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1 Introduction
1. Purpose of Manual
10 System Overview
10. College administrative systems and the Center for Information Services (CIS)
10. Administrative Systems
a. How does college data get reported to the state?
b. Do colleges have options recording and classifying accounting information?
c. Where can I find state accounting policies?
20. How job scheduling controls the systems.
a. Schedule Job Groups Screen
b. Schedule Jobs Screen
c. Inquire About Scheduled Jobs
d. Prioritize Today’s Schedule
e. Maintain Report Formatting Defaults
f. Maintain Parameter Defaults
g. The Job Group Definition Screen
h. What are valid statuses for entering jobs or job groups?
i. Coordination of scheduled jobs.
30. What is the purpose of application security?
a. What are the responsibilities of the application security manager?
b. System Menu Screen (ZX9000)
c. Which screens are used to add a new user to the system?
d. User-Terminal Maintenance Screen (ZX0203)
e. Available Application Security Reports
f. What is the database for Application Security?
40. Database Reports
a. What software is used to produce Reports?
b. Procedures created using DataExpress can:
c. When running a procedure, the extracted report data can be directed to:
d. Downloading Extracted Report Data
50. Archival Purge Process
a. Types of batch processes
b. Annual Subledger Purge Process
c. Accounts Payable Purge Process
d. Control Tables
e. Customer Accounts Archival Process
f. Customer Accounts Purge Process
g. Cashiering POS Purge
60. Online Storage Management Screen (ZX0050)
a. What are the fields on the online storage management screen used for?
70. System Interfaces with SMS, PPMS, MIS
a. How does the student management systems interface with the financial management system?
1. Fee Calculation Process
2. Where can I get the results of the fee calculation process?
3. What are tuition calculations based upon?
4. What is a fee pay status?
5. What are tuition and fees based upon?
6. How is the fee code determined?
7. Additional fee codes
8. Where does fee calculation interface to FMS?
9. Refunding
10. Overriding refund percentiles
11. When are student records updated by fee calculation?
b. MIS - SBCTC's Management Information System
1. What is MIS reporting?
2. MIS Calendar
3. What does SBCTC do with the MIS data?
4. Why must class data be verified?
c. PPMS/FMS Interface
1. Payroll Banking: The Payroll Personnel Management System
2. How is money transferred into the central payroll account?
3. How do I verify individual payroll dollars to be transferred?
4. Payroll Accounting Options
5. Benefit Costs
6. FMS transaction codes used in payroll processing
7. FMS batch id's for payroll
8. FMS FAPC codes for payroll
9. Determining the FMS year/quarter (YRQ) of the Financial Aid Earnings
10. FMS Payroll Clearing and Liability Account (FUND 790)
11. Reconciling the Payroll Clearing Account
12. FMS Payroll Prepaid Account
13. What is the FMS batch post period?
14. When is the FMS batch post period?
15. What is the FMS batch date?
16. Payroll EFT Accounting
20. Fund Accounting
10. Funds
a. What is a fund?
20. Fund Categories
a. Governmental Funds
1. General Funds
2. Special Revenue Funds
3. Debt Service Funds
4. Capital Projects Funds
5. Permanent Funds
b. Proprietary Funds
1. Enterprise Funds
2. Internal Service Funds
c. Fiduciary Funds
1. Pension (and other employee benefit) Trust Funds
2. Investment Trust Funds
3. Private-Purpose Trust Funds
4. Agency Funds
d. Subsidiary Accounts
1. The General Capital Assets Subsidiary Account
2. The General Long Term Obligations Subsidiary Account
30. Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting
a. What is measurement focus?
1. What is meant by “flow of economic resources focus”?
2. What is meant by “flow of current financial resources focus”?
b. What is basis of accounting?
1. Accrual Basis
2. Modified Accrual Basis
c. Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting by Fund Type
1. Governmental Funds
2. Proprietary funds
3. Fiduciary funds
d. Fund Basis Matrix
40. Application of Fund Accounting using FMS
a. Budgeted or Nonbudgeted Funds
b. Fund Type Codes
1. FMS Type 1
2. FMS Type 2
3. FMS Type 3
4. FMS Type 4
5. FMS Type 5
c. FMS Classification Matrix
30. Chart of Accounts
10. FMS
a. What is the account structure of the FMS?
b. Cross-walk to AFRS
20. Funds
a. Funds Currently used in FMS
b. FUNDS by Group and Title
25. General Ledgers
a. Where can I get a list of general ledgers?
b. General Ledger Codes Defined
1. 0000 - Staff Months
2. 1000 - Current Assets
3. 1200 - Investments
4. 1300 – Short-Term Receivables
5. 1400 – Inventories
6. 1500 - Prepaid Expenses
7. 1600 – Long-Term Receivables
8. 1800 – General Long-Term Obligations Valuation Accounts
9. 1900 - Other Assets
10. 2000 – Fixed Assets
11. 3000 - Revenues
12. 4300 – Cash In Custody Of State Treasurer
13. 5000 – Liabilities
14. 5200 – Long-Term Obligations
15. 6000 – Expenditures
16. 7100 – In-Process Control Accounts
17. 8100 – Federal Student Loan Offset
18. 9000 – Fund Equity Accounts
19. 9800 – General Fixed Assets Subsidiary Accounts – Fund 997 Only
20. 9900 – Clearing Accounts
c. How are general ledgers entered into FMS?
30. Appropriations and Appropriation Indexes
a. What is an appropriation?
b. What funds are subject to the appropriation process?
c. How is an appropriation classified?
d. What is the appropriation index code?
e. Where can I get a list of appropriation index codes?
f. How are appropiation index codes determined?
