Day of financial economic service sun postcard. Money is the nerve of war
Decree of the President Russian Federation dated August 24, 2015, a professional holiday of financial and economic service which is celebrated annually on October 22. The new memorable date was introduced not only as a tribute to the merits of military financiers, but also as evidence of the increased role of the financial and economic service of the Russian army.
Due to their specific nature, military financiers have never been in the public eye. The prototype of the army financial service was created under Peter I, who established the position of commissar general and centralized financial support Russian army. Under him, the first salary salaries for regular army servicemen were introduced, depending on the official position, rank and even type of troops.
On October 22, 1918, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, for the first time in the history of the army and navy, a regulation on the financial department was adopted and put into effect legal document about an independent financial body.
During the Great Patriotic War, military financiers quickly organized cash and settlement service in the army, they formed field institutions of the State Bank: on the fronts - offices, in the armies - branches, in formations - cash desks. Already in 1943, the share of non-cash payments amounted to 75% of the total volume Money paid at the front. In total, during the years of the war through financial system more than a trillion rubles (50.8% of budget expenditures) passed to the army and navy.
Today, an effective three-tier system has been created to finance the troops. The first level is the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, which is the main manager of funds federal budget. The second level is the managers of the federal budget, for example, large military hospitals, head centers of military education. The third level - direct recipients budget funds.
Troops are financed on a territorial and sectoral basis. In the first case, financial support is provided through territorial financial authorities. Large military educational institutions and leading military medical institutions, which have their own financial bodies, are financed on a sectoral basis.
In conditions when significant funds are being allocated to strengthen the country's defense capability, the efficiency of spending this money directly depends on military financiers. And how effectively each military ruble will be spent depends National security.
As a result of a large and complex work to determine the minimum required level of financing of military spending, we managed to defend some of the positions, the reduction of which is the most sensitive for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense is constantly monitoring the effectiveness of budget spending and quality of management of federal budget funds. By order of the President of the Russian Federation, an interdepartmental system of control over the spending of state defense order funds has been created and is effectively operating.
Financial planning, budget execution in terms of expenditures, public procurement management, management accounting, control and audit, asset management and other parameters are analyzed. This work is being done to improve the quality management decisions and improve cost efficiency.
An example of such a solution is a new approach to reducing accounts receivable on federal budget expenditures, in which the advance payment of state contracts within the framework of the state defense order is carried out quarterly, based on a real assessment of the production capabilities of enterprises in the military-industrial complex (DIC).
Do not forget that defense spending is a guarantee of the development of the national industry, and its most high-tech part. The lion's share of the military budget is directed to finance defense industry enterprises, which are the locomotive Russian economy. These costs have a multiplier effect, since the increase in production by defense industry enterprises accelerates the demand for metals, electricity, transport services, etc., which in turn leads to an increase in production volumes in these sectors.
In 2016, for the first time in the history of the Russian army, the readiness of the financial and economic service for operations in wartime conditions was tested. To work out questions financial support troops in the framework of the strategic command and staff exercise (SKSHU) "Kavkaz-2016" involved not only the financial support of the Ministry of Defense, but also the Ministry of Finance of Russia and the Bank of Russia.
Tatyana Shevtsova, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.By decree of the President of Russia, the Day of the Financial and Economic Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation was included in the list of professional holidays and memorable days. According to the decree, military financiers will celebrate this holiday annually on October 22.
The appearance of the Decree was preceded by painstaking work with archival documents, thanks to which it was possible to supplement the history of the emergence and formation of army financial bodies, as well as to re-evaluate the contribution of military financiers to improving the country's defense capability.
It was on October 22, in 1918, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic (RVSR), for the first time in the history of the army and navy, the regulation on the financial department was adopted and a legal document on an independent financial body was put into effect.
The issue of this order was due to the fact that in connection with the rejection of the volunteer principle of manning the Red Army and the transition to the construction of a regular army, it was necessary to abandon various extra-budgetary sources of financial support for volunteer detachments and organize the financial support of regular units and formations completely at the expense of state budget.
The Finance Department under the RVSR was entrusted with providing necessary loans fronts and individual armies and treasury services for the army.
The financial department had to perform its functions in conditions of economic ruin and the depreciation of money.
During the Civil War, the functions of the Finance Department expanded in accordance with the situation. Thus, the department was entrusted with the management and management of all field treasuries, financial control and other functions.
When forming the Financial Department under the RVSR and the Regulations on it, two fundamentally new circumstances were identified.
