Procedure of SHG accounting - 1. Some SHGs write accounts in regular note books, whilst others write it in printed accounts
-Multiple data entry is required in various books of accounts
-Data is often noted down in an unclear manner.
2. Some SHGs are not able to maintain accounts and take help of the Sahayogini
3. Some illiterate members can’t keep track of their personal accounts
4. Financial data of an SHG has to be reported periodically to the SHPA, for which the data has to be transported physically.
Accounting system on Mobile - The accounting application of SHG consists of options like pay money (monthly installment), take loan, SHG account details, SHG member details.
This menu makes easy to use application, the language used in the menu is day-to-day language used in the SHG accounting.
Account screen of an SHG member - Monthly details are available in a tabular format for easy understanding of the data. To save space, monthly savings, EMI and interest (which need not be compared across months) were placed in a pullout
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Accounting System for Self Help Groups
This project was undertaken at IDC, IITB.
The goals of this project are:
Saving time and efforts required for doing SHG accounting
Making SHG accounting easy and error free
Bringing about transparency in
Aggregating financial information from multiple SHGs in a village, taluka, district and state
Creating a channel for direct information delivery to members of an SHG