40. Program Code/Program Index
a. What are program codes used for?
b. What is the program index?
c. Where can I get a list of program indexes?
d. What are major programs?
e. What are subprograms?
f. What is an organization index?
g. Coding Conventions for the Organization Index
h. Coding Conventions for Grants/Contracts/Capital Projects Organization Indexes
50. Object/Subobject of Expenditure
a. What is an object and a subobject?
b. Where can I find subObject codes?
c. What are the major objects?
d. Subobject Definitions
1. Exempt Classifications
2. Faculty Classifications
3. Stipends, Moonlighting and Overload Payments
4. Administrative Responsibility Payments or Stipends
5. Classified Staff Classifications
6. Other Employee Classifications
7. Employee Benefits
8. Personal Services Contracts
9. Goods and Services
10. Cost of Goods Sold - Proprietary Funds Only
11. Travel Classifications
12. Capital Outlays
13. Computer Hardware and Software
14. Interfund Operating Transfers
15. Grants, Benefits and Client Services
16. Debt Services
17. Interagency Reimbursements
18. Intra-Agency Reimbursements
19. Depreciation, Amortization and Bad Debts
e. What are sub-subobjects?
f. Where can I find a list of sub-subobjects?
60. Revenue Source Codes
a. What are revenue source codes?
b. Parts of the Revenue Source Code
c. Where can I find a list of revenue source codes?
70. Revenue Subsource
a. What is the revenue subsource code?
b. Where can I find a list of subsource codes?
80. Reimbursable Code
a. What is the reimbursable code?
b. Conventions for assigning Reimbursable Codes
c. Where can I find a list of reimbursable codes?
90. Subsidiary Account Code
a. What is the subsidiary account Code?
b. Parts of the Subsidiary Account Code
40. Accounting Transaction Codes
10. Transaction Codes
a. What is a transaction code?
b. How do fund types affect general ledgers generated by transaction codes?
c. Where can I find a list of transaction codes?
20 Operating Budget
10. State-Wide Budgeting Process
10. Statutory Requirements-State Level Process
a. What is the authority for development of a state-wide budget?
1. The State-Wide Budget Phases
2. Preparation Phase
3. Adoption Phase
4. Execution Phase
20. Operating Budget Request
a. Requirements
b. Budget Request Preparation
c. Budget Request Content
30. Allotment – Preparation and Approval
a. Requirements
b. What is included in the budget allotment?
c. How does SBCTC prepare a biennial allotment for the system?
d. Who approves the Allotments?
e. What is meant by Allotment Lapsing?
40. Allocations to Districts
a. State Boards Authority to Allocate Funds
b. Budget Allocation Process Described
20. Local Budgets
10. Local Budget Development Processes and Calendar
a. Description of Budget Development Process
b. What funds are budgeted at the local level?
c. How to Begin
d. What tools are available for budget development?
20. Procedures prior to entering the budget into the FMS system.
a. Job Group Annual Accounting /Budget Archival and Purge (FG043A)
b. Job Group Purge and Rebuild COA Tables For New Fiscal Year (FG046R)
30. Putting an Approved Budget Into FMS
a. Build the System Calendar for the New Year
b. Update the Chart of Accounts (COA) Table for the New Year (Job FG046R)
c. Change Budgeting and Report Levels (only if making a change from previous year)
d. Change Budget Indexes
e. Change Expenditure/Revenue Sort Codes
f. Change Salary Encumbrance Options
g. Build the Budget Initialization Tables
h. Budget Initialization Phase I (Job Group FG025R)
i. Budget Initialization Phase II (Job BA1302J)
40. Budget Upload (from Excel spreadsheet) Process
a. The budget upload process.
50. Budget Development Module
a. How are reports generated?
b. What does the budget development module consist of?
c. How does the budget development module upload data?
60. Appropriations and Allotments
a. Entering Your State Appropriation
b. Allotments in the FMS system
c. Budget Monitoring
70. Associated Student Body Budget Process
a. Is the ASB process the same for each college?
30 Capital Budget
10. Capital Fund types and Required Approvals
10. Appropriated Funds
a. How are funds acquired?
b. How long does an appropriation stay in affect?
c. What are the sources of state funds?
20. Non-appropriated Funds
a. What are non appropriated funds?
b. Expenditures of non-appropriated funds.
c. How are acquisitions approved?
d. How are funds spent?
30. Borrowed Funds
a. How are alternatively financed projects approved?
b. Certificates of Participation
20. Capital Project Approval Process
10. Approval Process for State Funded Projects
a. Capital Appropriations
b. Legislative Appropriation
c. Emergency/Discretionary Appropriations
20. Approval Process for Local-Funded Projects
a. Non-appropriated (Local) Funding
b. Projects Costing Over $400,000
c. Recommended Types of Approval
d. Matching Fund Projects – Clarification of Expenditure and Allowable Match
30. Approval Authority
a. Approval Authority Delegated to SBCTC Staff
40. Special SBCTC Considerations
a. Can elements of capital projects be split or combined to improve efficiency?
b. Alternative Construction Delivery Method
30. Rent/Lease of Real Property
10. GA Approvals
20. SBCTC
a. SBCTC Approvals
b. HEC Board Approvals
30. OFM
a. OFM Approvals
40. Legislative
a. Legislative Approval
40. Purchase of Real Property
10. GA Approvals
a. Where should requests be made?
b. Who holds the title to state owned real property?
c. How are repairs and remodeling handled?
20. SBCTC Approvals
a. SBCTC Approvals
30. HECB Approvals
a. Acquisitions via Condemnation.
50. Development Projects
10. Lease Development Projects
a. How is the approved list of lease development projects created?
60. Disposition of State Owned Real Property
10. Sale, Trade or Similar Disposition of Fee Title
a. How is approval of sale granted?
b. Who administers sales of state-owned real property?
c. Who gets the proceeds generated by sales?
