A TWO-MONTH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT PERFORMANCE PURCHASING AGENCY IN BUEA
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Internship is an opportunity to participate practice, experiencing real working life environment, and career related experience in to an undergraduate education. The two months internship was carried out at the Performance Purchasing Agency.
Performance Purchasing Agency (PPA) is a health sector supporting project that was created in April 2009 and went functional in 2011 in one region which is the Littoral region of Cameroon. In 2012, the project was established in 4 regions which are East, Littoral, North West and South West with a population of 587.985. The facilities are more of public, private and faith base or confessional. It objective is to increase the quality and quantity assessment of health facilities that will better the welfare of the citizens or community. The aim of this internship was to blend Accounting theory and practice.
However, my focus area was on the Accounting department, to know how they reconcile with their bank, how they pass on their transaction with the bank. The intern examine how the performance forms are been collected, the request for payment been sent to PAISS, when approve and confirmed, payment request sent to the bank and the payment of the health facilities made.
The imputed charges collected from the bank and the reconciliation of the bank account and that of the organization been reconciled with the use of TOM2PRO soft ward system. And also to know the reasons of bank reconciliation.
More so, one of the strength of the agency is that, when it comes to performance it carefully applies the cannons of performance of its staffs and the health facilities involve. The principle governing the agency is segregation of duty, competition of contract, inclusive approach that is no discrimination, managerial
Despite all the strategic put in place to avoid laziness the agency still have some weakness in the fact that the community feedback of health facilities is not well follow up because it has the same writing and this is due to limited time given for the verification, there is shortage of working equipment like computers tables and To conclude PPA is strictly following up to avoid all this and better the community welfare. The internship was so enriching because I learn that it is good to contain conflict and this helps in fasten conflict resolutions.
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
An internship according to the Random House Dictionary defines the word as “any official or formal program to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession.
During this time, mostly towards the end of the school year, students are given the opportunity through the school administration to experience real working life environment . It is an important tool to professionalism because it builds your mind socially and psychologically to the challenges of the changing world.
The internship was carried out for a period of two months which is from the 13thof July to the 15th of September 2015 at Performance Purchasing Agency Buea .Many things were learned practically from the activity carryout by the organization some of which include filling of the petty cash book, inventory, payment of subsidies, bank reconciliation.
1.2 Aims And Objective Of The Internship
The practical experience of working environment is important for professional development .The aim and objective of this study are
- To applied the knowledge and skill obtained from theory practically
- For partial fulfillment of HND program
- To learn the ethics of personnel management
- To motivate a personal carrier interest to save as a bridge between the school and the world of work.
- To expose, encourage, and build a mind of working experience and knowledge that is required in the job market.
1.3 operational Definition Of Terms
Bank statement;
This is a statement sent regularly to the business entity listing all the transaction that the bank has record in the account for the entity since the previous statement and the current balance on the account.
Bank reconciliation statement;
This is the statement prepare to reconcile the differences between the balance as pre the bank column of the cash book and pass book on any given date.
Bank transactions;
This involves the receipt and payment beside the cash book, bank transaction after other balance sheet and income (income and expenditure account) and all payment is done through bank transactions.
Balance sheet;
This is a written statement showing the amount of money and property the company has and listing what has been received and paid out.
Performance Base Finance;
This is a health financing strategy based on results and build contractual relationship between the difference actors of the health facilities.
Cashbook;
This is a book that we record cash receipt and payment. It is the only book of original entry in which double entry completed.
CHAPTER TWO
PRESENTATION OF THE ORGANISATION
2.1 LOCATION
Performance Purchasing Agency is an agency which is situated in the Fako division of South West region of Cameroon It is found precisely on the ground floor of former GCE board building at sand pit
2.2 Historical Back Ground Of The Agency
Performance Purchasing Agency is an autonomous agency under the performance Base Finance project of the World Bank. It was initiated by the Cameroon government who later share the ideal with the World Bank who showed interest due to the lack of correlation between performance and expenditure in the Cameroon health sector.
PBF was implemented in 2009 and it went operational in 2011 .It started in a pilot face and the first region is the Littoral region .in 2012 it later spread to three different region which is the East, southwest and North west. Due to incompetence of a structure or services to run this project in these three regions the nongovernmental organization was used to supervise the activities like the IRESCo which was use in the south west.
This project came with a contractual approach in which health sector shift from the payment of input which were human resource, equipment, infrastructures, medicine to the payment of result base on the quality and quantity of service deliver.
The nongovernmental organizations run this project in south west for 3year.In 31st March 2015 to the Performance Purchasing Agency(PPA).
This project is been sample in four different district that is Kumba, Limbe, Buea, and Mamfe.
To achieve best performance, the ministry of public health (MOP) monitor, Regional special fund for health promotion (RSFHP) was kept to be the steering community, the central level in the regional level.
The coordination was done by the regional delegate of public health for south west and the district health service to supervise their activities. During the transition period series of meetings were held with the stake holders and the term of reference was lay down. Performance Purchasing Agency (PPA) went operational in 1 April.
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Department | Internship Report |
Project ID | INT0044 |
Price | Cameroonian: 5000 Frs |
International: $15 | |
No of pages | 38 |
Methodology | Descriptive |
Reference | Yes |
Format | MS word & PDF |
Chapters | 1-5 |
Extra Content | table of content, |
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A TWO-MONTH INTERNSHIP PROGRAM AT PERFORMANCE PURCHASING AGENCY IN BUEA
Project Details | |
Department | Internship Report |
Project ID | INT0044 |
Price | Cameroonian: 5000 Frs |
International: $15 | |
No of pages | 38 |
Methodology | Descriptive |
Reference | Yes |
Format | MS word & PDF |
Chapters | 1-5 |
Extra Content | table of content, |
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Internship is an opportunity to participate practice, experiencing real working life environment, and career related experience in to an undergraduate education. The two months internship was carried out at the Performance Purchasing Agency.
