Functions:
- To comply with and control the compliance of the Ministry's activity with the provisions issued by the global bodies of the economy in relation to planning, finance, prices, taxes, accounting and statistics.
- To prepare the draft of fundamental directives for the elaboration of the Plan and Budget for the entities of the Ministry.
- Analyzing, supporting and proposing for superior approval, according to the established, the plans and budgets of the entities of the Ministry, organizing and directing the process of elaboration of the same ones, as well as the control of the execution of the approved figures and rendering periodic reports of the results.
- To develop the process of Verification of Public Expenditure of the Ministry.
- Coordinate and methodologically control the link of the Ministry's Budgetary Units with the Single Treasury Account of the Ministry of Finance.
- Participate and advise in the process of formulating the preliminary draft of plans and budgets of the territories and analyze its periodic execution.
- Perform economic-financial analyses that allow evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the entities of the Ministry.
- To carry out economic-financial analyses and studies in the branches of culture and art, with the aim of achieving the successive improvement of the economic system of culture.
- To prepare and execute the distribution of financial resources, budgetary credits and investment funds, as well as those of salaries, according to established procedures.
- To guide the preparation of the Foreign Currency Revenue and Expenditure Budgets of the system of institutions, to submit them for approval and to control their execution.
- Orientar la elaboración de los Presupuestos de Ingresos y Gastos en Divisas del sistema de instituciones, someterlo a aprobación y controlar su ejecución.
- Analyzing and approving the price and tariff files for productions and services for which the Ministry is responsible for their formation and approval and providing institutional advice on this function.
- To develop the Ministry's programme of price inspections.
- To assume the tasks arising from the application of the country's tax policy and its implementation in the system of Culture, paying special attention to personal income taxes in the arts sector.
- To elaborate the general and specific guidelines and orientations in the technical and methodological order for the adaptation and application of the General Accounting Standards and the System of Cost Registration, bearing in mind the general and branch regulations oriented by the global governing bodies.
- To advise and verify the organization and implementation of the General Accounting Standards and their adequacy. The application of the Cost Systems and the established control procedures.
- To demand the timely delivery and quality of the financial statements by the entities, as well as to carry out the review, accounting analysis and consolidation of the same.
- To guide the work concerning cultural statistics, defining the system of indicators, information flow and approval of systems as the guiding branch.
- To advise and check the organisation and application of the statistical information system and the primary registers, taking care of their integration and compatibility with the accounting registers.
- To control compliance with the statistical discipline in the system of the Ministry, as well as that national entities and territories guarantee the information on the established dates and with the required quality, as a basis for the elaboration of reports that constitute a periodic source of cultural statistics.
- To be the depository and custodian of the data fund and historical series of national cultural statistics and to promote the data sources of international statistics.
- To participate in the formulation of institutional policy for the development of cultural production, marketing and business, exports, as well as in studies and proposals for wage policies and stimulation.
- To issue criteria about the effectiveness of the different economic projects that are presented.
