Index

1 Introduction

2 The Move to Real-Time Reporting

2.1 Health Collect, Agency Information Management System (AIMS) and the F1

2.2 Manual and Other Electronic Submissions

3 Common Chart of Accounts

3.1 Business Rules

3.1.1 Specific Purpose Funds

3.2 Codes

3.2.1 Cost Centre Codes

3.2.2 Account Codes

3.2.3 Transmissible Codes

3.2.4 Victorian Public Hospital Entity and Campus Codes

3.3 Mapping of Codes

3.3.1 Cost Centre Codes to Service Cost Groups

3.3.2 DHS Grants to Account Codes and Cost Centre Codes

3.3.3 SAMS Activity Codes to Account Codes and Cost Centre Codes

3.3.4 AFR Mapping to the Common Chart of Accounts

3.3.5 Mapping of Cost Centre Codes to Clinical Cost Groups

3.3.6 Mapping of Account Codes to Clinical Costing Account Structure

3.4 Code Checker

4. Benchmarking Hospital Financial Performance

5 Financial Reporting Requirements of Public Hospitals

5.1 Monthly Financial Reporting

5.1.1 F1 Reporting Format

5.1.2 F1 Completion Guidelines

5.1.3 F1 General Ledger Specification

5.1.4 Instructions for preparing and uploading the trial balance into the F1

5.2 Quarterly Whole of Government Reporting (AFR)

5.3 Annual Report

5.4 Annual Return

5.5 Annual Commonwealth Aged Care Reporting

5.5.1 Conditional Adjustment Payment CAP

6 DHS Policy for Recognition of Revenue

7 Staff Entitlements

7.1 Annual Leave

7.1.1 Annual Leave Provision

7.1.2 Instructions for Calculating Annual Leave

7.2 Long Service Leave

7.3 Staff Expenditure

8 Salary Information

8.1 Labour Categories

8.2 Payroll and Workforce Minimum Dataset (MDS)

9 Useful Documents and Links

10 Archive of Superceded Documents

11 Frequently Asked Questions

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