20. Easements
a. Granting of Easements
70. Gifts and Joint Use Facilities
10. Non-Educational Service
a. SBCTC Approval
40 Accounting
10. Current Assets
10. Cash
a. Cash in Bank
1. What is included as cash in college accounting?
2. What is the procedure for handling cash?
b. Deposits in Transit
1. What are deposits in transit?
2. Recording Deposits in Transit
3. Monitoring General Ledger 1120 Deposits in Transit
c. Pooled Cash
1. What is pooled cash?
2. What is the procedure for handling pooled cash?
3. How do I track pooled cash?
4. Entries to the pooled cash general ledger.
5. Illustrative Entries
6. FMS Pooled Cash Process
7. Pooled Cash Out of Balance Conditions
d. Cash Reconciliations
1. Reconciliation of Cash
2. Reconciliation Tools
3. Sample Cash Reconciliation Worksheets
20. Petty Cash
a. What is petty cash?
b. Where can I find petty cash regulations?
c. Who controls the petty cash account?
d. Establishing a Petty Cash Account
e. Authorized Uses of Petty Cash Accounts
f. Disbursement of Petty Cash
g. Reconciliation of Petty Cash
h. Reimbursement of Petty Cash Fund
i. Abolishment of Local Petty Cash Account
j. Illustrative Entries
30. Investments
a. Investing
1. What are short term investments?
2. What are non-current investments?
3. What are the internal controls for investments?
b. Allowable Investments
1. Acceptable Investment Options
2. Local Government Investment Pool
c. Investment Valuation
1. Short Term Investments
2. Long Term Investments
3. Accounting for Investments
4. Illustrative Entries:
d. Investment Interest Distribution
1. Pooled Interest distribution concept
2. Bank Analysis Earnings
40. Accounts Receivable
a. When and how are account receivables recorded?
1. What is included on an invoice?
2. Which general ledgers are involved with A/R activity?
3. Which FMS processes are used to record A/R transactions?
4. Using FMS Customer Accounts (BM1620) to process A/R activity.
5. Using the General Accounting Transaction (GA1103) for A/R activity.
6. Recording Receipts on Accounts Receivable
7. Using the FMS Customer Accounts process to record payments received on account.
8. Using the Unofficial Enrollment Report to identify accounts receivable
9. Using OBIS to invoice SBCTC
b. NSF Check Procedures
c. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
d. Collection/Write Off Procedures
1. Requirement for Written Collection Procedures
2. Accounts Receivable Aging Reports
3. Requirement to Assess Interest on Past-due Receivables
4. Sample Policies
e. Accounts Receivable Aging
1. Using the Customer Accounts A/R Aging Report
2. Aging receivables using the FMS A/R Subledger.
f. Travel Advances
1. How do I submit and account for travel advances?
g. Accounts Receivable Reconciliation
50. Inventories
a. Systems of Accountability for Inventory
b. Are there different requirements for merchandise and consumable inventories?
1. Allowable Inventory Tracking Methods for Merchandise
2. Consumable Inventory Accounting Methods
3. What are the requirements for conducting a physical count of inventory?
c. What are some standard internal controls for inventories?
d. Unique Requirements for Managing Consumable Inventories.
1. Which general ledger is used to record consumable inventories?
2. How are ongoing purchases and uses of consumable inventory recorded?
3. Reservation of Fund Balance for Consumable Inventories
4. Is there special treatment required for donated consumable inventories?
5. What account coding is used for donated consumable inventories?
e. Accounting Requirements for Merchandise Inventories.
1. Merchandise Inventory Illustrative Entries
60. Prepaid Expenses
a. What general ledger is used with prepaid expenses?
b. Illustrative Entries for Prepaid Expenses
20. Fixed Assets
10. Definitions of Terms Used with Fixed Assets
a. Capital Leases
b. Capitalizing
c. Certificate of Participation (COP)
d. Commodity Code
e. Depreciation
f. Facilities And Equipment-(FAE)
g. Market Valuation Index
h. Operational Lease
i. SARS
20. Types and Descriptions of Fixed Assets
a. Land (general ledger 2110)
b. Building (general ledger 2210) (Purchased/Self-Constructed/Donated)
c. Improvements Other Than Buildings (IOTB) or Infrastructures (general ledger 2310)
d. Equipment, Furnishings and Software (general ledger 2410)
e. Library Resources (general ledger 2430)
f. Construction in Progress (general ledger 2510)
30. Physical Inventory Procedures
a. How often are physical inventories taken?
b. What are the source documents for counting inventory?
c. What happens to untagged equipment?
d. Who is responsible for equipment co-owned with CIS?
e. Written Inventory Instructions Required
f. Reconciling the Physical Inventory to the Inventory Records
g. How are discrepancies between the inventory records and the physical inventory dealt with?
h. Certification of Inventory Reconciliation Required
40. Fixed Asset Identification Policy\Numbering System
a. Inventory Officer’s Responsibility for Tagging Assets.
b. Standard Numbering System for Fixed Assets
c. Assigning Responsibility When Assets are Shared, or Owned and Located Externally.
d. Assets Owned by External Agencies
e. Assets Located at External Agencies
50. Capitalization Policy
a. Determining whether or not to capitalize an expense.
b. Splitting out the costs for a combined project.
c. How to Determine an Asset’s Value
1. Valued at Cost
2. Ancillary Charges Included
d. How are trade-ins accounted for?
60. Recording Fixed Assets in the Financial Management System (FMS)
a. General Capital Assets Subsidiary Account (fund 997)
b. Internal Services and Proprietary Funds (fund type 4)
1. How are fund type 4 acquisitions of land, buildings, improvements, library resources and construction in progress recorded?
2. Equipment purchases in proprietary funds
3. Reporting GL 2410 Expenditures on the BA 1201 Budget Status Report
c. How do I record the fixed asset of a construction COP that uses multiple funding sources?
1. One Source of Funding
2. Two Sources of Funding
3. Multiple Sources of Funding
4. How to handle the future principal and interest payments for multiple source COPs?
70. Depreciation of Fixed Assets
a. Are all fixed assets depreciated?
b. Where is depreciation recorded?
c. How is depreciation recorded in FMS?
d. Depreciation in General Fixed Asset Account Group (fund 997)
e. Depreciation in Internal Services and Proprietary Funds (fund type 4):
80. Disposals and Changes of Fixed Assets
a. Record Maintenance for Disposed Assets
b. How are disposals recorded in FMS?