First: it was established that the positions of financial workers are completed by persons of command and command staff. Prior to this period, in the tsarist army, financial bodies were staffed by military officials. In the post-revolutionary years, this was due to the need to subordinate the financing system to people who took the oath of allegiance to the new government on an equal basis with other representatives of the commanding staff.
Secondly, the “embeddedness” of the financial support system (as well as other support systems) was determined in the regular organization of troops and command and control units and in their daily activities. This was due to the special conditions of combat activity, the need to carry out tasks by the troops in any situation and ensure their independence.
The financial service of the Red Army, under the leadership of the Financial Department under the RVSR in 1918-1920, fulfilled its duties, accumulating the richest experience of mobile response to rapidly changing economic and military circumstances, and laid certain foundations for organizing financial support for the further improvement of the country's Armed Forces.
During the period of building the Red Army from 1921 to 1941, the position of the financial service was strengthened.
1921-1936 is a period of practice of self-service troops, in which internal sources of funding were of great importance. And in the prewar years, the troops switched to strict budget financing. In the 30s, with the increasing role of the financial service, all management systems were improved, Regulations on the financial economy were issued (1936, 1938, 1940), Regulations on financial control(1936 and April 4, 1941), Regulations on monetary allowance military personnel and pensions, a special order on measures to transfer the financial service to the provision of troops in war conditions.
When you read these documents, you understand that the basic approaches to organizing the financial support of the troops, laid down in them, are still relevant today.
During the Great Patriotic War, along with the main task of ensuring the uninterrupted combat activities of the troops, a very important task arose - to achieve, through the introduction of a strict economy, high efficiency in the use of military appropriations.
The establishment of the Day of Financial and Economic Service can be considered state recognition of the contribution of military financiers and veterans of the Great Patriotic War to strengthening the country's defense capability, as well as a tribute to our veterans who managed to build an effective system for financing the army and navy, - emphasized Tatyana Shevtsova, Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia. – On October 22, we will have another reason to meet with our honored specialists, congratulate them, remember those who are no longer with us. The current generation of military financiers is determined to preserve and increase the traditions of service accumulated over decades of worthy work in the interests of the state.
Military spending then accounted for 51 percent of the state budget, and the task was set: to save on everything.
During the Great Patriotic War, military financiers managed to create a mechanism that ensured the mobilization economic resources state and the restructuring of its economy on a war footing, to organize competent planning of budget expenditures. The key issue was to ensure uninterrupted financing of the needs of the front. Suffice it to say that more than half of all the country's budget expenditures passed through the financial system of the army and navy at that time!
From the first days of the war, the order of financial planning and financing for wartime was put into effect. Quarterly planning of cash needs has given way to monthly planning. In accordance with the requirements of wartime, the structure of the financial bodies of the military level was adjusted, in particular, financial departments were created as part of the fronts and armies.
The “economy” of the chief of the regiment was extremely ascetic: a small metal box for storing money, a wooden box for financial documents, as well as a field bag with a money book and a control book.
The organization of the financing of the active army was carried out simultaneously with the establishment of their cash and settlement services. Field institutions of the State Bank were formed: in the fronts - offices, in the armies - departments, in the formations - cash desks. At the same time, significant amounts of funding fell on military supplies: up to a third of all expenditures according to the estimates of the People's Commissariat of Defense.
Interestingly, the quality of the work of military financiers in those years was also assessed by the level of non-cash payments. Certificates for officers for families were introduced, a subscription to government loans, contributions to defense funds were organized. The specialists of the financial services were also entrusted with the tasks of accounting for trophy values and foreign exchange, which were capitalized according to the acts of commissions of military units.
The memoirs of the then Minister of Finance Arseniy Zverev eloquently testify to the quality of the work of the financial service of the Red Army during the war years: “Having large funds, the Financial Department of the People's Commissariat of Defense had such reserves that even Narkomfin did not have. But it never clung to them, but approached the matter in a stately manner. In this regard, the contact between me and Khotenko (head of the Financial Department of the People's Commissariat of Defense) was complete. If the People's Commissariat of Finance encountered difficulties (and this, of course, happened more than once during the war), I knew for sure that, turning to Financial management People's Commissariat of Defense, I will meet assistance.
The contribution of military financiers to ensuring the Victory was duly appreciated by the state. 95 percent of the officers of the financial service of the army and navy were awarded orders and medals.
In the early post-war years, when the country directed colossal resources to restore the national economy destroyed by the war, the army and navy were given the task of developing and using the capabilities of the economy of the Armed Forces. Hence - the accelerated development of various areas of the economy of the Armed Forces (construction, industrial and agricultural production, military trade, the internal economy of the troops, etc.) and, accordingly, the strengthening of the role of the financial service of the Ministry of Defense and its gradual transformation into financial and economic.
