On 1 July 2017, after approximately three years in development, all of South Africa’s 257 municipalities went live with a new standardised financial classification framework: the Municipal Standard Chart of Accounts (mSCOA). Sebata, a MICROmega Group company and the leading provider of integrated technology solutions and enterprise management solutions, developed the system capable of supporting it. Before mSCOA, a chart of accounts in most municipalities was limited to item revenue (how … [Read more...] about Forcing transparency and accountability in municipalities