1. Disposals in General Fixed Assets Account Group (fund 997)
2. Disposals in Proprietary and Internal Service Funds (fund type 4)
3. How do I find the accumulated depreciation?
90. Reconciliation of FMS to FAE
a. How do FMS and FAE function together?
b. What records need to agree between FMS and FAE for governmental fund types?
c. What records need to agree between FMS and FAE for proprietary fund types?
d. How do I manage and reconcile facilities entries on FAE?
1. Example of Asset Constructed over Multiple Years
2. What reports show activity posted in FAE?
e. How to manage and reconcile equipment entries on FAE?
f. How do I obtain summary totals of activity in FAE?
1. Calculating Monthly Totals
2. Reconciling Monthly FAE Totals to FMS
g. Ways to Obtain FAE Detail
1. MM5202 Equipment Transaction Log (produced by job MM5202J).
2. DATAX Reports
3. MM5211 Equipment Detail Listing
h. How do I obtain transaction detail in FMS?
i. How do I correct miscoded state tag numbers for equipment recorded in FAE?
j. Reconciling the FMS/FAE Differences
30. Liabilities
10. Accounting for Liabilities
a. What are liabilities?
b. Where can I find information on liability general ledgers?
c. What are accrued liabilities?
15. Payable Accruals
a. Where are accounts payable accruals entered?
b. How are estimated accruals recorded?
20. Payroll Accruals
a. Where are payroll accruals performed?
b. How do I record sick, and annual and compensatory leave accruals?
c. Interagency Payables and Receivables
30. Deferred Revenues
a. What are deferred revenues?
b. When is deferred revenue recorded?
c. Recording Deferred Revenue
d. Reversing Deferred Revenue
40. Escrows/Retainage
45. Sales and Use Tax
50. Unemployment Compensation
a. What source of funds is used to pay the quarterly billings for UC benefits?
1. What are the advantages of Direct Pay versus using a UC Reserve?
b. What are the steps for creating an Unemployment Compensation Reserve?
1. How do I determine the rate for contributions to my UC Reserve account?
c. How is the UC reserve rate applied to salary and wage charges?
d. Automatic Unemployment Compensation Reserve
1. Where are the UC Reserve contribution recorded?
2. How do I set up the UC Reserve contribution percentage in PPMS?
3. Establishing the PPMS UC Reserve tables.
4. CIS documentation for UC Reserve process in PPMS
60. Bonds Payable
a. What are bonds?
b. Recording Bond Proceeds
65. Lease Purchase Agreements
a. Recording Capital Lease Obligations
70. Lease Accounting
a. What are the types of lease accounting available?
75. Certificates of Participation (COP)
a. What are the types of COPs?
b. When are the proceeds of the COP available to the college?
40. Fund Balance/Retained Earnings
10. Fund Balance/Retained Earnings
a. What is fund equity?
1. Fund balance account (governmental funds)
2. Proprietary type fund equity accounts
20. Reservation of Fund Balance
a. What is a reserve?
b. Types of reserve accounts
30. Capital asset valuation accounts.
a. What is asset valuation?
b. GL9850 – Investment in General Capital Assets
50. Receipts/Revenue
10. Tuition Revenue
a. What is tuition revenue?
b. Where does tuition and fee revenue get deposited?
1. Initial Tuition Receipt
2. Tuition Distribution at End-of-Month
c. Tuition and Fee Distribution Table
1. How is a State Treasurer payment recorded?
2. How is unpaid tuition recorded?
3. How is advance revenue recorded?
d. Illustrative Example Entries:
1. Tuition Revenue Receipt
2. Automatic Distribution
3. State Treasurer Payment
4. Advance and deferred Revenue
15. Excess Enrollment
a. What is the advantage of excess enrollments?
b. What are college requirements for excess enrollments?
c. What are the excess enrollment rules?
d. How does the excess enrollment process work?
20. Intergovernmental Receipts
a. Due from Federal Government
b. Due from Other State Agencies
c. Illustrative Entries
1. Quasi-External
2. InteragencyRreimbursements
d. Due from Local Government
30. Income from Property
a. What is income from property?
1. Parking and Housing
2. Facility Rental
3. Dedicating the Revenue
40. Income from Sale of Bonds
a. Illustrative Entries
1. Bond Issue Receipt
2. Receipt from Bond Issue
50. Cash Over and Short
a. How do I record cash shortages and overages?
b. Illustrative Entries
1. Cash Over
2. Cash Short
60. Unidentifiable Receipts
a. Illustrative Entries
70. Prior Biennium Recoveries
a. Where do I record prior biennium recoveries?
b. Illustrative Entries
1. Local Funds
2. Treasury Funds
75. Immaterial Prior Period Adjustment
80. Interest Income
a. Illustrative Entries
1. Pooled Investment Interest
2. Accrued Interest
3. Payment of Interest
60. Expenditures
10. Purchasing
a. What are purchase requisitions?
b. What should be included on a purchase requisition?
c. What is a purchase order?
d. What is a purchase order used for?
e. Competitive Bidding Requirements
f. Purchasing Internal Control Elements
g. Budget Authority/Coding
h. Where should deliveries be made?
i. Process for handling deliveries.
j. When is an invoice considered approved?
20. Encumbrances
a. What is an encumbrance?
b. Where do I record encumbrances?
c. Which funds are subject to encumbrance accounting
d. Encumbrance Policies
e. Liquidating an encumbrance.
f. Types of liquidations
g. Where do I record liquidations?
30. Paying the Bills
a. What source documents are required when paying bills?
b. Who authorizes expenses for goods and services?
c. Where do I record accounts payable documents?
d. How to verify accounts payable documents
e. When should payments be reconciled?
f. How do I verify payments on goods and services?
g. When should payments be made?
h. How are due dates for payments determined
i. Internal control elements for disbursements
j. What should be done with blank vendor check stock?
40. Payroll Vendor Payments
a. FMS Pending Payment Report (BM3105)
b. FMS Processed Batch Reports (GA1201 and GA1202)
c. What are the general ledger’s batch identifiers?
d. When are payroll vendor payments processed?
e. Where are payroll vendor payments displayed?
