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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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infoAdvantage User Group Meeting

The GAO will be hosting an infoAdvantage User Group meeting on October 29, 2019 from 1-3 pm in ADOA Conference room 300.

 

SAAM Additions, Updates, and Drafts Effective October 21, 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.

Travelers' Responsibilities

New Vendor/Customer Creation and Modification document requirements

Beginning 11/4/19, the GAO will begin rejecting VCCD1, VCMD1 documents and GAO ACH Setup Forms that do not have required fields completed and/or entered. A couple of the required changes are noted below.

AFISBC Budgetary Control

Chart of Account Elements for HRIS Integration

Create and Update a User with UDOC

Change to ITI and ITA Type Documents

With the 3.11 upgrade, the Period on the Header of the ITI type document copies over to the ITA type document but is not hard coded and can be changed.

When the ITA document is created, if the Period of the ITI is copied over and the Period has been closed, when the ITA agency validates the document, they receive this error message: Accounting Period closed - transaction not allowed. (A1598). The ITA agency can blank out the Period field on the Header and validate the document. The document will post to the current period.

Process an Internal Exchange Document (ITI/ITA)