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Acct 505 Course Project

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In addition to meeting the original objectives mentioned in the Executive Summary, Treasury’s collaboration with Comptroller Operations, Office of the Budget, helped to: 1. Convert 83 payment files across 22 agencies to conform to standard account code structure and SAP/PeopleSoft readable format. 2. Convert 77 legacy systems voucher transmittals, which were mostly paper transmittals, into standard electronic transaction processes. 3. Eliminate intermediate programs used to load agency files into SAP, thereby eliminating the ongoing need to support .Net and Progress applications. 4. Standardize the file transfer process across agencies and ensure they have the ability to stop any payment requests they deem invalid prior to transmission to either SAP or Treasury’s PeopleSoft system. Benefits to Treasury: …show more content…

By standardizing on 8.5” x 11” check stock, the project helped to eliminate 14” checks, which are more expensive and difficult to handle during the print process. Other Benefits: 1. More secured transactions; data “at rest” and “in transit” is encrypted, unlike the previous mainframe system. 2. Segregation of duties internal to Treasury as well as to all partner agencies. 3. Better citizen services, since agencies can view payment status real-time. 4. More reliability and better disaster recovery options. The Treasury mainframe was obsolete, limiting DR options. 5. Accounting for investments more closely aligns with Generally Accepted Accounting Standards by using asset accounts. The legacy mainframe considered investment purchases as expenditures and investment sales as revenue. 6. Increased transparency and accountability because each transaction in the system identifies User IDs that entered the transaction. 7. Improved visibility and auditability of transactions because each expenditure is posted to the system with its own unique identifying transaction number. 8. Less manual transaction entry of transactions, reducing duplicative keypunching

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