50. Recovery of Expenses
a. Recovery of Expenses
60. Sales and use tax
a. What is sales tax?
b. What is use tax?
70. Belated Claims
a. What are belated claims?
b. Requesting payment for belated claims.
c. Criteria for valid belated claims.
80. Affidavit of Lost Checks
a. How to report a lost or destroyed check
b. How to report a check that has been forged
90. Independent Contractors
a. What are independent contractors?
b. Considering hiring a consultant/contractor?
50 Accounting Processes
10. Transfers
10. Operating Transfers
a. Operating Transfers
b. Illustrative Entries
c. Operating Transfers Within a Single Fund
20. "T" Transfers
a. What Function Does a "T" Transfer Serve?
b. Are There Restrictions on the Use of "T" Transfers?
20. Payroll
10. Payroll Overview
20. PPMS Tables
a. The Institution Parameter Table, PPMS Table PS9001
b. Parameter Numbers 302 to 311
c. Parameter Numbers 329-332
d. Parameter #1014 – Benefits Option
e. Parameter #1016 – Prepaid Deduction Account Code
f. Parameter #1031 – Employer Cost Default Account
g. Parameter # 1032 – Health Cost Option
h. Deduction Table, PPMS Table PS9002
i. Transaction Codes
j. Account Codes
k. Vendor Numbers
l. Deduction Payment Method
m. Workstudy Split Table, PPMS Table PS9046
30. Reconciling PPMS to FMS
a. What PPMS reports are used for reconciling to FMS?
b. Which FMS reports are most useful for reconciling to PPMS?
c. How does the payroll process affect a college’s local account?
40. PPMS Scheduling System
a. What are the PPMS jobs/job groups?
50. Illustrated Entries to FMS for a Hypothetical Payroll
a. PS1425 – Vendor Payment Liability Report
b. PS1425 – Payroll Expense EFT Summary
c. FMS Daily Processed Batch ID-09
d. FMS Daily Processed Batch ID-06
e. FMS Daily Processed Batch Summary of GL Transactions
f. Accrued Payroll Transactions, Batch ID 07 and 06
60. Reconciling Fund 790
a. What reports are useful for reconciliation of fund 790? FMS Report
b. PPMS Reports
c. Tips to aid in reconciliation
70. Miscellaneous Payroll Procedures
a. How are final payments for deceased employees processed?
1. Final Check Disposition
b. Unemployment Costs Procedures
1. Details of Unemployment Cost Procedures
c. Sick Leave Buyout at Retirement
1. Non-allotted and Grants and Contracts – Estimates and Reserve Accounts
75. TIAA/CREF Negative Contributions
a. What are net-negative contributions?
b. Are PPMS processes available to assist with net-negative contributions?
c. What are the FMS procedures related to net-negatives?
d. FMS Example:
30. Grants and contracts.
10. Definitions
20. Grant / Contract Management
a. What should be considered when applying for a grant or contract?
b. Signature / Review Process
c. Grant / Contract Checklist
d. Accounting Codes Used in Grants and Contracts
1. Expenditure Codes
2. Valid Revenue Source Codes
40. FMS/PPMS Reports for Grants and Contracts
50. Billing Grants and Contracts
a. Where are original invoice filed and what are the general responsibilities related to invoicing?
b. How are grant and contract costs tracked?
c. Where should payments received on grants and contracts be processed?
d. How do I determine when to bill on a grant or contract?
e. What billing forms should I use for grants or contracts?
f. Request for Payment/Reimbursement
g. Requesting Federal Funds Via e-payments
1. What is an e-payments request based upon?
h. How do I record payments requests for grants/contracts?
i. How do I track revenue from federal grants and contracts?
j. Coding Reimbursement Contracts with other State Agencies
k. Coding Receipts from Non-State Revenue Sources
l. Common Receipting Procedures and Practices
60. Grants and Contracts Table Maintenance
a. Budget Update
70. Indirect/Administrative Allowance/Overhead
a. Federal Grant and Contract Indirect
1. When are indirect costs factored into a grant?
2. How are indirect costs applied against a grant?
80. Time and Effort
a. Records of Time and Effort
b. Record Keeping Requirements
1. Dedicated work assignment
2. Split work assignment
c. How are time and effort documentation used?
40. Financial Aid
10. Federal Grants and Aid
a. SEOG and Pell Grants
1. The Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC)
2. Establishing An Account Code
3. Draw Down of Pell/SEOG Award
4. Calculating Pell/SEOG Draw Down Amount
5. Reconciliation
6. Pell and SEOG Grant Administrative Cost Allowance
7. SEOG Match
b. Stafford Loan (GSL)
1. Establishing An Account Code
c. Federal Work-Study (FWS)
1. Establishing An Account Code
2. Can the payroll system be used to automate the split coding?
3. Allowable Charges
4. Reconciliation
5. Off-Campus Federal College Work-Study
d. Title IV Refunds (Return to Title IV: R2T4)
1. What are the Statutory and Regulatory Citations for R2T4?
2. Summary of R2T4 Refund Requirements
3. Excludable Costs
4. Return To Title IV Refund Calculation Data
5. Steps in processing a R2T4
6. Provide a fee code for student refunds
20. State Grants and Aid
a. State Need Grant
b. Establishing An Account Code
c. The Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC)
1. Drawn Down State Need Grant Award
2. Reconciliation
d. State Work Study
1. Establishing an Account Code
2. Drawdown of State Work Study Award
3. Reconciliation
e. Waivers
1. Establishing An Account Code
2. The Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC).
f. Workfirst Work Based Learning Tuition Assistance
1. Establishing an Account Code
2. Establishing A Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC)
3. Reconciliation
4. Reimbursement
g. Worker Retraining Financial Aid
1. Establishing an Account Code
2. Establishing a Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC)
3. Reimbursement
30. Local Scholarships and Grants
a. Establishing an Account Code
b. Establishing A Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC)
c. Reconciliation
d. Booster Clubs/Foundations
e. Institutional Financial Aid Fund (3.5%)
1. Establishing An Account Code
2. Collecting 3.5% from Tuition
3. Note of Caution concerning the Institutional Financial Aid Fund
40. Use of Fund 846 to Record Scholarships and Fellowships
a. Recording State Allocated Financial Aid Funds
b. Recording Aid From Grant/Contracts Such as PELL/SEOG/WorkFirst
c. Alternate coding if the Grant/Contract is to be Maintaned in Fund 145
50. Fee Calculation
10. Fee Calculation
a. Fee Calculation Components
b. What registration transactions update Customer Accounts?
c. Questions to ask when the charges in Customer Accounts are not correct:
d. How can I update tuition and fees after a student has registered?
e. Refund Processing Facts
f. Fee Calculation Errors
g. Common Fee Calculation Errors
20. Fee Pay Status
a. How does Fee Calculation use fee pay status codes and in what order?
