures, whose content and data are unclear and inaccurate, to the customer
or inform the drawer of the voucher to re-draw or readjust, before using them
as a basis for book-entry.
In case where the electronic
vouchers sent by customers have any error or are invalid, the bank shall not
process them and return them to the senders for re-drawing and open a book for
following up these vouchers. Customers who send electronic vouchers shall be
responsible for taking back their vouchers and keep in archives for at least 10
days since the date of receipt to serve the purpose of the bank's
reconciliation, verification when necessary.
3. The control, treatment of the
vouchers which are used for the accounting, payment within the bank shall be
provided for by the General Manager (Manager).
Article 10.
The circulation of the voucher
1. Banks must stipulate and
inform their customers of their time of transaction with the customer, receipt
of vouchers in their working day. Banks shall process and complete accounting
for all vouchers received in the transaction time in a day (except for the case
of technical troubles or other objective reasons). In special case where the
vouchers are received after the transaction time, they shall be accounted in
the following working day.
2. The procedures on the
delivery and receipt, sequences and time of the circulation of the accounting
voucher at a bank shall be provided for by the General Manager (Manager) of the
bank, providing that such steps as: receiving vouchers from the customers or
drawing voucher (if it is an arising operation of the bank); controlling the
voucher; performing the collection, payment of cash, asset output, input,
accounting and payment in accordance with specific provisions applicable to
each operation; synthesizing vouchers which arise within a day; arranging,
packaging, preserving and keeping in archives.
3. Upon the circulation of the
voucher, following principles must be ensured:
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b. In respect of vouchers which
are used in non-cash payment (transfer), the bank only Credits to the account
of the beneficiary when the payers account has sufficient payment capacity
(unless otherwise provided for by applicable laws).
c. The circulation of vouchers
among divisions of a bank shall be organized by the bank, the circulation
through the customer shall not be permitted. Vouchers for payments to units
other than the bank, such as money transfer, clearing payment..., shall be
circulated through the internal network, inter-bank network, post office or
directly delivered to and received from related banks.
Article 11.
Management of the printing and issuance of banking accounting voucher forms.
1. The Director of the Finance
Accounting Department shall be responsible for guiding the printing and
issuance of the banking accounting voucher, which are used at units of the
State Bank.
2. General Managers (Managers)
of the banks shall organize the printing and issuance of the banking accounting
voucher forms, which are used in their banks, provided that provisions of
applicable laws and provisions of the State Bank shall be complied with:
- For accounting vouchers
provided for by the Ministry of Finance, the printing and issuance of the forms
shall be implemented in accordance with provisions of the Ministry of Finance.
- For accounting vouchers which
carry particular characteristics of banking operations and are in the list of
required vouchers, Banks shall, based on the standard, specification of the
forms, and contents to be reflected which have been provided for by the State
Bank, organize the printing and registration of the form with the State Banks
Head Office (Finance Accounting Department) prior to the issuance. Operation
Departments, branches of credit institutions shall be responsible for
submission of their payment voucher forms to the State Bank (Banking Operation
Department or State Banks branches in provinces, cities) in the same local for
notification prior to their use. Payment vouchers, forms of which have not yet
been registered with the State Bank shall be considered as invalid vouchers and
not acceptable in the payment through the State Bank.
- For accounting vouchers which
carry particular characteristics of banking operations and are in the list of
guided vouchers, such as the transaction voucher between a customer and a bank,
vouchers used for the accounting, payment within a bank..., the banks shall
take the initiative in designing accounting voucher form in line with the
provisions of applicable laws to organize the printing and issuance.
Article 12.
Duplicated accounting voucher
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2. Duplicated accounting
vouchers shall only be used in following cases:
a. A bank which has an project
in relation to the foreign borrowing, foreign aid and is required to submit the
original voucher to the foreign donor in accordance with the commitment. In
this case, the duplicated voucher must be supported by a confirmation signature
and seal of the legal representative of the donor or of the bank.
b. The bank, the original
accounting voucher of which is temporarily seized or confiscated by a state
competent agency. In this case, the duplicated voucher must be supported by a
confirmation signature and seal of the representative of a state agency which
has competence to decide on temporary seizure, confiscation of the accounting
documents.
c. Accounting vouchers which are
lost or destroyed due to such objective reasons as natural calamity, fire. In
this case, the bank must go to the unit which purchases, or sells goods,
services and other concerned units to ask for the duplication of the lost
accounting vouchers. The duplicated voucher must be supported by a confirmation
signature and seal of the legal representative of the purchasing, selling unit
or other related independent accounting unit.
d. Other cases shall be implemented
in accordance with provisions of applicable laws.