During the years of the Cold War, when the reform of the Armed Forces was carried out in the direction of strengthening the nuclear missile component, the size of the army and navy was increased to almost five million people, which led to the inevitable development of the uninhabited northern, eastern and southern territories. These circumstances put the troops in conditions that required the development of their own internal economy, independent support services, incl. and financial. This also led to the widespread development of a network of field banks.
The system of financial support for the Armed Forces has been improved along with changes in their combat strength, military and social infrastructure.
The troops should be engaged in solving their main task - achieving high combat readiness. Therefore, today all the functions of material and financial support have been withdrawn from the combat echelon and concentrated in the territorial bodies.
This solves not only the task of increasing the mobility and combat readiness of troops, but also the possibility of the most efficient use of human resources, the introduction of modern means of analysis, technical innovations and, of course, saving financial resources.
This system of financial support for the troops (forces) has already shown its advantages and is in line with the chosen strategy for building up the Russian Armed Forces.
Today, the system of financial support is based on the territorial-sectoral principle.
Financial provision of military units and organizations of the Armed Forces is carried out through territorial financial bodies and sectoral managers: these are military educational and scientific centers and leading military medical institutions that have their own financial bodies.
Levels of bringing budget funds to recipients and participants have been optimized budget process, the principle of operational subordination of the heads of territorial financial bodies to the commander of the military districts has been implemented. At the same time, tasks for the financial support of units were excluded from the duties of commanders. Settlements with the personnel of the military level were transferred to the Unified Settlement Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The established system of financial support for troops (forces) ensures transparency financial flows and makes it possible to solve the problems of timely and full financing of military formations in various conditions of the situation, including when solving suddenly arising tasks.
Responding to the threats and challenges to its security, Russia launched a large-scale modernization of the Armed Forces. Objectively, this is a long-term and very expensive process. And the national security of the Russian Federation directly depends on how efficiently the federal budget funds are spent. In turn, a high level of military security, by the very fact of its presence, guarantees the stability of the economic system, the security of investments in the Russian economy, and people's confidence in the future.
The Financial and Economic Service of the Russian Armed Forces performs the functions of financial support for all military command and control bodies, paramilitary formations. The organization has an old, complicated history and has been in existence for almost a century.
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The training of new cadres of military financial officers is a very serious and fundamental task for the country. Employees of this structure are graduates of specialized higher and secondary educational institutions. But it was not always so. At first, personnel training was limited to preparatory courses or studies at military economic schools. At all times, the state treated the training of these specialists with particular attention.
The training of military financiers did not stop even in wartime, and the colossal experience of serving wartime financiers became the basis for training new personnel in peacetime. Graduates of military financial schools were very valuable specialists, especially in turbulent times, because only during the years of the Patriotic War a significant part of the country's total budget passed through the military financial and economic system. During the war years, employees of this sphere occupied high command positions.
The main educational institutions for training specialists are located in Moscow and Yaroslavl. In the 1990s, a proposal was published to create a basis for the training of this kind of financiers in civilian higher educational institutions, but this idea never materialized.
Traditions
Employees of the organization often celebrate the holiday with their colleagues. Not infrequently, banquets or corporate events are organized with an official part, where political and senior government officials (Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Prime Minister of the country) congratulate employees. The best employees of the organization are awarded certificates of honor, awards, commendation lists and prizes, titles are awarded, gratitude is given for excellent service to the Fatherland with entry in personal files.
Veterans of the organization are congratulated with postcards and flowers, invited to a banquet and an official solemn part, where once again they are given letters of thanks and tribute is paid for their invaluable contribution to the development of the financial support of the Armed Forces. modern Russia. In honor of the heroes of the occasion, fireworks of local significance are launched, national pop stars and comedians congratulate them with their songs and dances.
Congratulations on the day of the financial and economic service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation! I wish you to always understand perfectly and perceive your work as a pleasure! May you be lucky in life, and success and good mood do not cease to be present in your life! I wish you to enjoy every moment and believe in the best - then justice will be on your side!
On Financial and Economic Day, I wish you a lot:
Good luck, aspirations, take-off in your career!
I sincerely congratulate you
To be able to open any doors in life.
Let the finances be "excellent",
Let everything be harmonious, easy,
Let fate please decently
Salary, bonuses and more!
Financial tasks are an important part of life, without which you can not do. Therefore, dear representatives of this sphere, I congratulate you on your indispensability, importance and great significance for society! Let everything be excellent in your destiny. May health never fail you. Happiness, prosperity, material prosperity! Happy Financial and Economic Service Day!