30. Tuition Calculation Table (BM1010)
a. College controlled sections of the Tuition Calculation Table Screen
b. Tuition Calculation Table List Function
c. FEE PAY STATUS (First Section of Tuition Calculation Table)
d. Data Elements of the Tuition Calculation Table (Second Section)
1. BM1010 - Standard Section
2. BM1010 - Standard Fee Limit
3. BM1010 - Standard Limit Type
4. BM1010 - Standard Over Limit Fee Code
5. BM1010 - Waiver
6. BM1010 - FAPC Code
7. BM1010 - Waiver Calculation Ind
e. SUPPLEMENTAL FEES (Third Section)
f. SUPPLEMENTAL TUITION (Fourth Section)
40. The Fee Code Table (BM1001)
a. Fee Codes reserved for and defined by CIS/SBCTC
b. Fee Code Table Fields Affecting Fee Calculation
c. Fee Code Table Overrides
50. Financial Aid Program Code (FAPC) Table (BM1002)
a. Standard Fee Calculation Waiver Coding
b. The Waiver Report (BM1719J)
c. How is the Revenue Indicator field used?
d. Options for scheduling the Waiver Report (BM1719)
60. FMS/AFRS Interface
10. How is FMS data transferred to AFRS?
a. Major Crosswalk Differences
1. What are the types of “cross walks”?
b. Manual Adjusting Entries and Opening Entry Differences
c. Community and Technical Colleges’ presentation in CAFR
20. In-Process Reports
a. Vendor Payment Advance (VPA)
b. Payment to the State Treasurer
c. Treasury Funds and Treasury Cash
d. FMS GL 4310 to GL 71xx in AFRS
e. FMS Entry vs. Documents Processed by the Treasurer
f. Bank Account Analogy
g. FMS Reports used by SBCTC to create the In-Process Report
h. Illustrative Entry for Cash Receipts GL 7110
i. Illustrative Entry for Cash Disbursements GL 7120
j. Illustrative Entry for JVs GL 7140
k. VPA
l. Resolving In-Process Out of Balances
30. FMS Errors
a. Source of Error Reports
1. CR2353 – AFRS Not Reported
2. CR2355 – AFRS Extract Error List
b. Transaction Code 026 in Treasury Funds
c. Fixing FMS Errors
40. AFRS Rejections
10. AFRS Edits
60. Open Entry Differences
65. Vendor Payment Advance
10. Vendor Payment Advance Process
a. Legal References for VPA
b. How is the amount of the advance determined?
20. Accounting for VPA Expenditure Transactions
a. How is the original advance recorded?
b. How do I record payments that will be reimbursed through the VPA process?
1. Using the Invoice Screen to Make Vendor Payments
2. Using the Cost Transfer Screen for VPA Transactions
3. Using the General Accounting Transaction Screen for VPA Activity
30. VPA Activity Reports
a. Which report displays detailed vendor payment advance activity?
b. Where is VPA summary information by fund reported?
40. Monthly VPA Reimbursement Processes
a. How do I get reimbursed for vendor payment advance expenditures?
b. Receipting a Vendor Payment Advance Reimbursement
1. Job Group FG012M
2. Reversal of General Ledger 5150
50. Reconciling Vendor Payment Advance General Ledgers
a. The In-Process Report
b. Reconciling GL5150 Between Funds
c. Keeping GL1350 and GL5150 in Balance
60. Requesting Reimbursement for Capital Projects
a. Using TC002 to Record Capital Expenditures
b. Requesting Reimbursement from OST for Capital Expenditures
c. Illustrated Entries for Combined Expenditures
d. What can I do if I don’t want one day out of balance?
70. Tracking VPA during Fiscal Year closing?
a. Repayment of Initial Advance
1. Entry if Initial Advance Greater than the Final Month’s Expenditures.
2. Entry if Initial Advance Less than the Final Month’s Expenditures
b. How do I re-establish my advance for the new biennium?
70. Endowments/Foundations
10. To be provide
80. Year End
10. OFM Cut-Off procedure
15. FMS Cut-Off procedure
a. Phase I
b. Phase II
c. Phase III
d. Phase IV
1. Opening Entries
2. Close To Open.
3. Adjusting Entries
4. Checklist
5. Disclosure Forms
20. Deposits-In-Transit
a. Recording Deposit-in-Transit Entries Using Customer Accounts
1. Record Receipt of Deposit-in-Transit
2. Reversing the receivable and Deposit-in-Transit in the New Year
30. Manual Method of Processing Payables at Year End
a. Manual Method at Biennium Close
1. Fund Type 1
2. Fund Type 3
b. Manual Method at Fiscal Year Close
1. Fund Type 1 – Fund 001
2. Fund Type 1 – Capital Projects
3. Fund Type 3
4. Fund Type 2 and 4
35. Automated Method for Accruing Expenditures
a. Required Criteria for Using the Automated Accrual Process
b. Transaction Codes for Automated Accruals
c. Scheduling the Automated Accrual Process
40. Accrued Treasury Account Activity
a. How do I get reimbursed for payment of accrued Treasury account activity?
b. How do I track accrued expenditure activity for reimbursement?