Article 13.
Preservation, keeping of the banking accounting vouchers
1. Preservation of the banking
accounting vouchers
a. Accounting voucher must be
managed, preserved sufficiently, safely by the banks during the process of use
and record. The person who is in charge of accounting shall be responsible for
the management, preservation of his (or her) accounting vouchers during the
process of his (her) use.
b. The classification,
arrangement, package, preservation of the accounting vouchers in the bank shall
be provided for by the General Manager (Manager), ensuring close management and
convenience for looking up and record:
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- Electronic vouchers must be
preserved in accordance with provisions of the Law.
c. Accounting vouchers, after
being used for making entries to the accounting book, shall be kept in the
accounting division within the period of 12 months at the maximum from the end
of the annual accounting period, shall be sent to the storehouse for keeping,
preservation in accordance with applicable provisions thereafter.
d. Accounting voucher forms
which are not yet used must be preserved carefully to avoid being damaged,
lost. Important printed documents which have the same value as money must be
managed like money.
2. Preservation of the banking
accounting vouchers
a. General Manager (Manager) of
the bank shall guide the organization of the preservation, keeping of
accounting vouchers in his unit in line with provisions of applicable laws and
be responsible for the security, sufficiency and legality of the accounting
vouchers to be kept.
b. The kept accounting vouchers
must be the original. In case where the accounting vouchers are temporarily
seized, confiscated, lost or destroyed, the bank must have a minute attached to
the duplicate of the documents which are temporarily seized, confiscated, lost
or destroyed. For accounting voucher which only has one original but is
required to be kept in two different places, one of the two places shall be
entitled to keep the duplicated voucher.
c. Other contents about keeping
of accounting vouchers such as place of keeping, point of time and period of
keeping, destroying the accounting vouchers which expires the keeping period...
shall be implemented in accordance with provisions of the Law on Accounting,
the Decree guiding the implementation of the Law on Accounting and provisions
of the State Bank on keeping, preservation of the accounting documents.
Article 14.
Supply of the banking accounting vouchers
1. The supply of accounting
vouchers to the competent agencies for the investigation, reconciliation,
verification, looking up and appraisal at banks shall be implemented in
accordance with provisions of applicable laws and of the State Bank. The
process of investigation, reconciliation, verification, looking up and
appraisal of the accounting vouchers must be witnessed by the archivist (if the
vouchers are preserved in the archives), by the chief accountant of the bank or
the authorized person. The reconciliation, verification, looking up and
appraisal of the accounting vouchers shall only be performed at a stipulated
place in the place of business of the bank with concerned voucher. During the
process of investigation, reconciliation, verification, looking up and
appraisal of the accounting vouchers, if any one makes the original voucher
spoiled, lost or erased, corrected, a minute should be drawn to make clear the
responsibility and treat in accordance with applicable laws.
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Article 15.
Lost or destroyed accounting vouchers
When accounting vouchers are
detected lost or destroyed, the person who is in charge of accounting shall
carry out following tasks:
1. Inspecting, determining and
drawing up a minute of the number, actual situation, reason of the loss,
destroy and giving a notice to related organizations, individuals and the state
competent agency; In case where a blank cheque is lost, it is required to give
a written notification to the local police agency of the serial number, the
number of the cheques which are lost, the circumstances leading to the loss for
verification, treatment in accordance with applicable laws, at the same time to
announce in the mass media and other banks to invalidate the lost cheques.
2. Carrying out the restoration
of the accounting vouchers which are lost or destroyed;
3. Contacting organizations,
individuals which purchase or sell goods, services or other related units to
copy or reconfirm the lost, destroyed accounting documents in accordance with
provisions of applicable laws.
4. With respect to the
accounting voucher relating to the assets which are lost or destroyed but not
able to restore by measures provided for in paragraph 1, 2, 3 in this Article,
it shall be required to take stock of the assets to re-draw the accounting
vouchers which are lost or destroyed.
III.
IMPLEMENTING PROVISIONS
Article 16.
The Director of the Finance Accounting Department shall
be responsible for the deployment of and control over the implementation of
this regime with respect to the State Bank system.
The Chairperson of the Board of
Directors, General Managers (Managers) of the banks shall be responsible for
organizing the implementation of this regime in their unit.
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