Starting from 2021, the State Treasury will be responsible for collecting financial information on municipalities. During 2020 municipalities and joint municipalities should test delivering their financial information to the Financial information service.
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Delivering the test material on an Excel form
The Excel form is currently only used in the reporting entity:
- Kuntien ja kuntayhtymien talousarvio ja -suunnitelma (KTAS)
You can download the Excel form here >
The user manual below contains instructions on how to deliver municipal budget and financial data on the Excel form.
You can download the Excel form user manual here >
You may also download a map containing field identifiers in accordance with the taxonomy in Excel form below.
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Submitting the test files via the website
Currently, XBRL instance documents that comply with the taxonomies of municipal finances or CSV files that the service can use to create the necessary XBRL instance documents may be submitted to the financial information services for municipalities.
The site for uploading the material: https://sipaapigw.azure-api.net/usertest/index.html
User ID: Enter the sender’s email address in the field. Its form will not be verified.
Password: Currently (15 September 2017), the password will not be verified, but this information must still be entered.
Material: The file to be sent.
Type of material: The type of material to be sent.
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Sending municipalities’ financial data via the Suomi.fi test service channel
Basic information about the role of Suomi.fi https://esuomi.fi/palveluntarjoajille/palveluvayla/sanasto (in Finnish)
The sending is typically done with software that performs the http sending (HTTP POST). The material is sent to the sender’s own API server, which passes it on to the financial information service for municipalities via the service channel.
Sending municipalities’ financial data via the Suomi.fi test service channel
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Submitting financial material on municipalities using the Suomi.fi interface (updated on 8 October 2018)
Basic information about the role of Suomi.fi https://esuomi.fi/palveluntarjoajille/palveluvayla/sanasto (in Finnish)
The API catalogue lists the APIs of Suomi.fi: https://liityntakatalogi.suomi.fi/en_GB/
Select State Treasury as the organisation.
The service can be browsed after registration and contains the WSDL template.
The API catalogue contains an example of the information that can be found there in the future.
https://liityntakatalogi.suomi.fi/en_GB/dataset/kirjastokeski
Material is typically sent with software that performs the http sending (HTTP POST).
The script template can be found below.
envelope Standard SOAP message. client Sender’s information. service Receiver’s, i.e. the information service’s, information. A picture of the test version. The service will be registered before the launch of the municipal pilot, and this information will change. userid User ID body Message content. A WSDL template exists for this. The information is the same as on the online sending page. -
Service Description Language file
The link leads to the interface description file.
After sending your material, you can view it in the approval service and verify that the test transfer was successful.
A template file for senders of CSV material
A budget and financial plan CSV (txt) > (in Finnish)
Further information:
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Testing status
The testing situation with municipalities and joint municipalities and their data suppliers in 30.9.2019. Test material concerning the reporting entity ‘budget and financial plan’ is primarily expected to be delivered to the Municipal Financial Information Service (14.11.2019).
Testing status for municipalities, joint municipalities and data suppliers.
Below you will find the status of testing in relation to the target situation. The target is that all municipalities have tested sending the budget and financial plan reporting entity successfully to the Municipal Financial Information Service by November 2019.
Testing status for municipalities, joint municipalities and data suppliers in relation to the target situation.
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The preparedness of municipalities and joint municipalities for sending financial data
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The testing instructions for the information service
Municipalities can submit test material to the financial information service for municipalities.
The financial information transfer service can receive test data in both XBRL and CSV formats. The amount of material does not need to be great, and the material itself need not be real. It could include a municipality’s balance sheet, profit and loss account or financial statement, for example.
THE LINK CONTAINS DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR TESTERS >
After sending your material, you can view it in the approval service and verify that the test transfer was successful.
More details on XBRL and XBRL taxonomy are available under the heading XBRL in the Ohjeet (‘Instructions’) tab.
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Instructions on testing the interface
Approved information that has been transferred to the register service can be accessed via the interface.