45. Illustrative Entries for Expenditure Accruals
a. Local general funds(fund type 3), with an encumbrance.
b. Proprietary Funds
c. Treasury Operating Funds with an Encumbrance
d. Treasury Capital Funds with an Encumbrance
e. Handling the Daily Cash Out-of-Balance Condition
1. Option 1 for handling Daily Cash Out-of Balance
2. Option 2 for Handling Daily Cash Out-of Balance
50. The Closing Process for Receivables at Year End
a. Are amounts due for summer or fall quarter tuition receivables at June 30?
b. Transaction Codes Used for First Year of a Biennium
1. Fund Types 2, 3, 4, AND 5
2. Fund Type 1 (Single year appropriations in Fund 001)
3. Fund Type 1 (Biennial appropriations - Fund 057, 060, 253)
c. Transaction Codes Used for the Receivables to Offset Expenditures at Mid-Biennium
1. Fund Type 2 and 4
2. Fund Type 5
3. Fund Type 3
4. Fund Type 1 (Biennial appropriations - Fund 057)
5. Fund Type 1 (Single year appropriations in Fund 001)
d. Transaction Codes for revenue receivables at the end of a biennium
1. Fund Types 2, 3, 4, and 5
2. Fund Types 1
e. Transaction Codes for Expenditure Receivables at the End of a Biennium
1. Fund Type 2 and 4
2. Fund Type 5
3. Fund Type 3
4. Fund Type 1
55. NSF Checks:
a. NSF Check Example
b. Shortcut for Coding NSF Checks
60. Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
a. Is the allowance account coding the same for all fund types?
b. Allowance account coding samples by fund type
1. Fund Types 1, 3 and 5
2. Fund Type 4
65. Interagency receivables/payables
a. What are the deadlines for billing other state agencies?
b. When are invoices to SBCTC due?
c. What is the deadline for requesting equipment reimbursements from CIS?
d. What General Ledgers are used for interagency receivables and payables?
e. How do other agencies code receivables and payables to identify specific colleges within the system?
f. Reconciling with other agencies
g. What about receivable/payables between the colleges and with SBCTC?
h. State Agency Contact List
i. Interagency Accrual Illustrative Entries
1. Biennium Close
2. Fiscal Year Close
3. Estimated Billing's Received
j. Is additional tracking required for estimated accruals?
70. Interfund receivables/payables
a. Revenue/Expenditure Transfers 25th mo
1. Options for Recording the “Due From” Half of the Transaction
2. Options for Recording the “Due To” Half of the Transaction
b. How are treasury cash accruals reimbursed or remitted?
75. Investment Valuation
80. Inventory and the Closing Process
a. Entries to Adjust Inventory Balances
85. Negative Cash Balances
a. How do I address negative cash balances prior to closing?
b. What needs to be done in the new year?
90. Using SMART to Assist with Closing Process
a. Manual Adjusting Entries
1. How are manual adjusting entries coded?
2. What happens to manual adjusting entries in the new year?
3. Manual Entries at Fiscal Year-End
4. Manual Entries at Second Year of Biennium
5. Manual Entries Not Affected by Year of Biennium
b. Opening Entries – How Manual Adjusting Entries are Recorded in the New Year
1. Transcodes for Opening Entry Adjustments
2. Differences Between Transaction Codes S and R
c. Using SMART to Report Note Disclosures
95. The FMS Close Open Process
a. What FMS processes are involved in the Close/Open process?
1. Process One
2. Process Two
b. Can I test the close/open process before actual closing?
c. Open Entry Differences
1. Opening Differences Resulting from Manual Adjusting Entries
2. Opening Differences Caused by Sub Ledger/GL Differences
3. How do I check opening general ledger balances for differences?
60 Administrative Procedures
10. Auditing
10. State Audit
a. Authority
b. What are the state auditor’s responsibilities?
c. What are the general procedures required to prepare for an audit by SAO?
d. Audit Notification and Expectation of actual Audit Activities
e. Communicating the Audit Results
f. Responding to Audit Issues
20. Federal Audits
a. Federal Funding
30. SBCTC Operations Reviews
a. What does a operations review consist of?
20. Banking
10. Positive Pay
a. Positive Pay
20. Acquiring Banking Services
a. College Authority to Contract for Banking Services
b. Sample Checklist for Banking RFP
30. E-Commerce
a. E-Commerce
40. Internal Control
10. To be provided
50. Meals and Refreshments
10. To be provided
55. Travel
10. To be provided
60. General Ledger Monitoring
10. To be provided
70. Risk Management
10. Services
a. Services Provided by Division of Risk Management
20. Insurance
a. Liability
b. Commercial Carriers
30. Tort Claims
a. What information is required when filing a claim?
b. Requirement for Reporting Serious Incidents
40. College Responsibility for Risk Management
80. Service Contracts
10. Personal and Purchased Services Contracts
90. Records
10. State Board Role
20. College Role
70 Reporting
10. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS)
10. Background/General Information
a. How do I submit IPEDS financial data?
b. What resources are available for gathering and reporting IPEDS data?
c. How can I access the IPEDS data for research purposes?
20. Tax Reporting
10. IRS 1098-T
a. What is IRS 1098?
20. IRS 1099-MISC
a. What is IRS 1099-MISC?
30. Sales and Use Tax, B&O Tax
a. What is sales tax?
b. What is use tax?
c. Calculating Use Tax
d. Sales and Use Tax Exemptions
e. Sales and Use Tax Rates
f. When do colleges collect retail sales tax?
g. Sales Tax collection and remittance procedures: College Bookstore Example
h. Filing the State DOR Excise (sales tax) Return
1. FMS reports used as a basis for excise tax returns
i. Relieving the Liability/FMS Entry
1. Other college operations requiring sales tax collection.
j. When do I have a use tax liability?
k. Recording Use Tax liability
1. When do I remit use taxes?
2. FMS sales/use tax table maintenance
40. Leasehold Excise Tax
a. What is leasehold excise tax?
50. Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)
a. What is unrelated business income tax?
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Introduction
1.1
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Purpose of Manual
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System Overview
10.10
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College administrative systems and the Center for Information Services (CIS)
10.10.10
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Administrative Systems
2006-03-02
10.10.10.a
How does college data get reported to the state?
