Finance, Administration and Information Technology Division focused on the following strategic objectives during the 2010/2011 financial year:
- Improve the control environment and comply with all relevant legislation
- Achieve financial management excellence through efficient and effective controls and processes;
- Liaise with, and correct all, control environment deficiencies identified by the auditors;
- Effective management and the safeguarding of assets;
- Review and update policies on an annual basis and
- Improve business efficiencies.
- Ensure that AISA’s budget is utilised effectively in pursuance of its mandate
- Discuss budgeting inputs to the strategic and annual performance plans to encourage transparent alignment of budgetary and planning processes and divisional ownership of budgets;
- Allocate proportional costs to all divisions to ensure that they remain cognisant of all operational expenditures;
- Honour lease agreements, infrastructure expenses and basic utility services;
- Maintain the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure;
- Revise budget and submit the revised budget; and
- Monitor income and expenditure against the budget.
- Manage the Institute’s cash flow to facilitate operations
- Manage cash movement to provide greater accuracy in cash flow projections to maximise revenue.
- Increase revenue to AISA to augment the grant received by government
- Increase revenue by effectively managing cash flow and asset disposal; and
- Manage the grant allocation from the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- Risk management
- Assess and mitigate the impact of the top risks across AISA; and
- Ensure that AISA’s insurance policy is adequate and covers all assets and possible liabilities.