The fiscal year for all departments of State Government closes on the thirtieth day of June (CGS, Sec. 4-35).
It is important that you review and closely follow the year-end instructions. If you have any questions, please refer to the list of contacts at the end of these instructions.
You are responsible for distributing these instructions to the appropriate staff within your agency. It is important that all dates and deadlines be observed, as there will be no exceptions to these instructions.
When the term "budgeted funds" is used in these instructions, it refers exclusively to the following funds:
11000 General Fund
12001 Transportation Fund
12003 Banking Fund
12004 Insurance Fund
12006 Consumer Counsel/DPUC Fund
12007 Workers Compensation Fund
12009 Mashantucket Pequot & Mohegan Fund
12010 Soldiers Sailors and Marines Fund
12013 Regional Market Operations Fund
12014 Criminal Injuries Compensation Fund
Maintaining or Revising Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Chartfield and Budget
Structure in Fiscal Year 2011
Any changes (addition or inactivation of values) required to your present
financial chartfield structure for Fiscal Year 2011 should be submitted using
the Core-CT chartfield maintenance form (http://www.core-ct.state.ct.us/dvd/chartfield.htm)
no later than Friday, April 30, 2010. Requests for budget structure changes
should also be submitted to the attention of John Clark at Office of the State
Comptroller by that date.
Please keep in mind that the following actions must be finalized by April 30, 2010:
Budget reference 2011 will become an active value on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 with an effective date of June 4, 2010.
** Reminder: Speedcharts, speedtypes and distribution codes
referencing budgeted funds will be automatically updated with the Budget
Reference for the new fiscal year. Please verify that this has occurred. If you
are using speed charts, speed types or distribution codes for a non-budgeted
fund, with a budget reference selected, you must change that budget reference to
2011 when the new budget reference should be used in the new fiscal year.
The pay period beginning on June 4, 2010 is the first payroll processed in Fiscal Year 2011. All fiscal year budget references must be effective on June 4, 2010.
No later than Monday, May 10, 2010 agencies must notify the Office of Policy and Management of all appropriations within budgeted funds that qualify for continuance to Fiscal Year 2011.
In general:
Lapsing Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations receiving new funding in Fiscal Year 2011
No appropriation balances in budgeted funds will be brought forward to the new-year appropriation. Unliquidated encumbrances from Fiscal Year 2010 will be recommitted against the new-year appropriation once PO Roll-Over is complete. Any expenditure posted after June 30, 2010 will be charged against the new-year appropriation.
Continuing Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations
All unexpended balances (unliquidated encumbrances, unencumbered, unallotted) will be brought forward to the new-year appropriation early in Fiscal Year 2011 (after adjustments and budget balances are verified). Unliquidated encumbrances will be automatically recommitted against the new-year appropriation once the rolled POs have passed budget checking. Expenditures posted after June 30, 2010 will be recorded as new-year expenditures.
All continuing appropriations such as Federal and Other Grants or Insurance Recoveries should be balanced and closed by June 30, 2010 wherever possible.
Lapsing appropriations not renewed with a Fiscal Year 2011 appropriation (one month carry-forward)
These appropriations may be extended until 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 30, 2010 for the purpose of liquidating obligations properly incurred in Fiscal Year 2010 (the old year). The unliquidated encumbrance balance will be automatically brought forward to Fiscal Year 2011. On July 30, the unliquidated balance will be lapsed.
First quarter Fiscal Year 2011 allotments
Please submit your first quarter allotments to OPM leaving sufficient time to
distribute the allotment and to ensure receipt by the Comptroller's Office no
later than June 30, 2010.
The Billing Module will close on June 30, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. for Fiscal Year
2010 processing. Billing for Fiscal Year 2011 will open on Thursday, July 1,
2010. Exceptions are for the Internal Service Fund (ISF) Business Units (DASS1,
DOCS1 and ITDS1). Billing for the ISF Business Units will close on Wednesday,
July 7, 2010 after the 10 a.m. Batch, for Fiscal Year 2010 processing. Fiscal
Year 2011 processing for the ISF Business Units will open on Thursday, July 8,
2010.
