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Welcome to the Arizona General Accounting Office (GAO)

The General Accounting Office (GAO) is responsible for establishing Statewide accounting policies and procedures, managing the Arizona Financial Information System (AFIS), administering the Statewide Payroll through the Human Resources Information Solution (HRIS), preparing the Statewide Financial Reports, and providing technical assistance and other management advisory services.

Mission Statement

To provide State and Federal agencies, the general public, and other interested public or private entities with accurate and timely financial services, management information, and technical assistance while ensuring compliance with related statutes and rules; to maintain and improve the Statewide automated financial systems; and to provide for the safeguarding of State assets.

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Earned Federal Funds and Indirect Cost Reimbursements

Employee Travel Card (ETC): Employee Responsibilities

SAAM Additions, Updates, and Drafts Effective June 24, 2019

New or updated Sections, if any, of the State of Arizona Accounting Manual (SAAM) listed below have been posted to https://gao.az.gov/publications/saam.

Changes contained in updated SAAM sections can easily be identified using the instructions contained in SAAM 0007.

infoAdvantage availability

infoAdvantage will not be available beginning at noon for about 15 minutes.  When the application is back online, please be patient as there are a high number of users attempting to run reports today. The high volume may cause temporary errors when accessing reports. If you receive an error, please attempt to run the report later in the day.

InfoAdvantage available

InfoAdvantage has been upgraded to Business Objects 4.2, sp2 and is now available. 

End users should be aware of the following important points:

The Position Conversion process was completed in the HRIS Production environment during the weekend of 6/22/2019 – 6/23/2019

The Position Conversion process was completed in the HRIS Production environment during the weekend of 6/22/2019 – 6/23/2019.  The General Accounting Office (GAO) updated the subaccount on active Positions (XP02/ZP02) from 2019 to 2020.  During the conversion process, a number of Positions were not updated due to various errors.  Additional communication, including the necessary resolution process, has been distributed to Payroll and/or Human Resources staff at each of the impacted agencies.  Please ensure all errors associated with filled Positions are corrected and the labor distribution

HRIS will be unavailable for update the following dates: June 21, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. to June 24, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.

To allow the General Accounting Office (GAO) to perform the Position Conversion process, HRIS is scheduled to be unavailable for update from June 21, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. to June 24, 2019 at 6:00 a.m.  During the Position Conversion process, the GAO will update the sub-account on all active Positions (form XP02/ZP02) from 2019 to 2020.  The GAO will also update labor distribution elements on Positions (form XP02/ZP02) via mass upload, for agencies who have submitted a request.

Federal Closing Package Quick Reference Guide

Update on Internal Transaction Agreement (ITA) documents processing in AFIS

Internal Transaction Agreement (ITA) processing in AFIS with the “Action Not Authorized” error was resolved.