10.10.10.b
Do colleges have options recording and classifying accounting information?
10.10.10.c
Where can I find state accounting policies?
10.10.20
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How job scheduling controls the systems.
2004-11-30
10.10.20.a
Schedule Job Groups Screen
10.10.20.b
Schedule Jobs Screen
10.10.20.c
Inquire About Scheduled Jobs
10.10.20.d
Prioritize Today’s Schedule
10.10.20.e
Maintain Report Formatting Defaults
10.10.20.f
Maintain Parameter Defaults
10.10.20.g
The Job Group Definition Screen
10.10.20.h
What are valid statuses for entering jobs or job groups?
10.10.20.i
Coordination of scheduled jobs.
10.10.30
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What is the purpose of application security?
2004-11-30
10.10.30.a
What are the responsibilities of the application security manager?
10.10.30.b
System Menu Screen (ZX9000)
10.10.30.c
Which screens are used to add a new user to the system?
10.10.30.d
User-Terminal Maintenance Screen (ZX0203)
10.10.30.e
Available Application Security Reports
10.10.30.f
What is the database for Application Security?
10.10.40
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Database Reports
2004-11-30
10.10.40.a
What software is used to produce Reports?
10.10.40.b
Procedures created using DataExpress can:
10.10.40.c
When running a procedure, the extracted report data can be directed to:
10.10.40.d
Downloading Extracted Report Data
10.10.50
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Archival Purge Process
2004-11-30
10.10.50.a
Types of batch processes
10.10.50.b
Annual Subledger Purge Process
10.10.50.c
Accounts Payable Purge Process
10.10.50.d
Control Tables
10.10.50.e
Customer Accounts Archival Process
10.10.50.f
Customer Accounts Purge Process
10.10.50.g
Cashiering POS Purge
10.10.60
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Online Storage Management Screen (ZX0050)
2004-11-30
10.10.60.a
What are the fields on the online storage management screen used for?
10.10.70
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System Interfaces with SMS, PPMS, MIS
2004-11-30
10.10.70.a
How does the student management systems interface with the financial management system?
10.10.70.a.1
Fee Calculation Process
10.10.70.a.2
Where can I get the results of the fee calculation process?
10.10.70.a.3
What are tuition calculations based upon?
10.10.70.a.4
What is a fee pay status?
10.10.70.a.5
What are tuition and fees based upon?
10.10.70.a.6
How is the fee code determined?
10.10.70.a.7
Additional fee codes
10.10.70.a.8
Where does fee calculation interface to FMS?
10.10.70.a.9
Refunding
10.10.70.a.10
Overriding refund percentiles
10.10.70.a.11
When are student records updated by fee calculation?
10.10.70.b
MIS - SBCTC's Management Information System
10.10.70.b.1
What is MIS reporting?
10.10.70.b.2
MIS Calendar
10.10.70.b.3
What does SBCTC do with the MIS data?
10.10.70.b.4
Why must class data be verified?
10.10.70.c
PPMS/FMS Interface
10.10.70.c.1
Payroll Banking: The Payroll Personnel Management System
10.10.70.c.2
How is money transferred into the central payroll account?
10.10.70.c.3
How do I verify individual payroll dollars to be transferred?
10.10.70.c.4
Payroll Accounting Options
10.10.70.c.5
Benefit Costs
10.10.70.c.6
FMS transaction codes used in payroll processing
10.10.70.c.7
FMS batch id's for payroll
10.10.70.c.8
FMS FAPC codes for payroll
10.10.70.c.9
Determining the FMS year/quarter (YRQ) of the Financial Aid Earnings
10.10.70.c.10
FMS Payroll Clearing and Liability Account (FUND 790)
10.10.70.c.11
Reconciling the Payroll Clearing Account
10.10.70.c.12
FMS Payroll Prepaid Account
10.10.70.c.13
What is the FMS batch post period?
10.10.70.c.14
When is the FMS batch post period?
10.10.70.c.15
What is the FMS batch date?
10.10.70.c.16
Payroll EFT Accounting
10.20
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Fund Accounting
10.20.10
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Funds
2003-08-15
10.20.10.a
What is a fund?
10.20.20
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Fund Categories
2011-12-28
10.20.20.a
Governmental Funds
10.20.20.a.1
General Funds
10.20.20.a.2
Special Revenue Funds
10.20.20.a.3
Debt Service Funds
10.20.20.a.4
Capital Projects Funds
10.20.20.a.5
Permanent Funds
10.20.20.b
Proprietary Funds
10.20.20.b.1
Enterprise Funds
10.20.20.b.2
Internal Service Funds
10.20.20.c
Fiduciary Funds
10.20.20.c.1
Pension (and other employee benefit) Trust Funds
10.20.20.c.2
Investment Trust Funds
10.20.20.c.3
Private-Purpose Trust Funds
10.20.20.c.4
Agency Funds
10.20.20.d
Subsidiary Accounts
10.20.20.d.1
The General Capital Assets Subsidiary Account
10.20.20.d.2
The General Long Term Obligations Subsidiary Account
10.20.30
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Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting
2003-08-15
10.20.30.a
What is measurement focus?
10.20.30.a.1
What is meant by “flow of economic resources focus”?
10.20.30.a.2
What is meant by “flow of current financial resources focus”?
10.20.30.b
What is basis of accounting?
10.20.30.b.1
Accrual Basis
10.20.30.b.2
Modified Accrual Basis
10.20.30.c
Measurement Focus and Basis of Accounting by Fund Type
10.20.30.c.1
Governmental Funds
10.20.30.c.2
Proprietary funds
10.20.30.c.3
Fiduciary funds
10.20.30.d
Fund Basis Matrix
10.20.40
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Application of Fund Accounting using FMS
2011-12-28
10.20.40.a
Budgeted or Nonbudgeted Funds
10.20.40.b
Fund Type Codes
10.20.40.b.1
FMS Type 1
10.20.40.b.2
FMS Type 2
10.20.40.b.3
FMS Type 3