The AR Module will close for all Business Units on Wednesday, July 7, 2010
after the 10 a.m. Batch, for Fiscal Year 2010 processing. This means that all
Deposits and Payments must be completed by the close of business on Tuesday,
July 6, 2010. On Thursday, July 8, 2010, AR will open for all Business Units for
Fiscal Year 2011 processing. All Maintenance Worksheets must be completed and be
set to Batch Standard by Monday, June 28, 2010. If they are not completed by
then, they must be deleted by the agency. Any Inter-Agency Payment Worksheets
must be completed by the close of business on Monday, June 28, 2010.
Please keep in mind that all monies deposited prior to July 1, 2010 are
Fiscal Year 2010 (old year) receipts. All monies deposited on or after July 1,
2010 are Fiscal Year 2011 (new year) receipts. The controlling factor is NOT the
check date, but rather, the date that the deposit is recorded at the bank. In
Core-CT, this will show as the Accounting Date on the deposit. The received and
entered date may be July 1 or later, but if the Accounting Date is prior to July
1, this would be an old year deposit and must be completed. Any deposit with an
Accounting Date of July 1, 2010 or later cannot be processed until the AR Module
is open for Fiscal Year 2011.
Every effort should be made to process Fiscal Year 2010 deposits (either Direct Journal or Apply Payment to an Open AR Item) prior to Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Any outstanding Fiscal Year 2010 deposit left unprocessed after the close of business on Tuesday, July 6, will be directly journalled to funds awaiting distribution (pending receipts) by the Comptroller's Office. Agencies will be responsible for modifying these entries to the proper coding with a GL spreadsheet or online journal, no later than Friday, July 9, 2010.
Also, any Fiscal Year 2010 Refund of Expenditure Open Item coded to Budgeted
Funds will be automatically updated to general revenue for Fiscal Year 2011.
This ensures that budgets are not increased in the new fiscal year.
On Account (OA Entry Type) Payments
All on account (OA) open item receipts related to Fiscal Year 2010 MUST BE CLOSED OUT BY THE END OF BUSINESS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 2010. In order to ensure that OA payments are classified to the correct Fund/SID/Accounts, agencies must close out these OA items by creating a bill in the Billing module using the Funds Awaiting Distribution coding and matching it to the OA with a Maintenance Worksheet. OA items not closed by agencies on or before Thursday, June 24, 2010 will be closed by the Comptroller's Office in order to properly classify the payment as a revenue or refund of expenditure in Fiscal Year 2010. At that point, agencies run the risk of having OA items classified to a Fund/SID/Account not of their choosing. Agencies will be responsible for modifying these entries to the proper coding with a spreadsheet or online journal no later than Friday, July 9, 2010.
Agencies shall determine their own cut off dates for the issuance of requisitions sourced to purchase orders, the creation of new purchase orders and the issuance of change orders, within the following parameters:
Purchase Orders
Agencies must close POs on a monthly basis at the beginning of each fiscal year and more frequently as the end of the fiscal year approaches. Agencies must continue to close all POs that should not roll into fiscal year 2011 through 12:00 p.m. on June 30, 2010.
Do not reduce the PO amounts below what has been ordered through June 30, 2010.
POs that are left in a Business Unit that have a positive remaining balance and have the PO status of Dispatched and a Budget status of Valid will be rolled. It is the agency's responsibility to clean up POs that do not qualify to roll, prior to the June 30 deadline.
Core-CT will be adjusting the close days as we approach the end of the fiscal year as follows:
Should an agency desire to have their close days moved downwards prior to the dates listed, they must e-mail their request to the Purchasing Team. Please address the email as follows: In the subject line "Close Days" in the body include your business unit(s) (example: "DASM1"). Please include your contact information: Name, e-mail address and valid telephone number including area code. Also, please let us know what you would like the days set to and for how long. This e-mail should be addressed to all 3 members of the Purchasing team: Noreen.Camara@ct.gov, Amanda.Starbala@ct.gov, and Joann.Bellamo@ct.gov.
Requisitions
To assist in returning monies pre-encumbered by a requisition the Core-CT weekly process of requisition reconciliation will be run on Fridays and an additional run will been added on Tuesdays, beginning April 6, 2010. Requisition close will run on a nightly basis, Monday through Friday, beginning June 1, 2010.
Access for Requesters, Requisition Amount Approvers 1, 2, 3, and 4, Budget Approvers, and Purchasing Approvers, in addition access to the Core-10 and ITD and DAS Bid functionality will be removed: CT Multi-Requester, CT ITD Approvers 1- 4, CT Req Bid Contract Creator, CT DAS Approver 1, CT F A Adhoc Approver, CT WF Req Adhoc Approver, and CT Catalog Viewer will be removed at close of business on June 25, 2010.
