Section 23 in The Indian Forest Service (Probationers' Final Examination) Regulations, 2016
23. Forest Administration and Accounts Procedures. - (1) Forest Administration: Organisational Setup (Organogram) of the forest department in the States and Government of India, managing through office, managing through field; range inspection: forms, records and registers. manuals of office procedure, performance appraisals, writing annual confidential reports( ACRs), disciplinary rules, legal matters, election process, Assembly and Parliamentary questions, committees etc. e-governance policy and guidelines, management information system, forestry planning and budgeting, asset management.
(2)Forest Accounts. - Difference between forest accounts and revenue accounts; departmentalised accounting system; budget, revenue receipts, custody and payment of government money, control of expenditure and reconciliation administrative and financial powers, delegation of financial powers, forest officers as drawing-cum-disbursing officers (DDOs); audit-internal audit; personal deposit account and personal loan account, accounts code etc. stores - purchase, maintenance, write-off, miscellaneous expenditure, general instructions; withdrawal from government account personal claims, contingent charges; disbursements; income tax, procedure for cheque-drawing; DDOs; maintenance of group 'D' staff general provident fund accounts.
