State of Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller - Fiscal Year-End Instructions 96-1

May 2, 1997

FISCAL YEAR-END INSTRUCTIONS NO 97-01

To:	All State Agencies
Attention:	Chief Fiscal Officer or Business Manager
Subject:	General Information

The fiscal year for all departments of State Government shall end the thirtieth day of June (Sec. 4-35).
It is important that you study and closely follow all of the fiscal year-end instructions. If you have any questions, please call the following:

Accounting	- Robert Krueger, 702-3380
Deposits	- Comptroller Requirements, Karen Hurst 702-3381
	- Treasurer Requirements, Joseph Higgins 702-3110
Accounts Payable	- Douglas Vallee, Director, Accounts Payable Division, Comptroller, 702-3424 and for specific procedural questions, see memo 97-4 for telephone numbers.
Payrolls	- Gary Reardon, Director, Payroll Services Division, Comptroller, 702-3445

The following additional year-end instructions are being issued. Call Accounting Services (702-3374) if you do not receive all of them.

97-2	Receipts
97-3	Appropriations
97-4	Commitments and Vendor Payments
97-5	Transfer Lists/Corrections for FY 96-97
97-6	Payrolls
97-7	Statewide GAAP Closing/Single Audit Act

Please note that Memorandum 97-4 contains special instructions and cut-off dates for agencies which are processing their commitments and vendor payments electronically through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Paperless Processing. These extended cut-off dates are available only to MOU agencies.
You are responsible for disseminating these instructions to those in your agency required to implement the specific procedures. It is particularly important that all dates and deadlines be observed. We anticipate allowing no exceptions to these instructions.
Please note, sufficient staff must be available at each agency through June 30th to provide coverage to resolve all accounting issues to insure that all transactions are processed this fiscal year.

NANCY WYMAN
STATE COMPTROLLER