The batch process for requisition sourcing will be discontinued after the scheduled nightly run on June 25, 2010. Future dated requisitions must not be created in Core-CT.
Agencies should close all requisitions that did not source to a PO on or
before June 25, 2010 after the last nightly batch run (the requisition status
are as follows; approved, pending approval, canceled, denied, or open). You have
until 12:00 p.m. on June 30, 2010 to close these requisitions. If an agency is
currently using an open requisition as a template, the requisition must be saved
as a template or it should be closed. Templates will not be affected by the PO
roll.
The Core-CT team will update the budget date and the accounting date on the
requisition templates.
PO Roll Process:
In order for a purchase order to qualify for PO Roll, encumbered funds must remain on the PO line(s), the PO status must be Dispatched, the Budget status must be Valid, and the Line(s) must not be in a Fully Matched status.
The Core-CT team will begin the PO Roll process for all qualifying POs on Thursday, July 1, 2010. Should the Core-CT team encounter a problem with a PO that was left in an agency's business unit to roll or the PO does not roll due a technical error, the Core-CT team will attempt to close that PO. POs that were closed by the Core-CT team will be posted on the Core-CT website for agencies to recreate in the 2011 fiscal year.
Core-CT will begin to roll POs on the morning of July 1, 2010 and continue to roll through July 4, 2010.
User access to the Purchasing and Requisition Modules will be re-established
on Tuesday, July 6, 2010. In the event that the PO Roll is not completed, a
Daily Mail will be issued on the morning of July 6th indicating the estimated
time frame remaining for the continued lock out.
New-Year Purchasing Transactions
Agencies may begin creating new fiscal year Requisitions and POs on Tuesday,
July 6, 2010. Agencies should not approve Requisitions or POs until all of the
budgets are in place.
Continuing Funds will not be available until Monday, July 19, 2010.
Vouchers
New-year vouchers can be entered into Core-CT when all affected budgets are in place - July 1 at the earliest. Continuing funds will be available July 19, 2010 at the earliest. Ensure that required agency budgets are also available.
Remember to pay special attention to the entry of Receipt Date in the new
year. On vouchers for Goods and Services received in the prior year, the agency
must over-write the current date that is defaulted and enter the actual receipt
date. Again, the agencies are also reminded not to combine invoices and urged to
pay for items received in the old year separately from items received in the new
year.
Any questions regarding the accounting for adjustment or reversal vouchers should be directed to the General Accounting contacts listed on the last page of this memorandum or Elaine Pelletier in the Accounts Payable Division.
Claims Authorization Form (CO-512)
Form CO-512 is available for downloading from the Office of the Comptroller's website at http://osc.ct.gov/agencies/forms/index.html/. The original hard-copy form must be completed and forwarded to the Comptroller's Office, Accounts Payable Division, 55 Elm Street, Hartford, CT 06106 Attention: Linda Arn by Friday, June 11, 2010.
The CO-512 must contain the names of all agency personnel with the final approver roles listed below. The Encumbrance or Expenditure box must be checked based on their authorization. Any forms with both boxes checked for one individual will be returned to the agency for segregation of duties.
Final Approver Roles -
Commitment Roles:
Expenditure Roles:
All information must be completed in the designated contact section.
The 'new' box on the CO-512 form should only be checked off at the beginning of each fiscal year. Any changes thereafter must be reflected by checking the 'update' box. The 'effective date' must be the same date as reflected on the Core-CT Application Security Request Form CO-1092. An updated CO-512 form must be submitted at that time.
When submitting an updated CO-512 form, all final approvers must be listed. This updated form will supersede all previously submitted forms. Therefore, all employees with final approver roles must be listed on the updated form.
The signature of the agency head (Commissioner, Executive Director, etc.) must appear on all Claims Authorization Forms to certify that the listed personnel are authorized to encumber or expend funds on their behalf. An updated CO-512 form must be submitted when there is a new agency head.
Encumbrance and expenditure documents may not be processed for the new fiscal year if the authorization form is not received by June 11, 2010.
