OCA CIRCULAR NO. 61-2017, March 17, 2017

OCA CIRCULAR NO. 61-2017, March 17, 2017

OCA Circulars March 17, 2017
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TO:

ALL JUDGES, CLERKS OF COURT AND OFFICERS-IN-CHARGE/ACTING CLERKS OF COURT OF THE LOWER COURTS

SUBJECT :

Mandatory Submission of Soft Copy of Financial Monthly and Quarterly Reports to the Fiscal Monitoring Division, Court Management Office, Office of the Court Administrator

For better monitoring of financial reports, all clerks of court and officers-in- charge/acting clerks of court shall submit via email to the Fiscal Monitoring Division (FMD), Court Management Office (CMO), OCA, (1) on or before the tenth (10 th) day of the following month, editable or electronic copies of the financial monthly reports for the Fiduciary Fund (FF), Sheriff’s Trust Fund (STF), Judiciary Development Fund (JDF), Special Allowance for the Judiciary Fund (SAJF) and Mediation Fund (MF), and (2) on or before the tenth (10 th) day of the month following the end of the .quarter, editable or electronic copies of the financial quarterly report for the General Fund (GF), to the following e-mail accounts corresponding to their judicial regions:

 

JUDICIAL REGION
EMAIL ADDRESS
NCR
ncr.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
I
r1.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
II
r2.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
III
r3.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
IV
r4.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
V
r5.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
VI
r6.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
VII
r7.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
VIII
r8.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
IX
r9.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
X
r10.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
XI
r11 .fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com
XII
r12.fmd.cmo.oca@gmail.com

Related costs/expenses for the submission of the editable or electronic copies of the financial reports shall be charged to the representation allowance of the clerks of court and/or the Extraordinary Miscellaneous Expense (EME) allowance of the Presiding Judges/Executive Judges. The clerks of court and officers-in-charge/acting clerks of court who are not receiving representation allowance, shall be entitled to reimbursement from the Financial Management Office, OCA, subject to documentary requirements.

A uniform format of file name (i.e., “Court type, Court Station, Province – Fund Abbreviation, Month Year”) shall be used in the submission of editable copies to the FMD as follows:

 

COURT STATION
SAMPLE FORMAT
For Single Sala Court
MCTC, Lemery-Agoncillo, Batangas – FF, April 2017
RTC, Lemery, Batangas – STF, April 2017
For Multiple Sala Court
MTCC, OCC, Batangas City, Batangas – JDF, April 2017
RTC, OCC, Batangas City, Batangas – SAJF, April 2017

The editable or electronic copies of the financial monthly and quarterly report of the funds enumerated above must be in excel format (if MS Office is used) or in calc format (if Open Office is used). No such requirement of conversion to excel or calc format, as the case may be, shall be imposed upon courts using e-court or e-payment/cashiering system.

Printed copies of financial monthly/quarterly reports of the said funds shall not be accepted by the FMD, CMO, OCA.

The printed copies of financial monthly and quarterly reports of the FF, STF, JDF, SAJF and GF shall be submitted to the Accounting Division of the Financial Management Office, OCA (pursuant to OCA Circular No. 113-2004 dated 16 September 2004). On the other hand, printed copies of financial monthly reports of the MF shall be submitted to the Finance Division, Philippine Judicial Academy (pursuant to OCA Circular No. 58-2007 dated 24 May 2007).

Strict compliance is enjoined.

17 March 2017

(SGD.) JOSE MIDAS P. MARQUEZ
      Court Administrator