Performance Purchasing Agency (PPA) is a health sector supporting project that was created in April 2009 and went functional in 2011 in one region which is the Littoral region of Cameroon. In 2012, the project was established in 4 regions which are East, Littoral, North West and South West with a population of 587.985. The facilities are more of public, private and faith base or confessional. It objective is to increase the quality and quantity assessment of health facilities that will better the welfare of the citizens or community. The aim of this internship was to blend Accounting theory and practice.
However, my focus area was on the Accounting department, to know how they reconcile with their bank, how they pass on their transaction with the bank. The intern examine how the performance forms are been collected, the request for payment been sent to PAISS, when approve and confirmed, payment request sent to the bank and the payment of the health facilities made.
The imputed charges collected from the bank and the reconciliation of the bank account and that of the organization been reconciled with the use of TOM2PRO soft ward system. And also to know the reasons of bank reconciliation.
More so, one of the strength of the agency is that, when it comes to performance it carefully applies the cannons of performance of its staffs and the health facilities involve. The principle governing the agency is segregation of duty, competition of contract, inclusive approach that is no discrimination, managerial
Despite all the strategic put in place to avoid laziness the agency still have some weakness in the fact that the community feedback of health facilities is not well follow up because it has the same writing and this is due to limited time given for the verification, there is shortage of working equipment like computers tables and To conclude PPA is strictly following up to avoid all this and better the community welfare. The internship was so enriching because I learn that it is good to contain conflict and this helps in fasten conflict resolutions.
CHAPTER ONE
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
1.1 Introduction
An internship according to the Random House Dictionary defines the word as “any official or formal program to provide practical experience for beginners in an occupation or profession.
During this time, mostly towards the end of the school year, students are given the opportunity through the school administration to experience real working life environment . It is an important tool to professionalism because it builds your mind socially and psychologically to the challenges of the changing world.
The internship was carried out for a period of two months which is from the 13thof July to the 15th of September 2015 at Performance Purchasing Agency Buea .Many things were learned practically from the activity carryout by the organization some of which include filling of the petty cash book, inventory, payment of subsidies, bank reconciliation.
1.2 Aims And Objective Of The Internship
The practical experience of working environment is important for professional development .The aim and objective of this study are
- To applied the knowledge and skill obtained from theory practically
- For partial fulfillment of HND program
- To learn the ethics of personnel management
- To motivate a personal carrier interest to save as a bridge between the school and the world of work.
- To expose, encourage, and build a mind of working experience and knowledge that is required in the job market.
1.3 operational Definition Of Terms
Bank statement;
This is a statement sent regularly to the business entity listing all the transaction that the bank has record in the account for the entity since the previous statement and the current balance on the account.
Bank reconciliation statement;
This is the statement prepare to reconcile the differences between the balance as pre the bank column of the cash book and pass book on any given date.
Bank transactions;
This involves the receipt and payment beside the cash book, bank transaction after other balance sheet and income (income and expenditure account) and all payment is done through bank transactions.
Balance sheet;
This is a written statement showing the amount of money and property the company has and listing what has been received and paid out.
Performance Base Finance;
This is a health financing strategy based on results and build contractual relationship between the difference actors of the health facilities.
Cashbook;
This is a book that we record cash receipt and payment. It is the only book of original entry in which double entry completed.
CHAPTER TWO
PRESENTATION OF THE ORGANISATION
2.1 LOCATION
Performance Purchasing Agency is an agency which is situated in the Fako division of South West region of Cameroon It is found precisely on the ground floor of former GCE board building at sand pit
2.2 Historical Back Ground Of The Agency
Performance Purchasing Agency is an autonomous agency under the performance Base Finance project of the World Bank. It was initiated by the Cameroon government who later share the ideal with the World Bank who showed interest due to the lack of correlation between performance and expenditure in the Cameroon health sector.
PBF was implemented in 2009 and it went operational in 2011 .It started in a pilot face and the first region is the Littoral region .in 2012 it later spread to three different region which is the East, southwest and North west. Due to incompetence of a structure or services to run this project in these three regions the nongovernmental organization was used to supervise the activities like the IRESCo which was use in the south west.
This project came with a contractual approach in which health sector shift from the payment of input which were human resource, equipment, infrastructures, medicine to the payment of result base on the quality and quantity of service deliver.
The nongovernmental organizations run this project in south west for 3year.In 31st March 2015 to the Performance Purchasing Agency(PPA).
This project is been sample in four different district that is Kumba, Limbe, Buea, and Mamfe.
To achieve best performance, the ministry of public health (MOP) monitor, Regional special fund for health promotion (RSFHP) was kept to be the steering community, the central level in the regional level.
The coordination was done by the regional delegate of public health for south west and the district health service to supervise their activities. During the transition period series of meetings were held with the stake holders and the term of reference was lay down. Performance Purchasing Agency (PPA) went operational in 1 April.
Check Out: Internships Project Topics with Materials
This is a premium project material, to get the complete research project make payment of 5,000FRS (for Cameroonian base clients) and $15 for international base clients. See details on payment page
NB: It’s advisable to contact us before making any form of payment
Our Fair use policy
Using our service is LEGAL and IS NOT prohibited by any university/college policies. For more details click here
We’ve been providing support to students, helping them make the most out of their academics, since 2014. The custom academic work that we provide is a powerful tool that will facilitate and boost your coursework, grades, and examination results. Professionalism is at the core of our dealings with clients.
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