The bi-weekly pay period Friday, May 21, 2010 through Thursday, June 3, 2010
scheduled for payment on Friday, June 18, 2010 is the final payroll charged to
appropriations for Fiscal Year 2010.
Semi-monthly and any payrolls which will be paid June 30, 2010 will also be
charged to Fiscal Year 2010 appropriations.
Payroll checks dated in July will be charged to Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations.
Spreadsheet or Online journal entry corrections for Fiscal Year 2010 may be submitted until Friday, July 9, 2010. After that date, no additional corrections will be accepted to Fiscal Year 2010 transactions.
Detailed instructions concerning spreadsheet or online GL journal payroll corrections are available on the Core-CT web site under General Ledger Job Aids. Both fringe benefit and non-fringe benefit payroll corrections may be processed via the spreadsheet journal process.
There are also detailed instructions on spreadsheet journal entries available on the Core-CT web site under General Ledger Job Aids.
General Ledger for Fiscal Year 2010 will close on Thursday, July 15, 2010
starting at 12:00 p.m. The Core-CT system will not be available until Monday,
July 19, 2010.
As in prior years, a detailed GAAP closing package will be distributed prior to fiscal year end. The purpose of the GAAP closing, which is separate from the legal closing outlined above, is to allow the Comptroller to report in conformance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. This is required, in part, for the state to maintain a favorable bond rating.
As in the past, in conjunction with the GAAP closing package, agencies will be requested to provide a Schedule of Federal Financial Assistance. This report is critical to the Single Audit Report prepared by the Auditors of Public Accounts. A set of detailed instructions will be issued to each agency that receives federal financial assistance.
The Asset Management Fiscal Year 2010 Open Accounting Period will close on Wednesday July 14, 2010.
Agencies must process all Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Adds, Adjustments, Retirements/Reinstatements, Re-categorizations, and Transfers by close of business Tuesday, July 13, 2010. After that date, these transaction types will be booked as Fiscal Year 2011 transactions.
Remember that Fiscal Year 2010 transactions recorded in July, up to and including July 13, 2010, must reflect a June 2010 Accounting Date. This will ensure that these transactions will be included in FY 2010 Financial Reports and Statements.
Transaction Loader items for Fiscal Year 2010, that have not been loaded by
close of business on Tuesday July 13, 2010, will be changed to error status. The
affected assets will have to be entered in Basic Add with all pertinent
purchasing, receiving, and vouchering information. Regular review of Transaction
Loader is recommended to help minimize year end maintenance.
Asset Management and Inventory Modules (CO-59)
The Asset Management/Inventory Report/GAAP Reporting Form, CO-59 is an annual report of all capitalized real and personal property owned by each state agency. This report must be submitted by October 1, 2010 and must reflect the sum total of the physical inventory as of June 30, 2010. All Executive Branch agencies must use the Core-CT Asset Management Module to complete the information requested on the CO-59. Agencies using the Inventory Module or a separate inventory system are required to report their stores and supplies inventory on the CO-59.
Agencies not using the Core-CT Asset Management module are still required to report their assets on the CO-59 using their asset management systems.
Executive Branch agencies are expected to use the Asset Management and Inventory queries below to complete the CO-59 form for Fiscal Year 2010. If the values recorded on the CO-59 do not reconcile with Core-CT, the agency must provide a written explanation of the discrepancy in an attachment.
Asset Management Queries
CT_CORE_FIN_AM_COST_POS - Select this query to calculate the positive cost of
assets for a range of accounting dates for the CO-59 report.
CT_CORE_FIN_AM_CO59_POS_DETAIL - Select this query for detail information to
support the above query.
CT_CORE_FIN_AM_COST_NEG - Select this query to calculate the negative cost of
assets for a range of accounting dates for the CO-59.
CT_CORE_FIN_AM_CO59_NEG_DETAIL - Select this query for detail information to
support the above query.
Inventory Queries (Stores and Supplies) for those agencies that use the
Inventory Module
CT_CORE_FIN_IN_CO_59_RCV - Select this query to calculate the items in inventory
for a range of transaction dates for the CO-59.
CT_CORE_FIN_IN_CO_59_DEP - Select this query to calculate the depletions of
items in inventory for a range of transaction dates for the CO-59.
Asset Management Report
AMAS2000 - Cost Activity Detail Report - Select this report to assist with the
physical inventory reconciliation. The path for this report is: Asset
Management>Financial Reports>Cost and Depreciation>Cost Activity Report. The
final report cannot be run until after July 15, 2010.