Dear our employee of the financial and economic service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, we want to congratulate you on your professional day! We wish you success in all matters and not only in financial, but also in the heart! Let life go well and bring only pleasure! Please accept our sincere wishes for good, happiness, love, health and financial well-being!
Today, from the very morning, I just can’t wait to congratulate you on the day of financial and economic service! Well, I won’t restrain myself: I wish you health, joy, love, positive, good luck, kindness, and let your closeness to money make you richer. May life be full, bright and happy. Congratulations on your professional day!
The day of financial service has come,
I congratulate you on a wonderful holiday!
May luck lead you on this Earth,
So that everything in life is subject to!
You masterfully deal with money,
Directing them to a good cause,
You are the pride of Russia, a great country,
She can be with you alone!
You form the budget of the troops so that they
We were always able to get the job done on time!
You have many directions, tasks, and you
Don't let them be rude!
Dear our employees of the financial and economic service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, we congratulate you on your professional holiday! Let material well-being make you even better, give you great opportunities for career growth and financial independence. Know that the whole country, the people are proud of you and appreciate you and your work. Your work is invaluable. We appreciate you and your talents. May everything go well in your life.
By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 24, 2015, a professional holiday of the financial and economic service was established, which is celebrated annually on October 22. The new memorable date was introduced not only as a tribute to the merits of military financiers, but also as evidence of the increased role of the financial and economic service of the Russian army.
Due to their specific nature, military financiers have never been in the public eye. The prototype of the army financial service was created under Peter I, who established the post of commissar general and centralized the financial support of the Russian army. Under him, the first salary salaries for regular army servicemen were introduced, depending on their official position, rank and even type of troops.
On October 22, 1918, by order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic, for the first time in the history of the army and navy, a regulation on the financial department was adopted and a legal document on an independent financial body was put into effect.
During the Great Patriotic War, military financiers quickly organized cash and settlement services in the army, formed field institutions of the State Bank: offices at the fronts, departments in the armies, cash desks in formations. Already in 1943, the share of non-cash payments amounted to 75% of the total amount of money paid at the front. In total, over a trillion rubles (50.8% of budget expenditures) passed through the financial system of the army and navy during the war years.
Today, an effective three-tier system has been created to finance the troops. The first level is the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, which is the main manager of federal budget funds. The second level is the managers of the federal budget, for example, large military hospitals, head centers of military education. The third level - directly recipients of budgetary funds.
Troops are financed on a territorial and sectoral basis. In the first case, financial support is provided through the territorial financial authorities. Large military educational institutions and leading military medical institutions, which have their own financial bodies, are financed on a sectoral basis.
In conditions when significant funds are being allocated to strengthen the country's defense capability, the efficiency of spending this money directly depends on military financiers. And national security depends on how effectively each military ruble is spent.
As a result of a large and complex work to determine the minimum required level of financing of military spending, we managed to defend some of the positions, the reduction of which is the most sensitive for the Russian Ministry of Defense.
At the same time, the Ministry of Defense constantly monitors the effectiveness of budget spending and the quality of management of federal budget funds. By order of the President of the Russian Federation, an interdepartmental system of control over the spending of state defense order funds has been created and is effectively operating.
Financial planning, budget execution in terms of expenditures, public procurement management, management accounting, control and audit, asset management and other parameters are analyzed. This work is being done to improve the quality of management decisions and improve the efficiency of spending.
An example of such a solution is a new approach to reducing receivables for federal budget expenditures, in which the advance payment of government contracts under the state defense order is carried out quarterly, based on a real assessment of the production capabilities of enterprises in the military-industrial complex (DIC).
Do not forget that defense spending is a guarantee of the development of the national industry, and its most high-tech part. The lion's share of the military budget goes to finance defense industry enterprises, which are the locomotive of the Russian economy. These costs have a multiplier effect, since the increase in production by defense industry enterprises accelerates the demand for metals, electricity, transport services, etc., which in turn leads to an increase in production volumes in these sectors.
In 2016, for the first time in the history of the Russian army, the readiness of the financial and economic service for operations in wartime conditions was tested. To work out the issues of financial support for the troops in the framework of the strategic command and staff exercise (SKSHU) "Kavkaz-2016", not only the financial support bodies of the Ministry of Defense, but also the Ministry of Finance of Russia and the Bank of Russia were involved.
For the first time, financial officers were called up from the reserve, who deployed financial services in the field and provided settlement and cash services to the troops during the maneuvers. The exercises showed that financial and economic bodies are ready to carry out their tasks not only in office conditions, but also at training grounds.