The CO-59 form is now available for reporting assets by downloading it from the OSC website at http://osc.ct.gov/agencies/forms/index.html/.
The completed CO-59 should be forwarded to the Comptroller's Office, Fiscal
Policy Division, 55 Elm Street, Hartford, CT 06106 Attn: Michael Carragher.
Questions regarding the completion of the CO-59 should be directed to:
OSC.Assets@po.state.ct.us
If you have any questions, please contact the following:
| EVENT | Due Date |
|---|---|
| e-Pro - Requisition Reconciliation - Tuesdays and Fridays | 4/6/10 |
| PO Close days - change from 30 to 15 | 4/9/10 |
| Chartfield changes for FY 2011 including Payroll Combinations - adds/deletes | 4/30/10 |
| Budget Structure changes due by | 4/30/10 |
| Budget Reference Consolidation changes due by | 4/30/10 |
| PO Close days - change from 15 to 5 | 4/30/10 |
| Request continuation of budgeted funds to OPM | 5/10/10 |
| PO Close days - change from 5 to 0 (zero) | 5/28/10 |
| First quarter allotment requests due to OPM - obtain due date from your budget analyst. | |
| e-Pro Requisition Recon - to be run nightly starting | 6/1/10 |
| FY 2011 combo codes - effective | 6/4/10 |
| AP - Claims Authorization forms (CO-512) due by 5:00 p.m. | 6/11/10 |
| AP - last date to pay Inter-agency bills | 6/11/10 |
| AP - Payment Cancellation forms (CO-790) due by 5:00 p.m. | 6/11/10 |
| Payroll - last bi-weekly payroll check date posted to FY 2010 | 6/18/10 |
| A/R - Close all On Account (OA) payments | 6/24/10 |
| AP - last night for interfaced vouchers | 6/25/10 |
| Inactivating C/Fs - close A/R items | 6/25/10 |
| A/R - last date to apply Inter-agency payments | 6/28/10 |
| AP - last day for vouchers to be paid (approved by 9:00 a.m.) | 6/29/10 |
| AP - Delete Unposted Vchrs (except for JVs and ZPC vchrs) after State Pay Cycle | 6/29/10 |
| e-Pro - last requisition entered by close of business | 6/25/10 |
| e-Pro - last IDT/DAS Bid entered by noon - access will be removed at 12:00 p.m. | 6/25/10 |
| AP - Adjs and Reversals vouchers for ZPC - approved before 3:00 p.m. | 6/29/10 |
| AP - Last Zero-Dollar Pay Cycle by 9:00 a.m. | 6/30/10 |
| First quarter allotments from OPM to OSC | 6/30/10 |
| PO - Close POs that are not rolling by 12:00 p.m. | 6/30/10 |
| ePro - Close requisitions by 12:00 p.m. | 6/30/10 |
| Balance Federal and other grants and Insurance Recoveries by | 6/30/10 |
| Billing module closed at 3:00 p.m.(except ISF units) | 6/30/10 |
| AP - module closed at 12:00 p.m. | 6/30/10 |
| Payroll - last semi-monthly payroll check date posted to FY 2010 | 6/30/10 |
| GL - balance sheet accounts rolled | 7/1/10 |
| PO Roll from 7/1/10 through | 7/4/10 |
| Billing module opened for new FY transactions | 7/1/10 |
| Payroll - first payroll check date posted to FY 2011 | 7/2/10 |
| A/R - module closed at 12:00 p.m. | 7/7/10 |
| Billing module closed for Internal Service Fund units after the 10:00 a.m. batch | 7/7/10 |
| PO and e-Pro modules - access restored | 7/6/10 |
| A/R - module opened for new FY transactions | 7/8/10 |
| GL - last date for FY 2010 SSJs or Online Journal Entries | 7/9/10 |
| AM - last transaction date for FY 2010 assets | 7/13/10 |
| AM - close FY 2010 | 7/14/10 |
| Core-CT will be unavailable from 12:00 p.m. | 7/15/10 |
| Continued Funds available | 7/19/10 |
| Lapsing appropriations not renewed in FY 2011, lapsed | 7/30/10 |
| AM - AM/Inventory Report / GAAP Reporting form (CO-59) | 10/1/10 |
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