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Statewide Accounting glossary

This is a list of terms used within the Washington Administrative and Accounting Manual (WAAM) and within Workday. To find a term, enter it in in the search box, and select 'Apply'.

Termsort descending Category Definition
Information Technology (IT)

All electronic technology systems, products and services. Equipment, software, services, and products used in processing information, office automation, and telecommunications (voice, data and/or video).

Inserted Warrant (ISW)

Workday warrants that are mailed to suppliers and payees by Consolidated Mail Services (CMS).

Internal service fund

A fund type used to report activities that provide goods or services to other funds, departments, or agencies of the state on a cost reimbursement basis. Internal service funds are used where the state is the predominate participant in the activity.

Internal Service Funds

Used to account for the provision of goods or services by one department or agency to other departments or agencies of the state or to other governmental units, on a cost-reimbursement basis. Internal service funds should only be used if the state is the predominant participant in the activity.

Intersection Security Group Cross Application

An intersection security group is one whose members are other security groups. Workers associated with all included security groups are granted access through an intersection security group.

Investment Trust Funds

Used to report the external portion of investment pools reported by the sponsoring government.

Invoice Date

The date listed on an invoice received from a supplier. In Workday, the invoice date field on a Supplier Invoice defaults to the current date and is used to determine the payment due date. 

Invoice Received Date

The date the invoice was received by the agency.

Job-Based Security Group Cross Application

A job-based security group includes one or more job-related attributes or objects including job profile, job family, job category, management level, or exempt/non-exempt status.

Ledger account

Asset, liability, equity, revenue and expense accounts. Balance sheet accounts are entered directly on transactions and revenue and expense accounts default from the Spend/Revenue Categories of the Pay Component.

Legacy Data Extracts

The support provided by the Data Conversion Team in cleansing, extracting, and transforming data from legacy systems for submission and consolidation into Workday.

Legacy System Remediation (LSR)

The collaborative effort to update current systems designed for AFRS, enabling them to seamlessly integrate with the future OneWA financials.

Local fund/accounts

Accounts under the control of an agency with cash on deposit in a local bank account and requiring the signature of agency officials on a check for disbursement. Some local funds are on deposit with the State Treasurer as a matter of convenience or statutory requirement.

Location Membership Security Group Cross Application

A location membership security group is one whose members are any workers assigned to that location.

Measurement Focus

The accounting convention which determines: (1) which assets and which liabilities are included on the governmental unit's balance sheet; and (2) whether its operating statement presents "financial flow" information (revenue and expenditures) or "capital maintenance" information (revenues and expenses). Refer to Current Financial Resources Measurement Focus and Economic Resources Measurement Focus.

Miscellaneous Payment Request

A Workday operational transaction used to make a payment to a  one-time payee.

Refer to WAAM Chapter 90 - Statewide Customers and Suppliers for more details on Suppliers and Miscellaneous Payees. 

Modified accrual basis

The basis of accounting under which expenditures, whether paid or unpaid, are formally recognized when the liability is incurred against the account, but revenues are recognized only when they become both measurable and available to finance expenditures of the current accounting period. All governmental funds use the modified accrual basis of accounting.

Nonappropriated funds

Moneys that can be expended without legislative appropriation. Only funds in accounts specifically established in state law as being exempt from appropriation fall into this category. Nonappropriated accounts can be either budgeted (and subject to OFM allotment approval) or nonbudgeted.

Nonbudgeted funds

Funds that are not subject to either the appropriation or the allotment process.

Object of expenditure

A common grouping of expenditures made on the basis of homogenous activity, goods or services purchased, or type of resource to be used. Applies to the character of the article purchased or service obtained (rather than the purpose).

Open Item Financial

Supplier and customer invoices that have an amount owing or due. For expense reports, a line item to be paid or reconciled.

Operating budget

A biennial plan for the revenues and expenditures necessary to support the administrative and service functions of state government.

Organization Security Group Cross Application

An organization security group is one whose members are any workers assigned to that organization.

Pension (and other employee benefit) Trust Funds

Used to report resources that are required to be held in trust by the state for the members and beneficiaries of defined benefit pension plans, defined contribution pension plans, other post employment benefit plans, or other employee benefit plans.

Permanent Funds

Used to account for resources that are restricted to the extent that only earnings, and not principal, may be used for the benefit of the state or its citizenry.

Phase 1A Scope

The replacement of AFRS with the new Workday ERP system, including accounts receivable, cost allocation, accounts payable, spending plans, purchase authority, banking, fixed assets, interagency payments, and more.

Predefined security Group Cross Application

Workers are assigned to the predefined security groups through a business process. These groups cannot be changed except by reversing the business process or executing a new business process, such as applying for a position, or being hired. Examples include: Employee, Contingent Worker, and Applicant.

Prepaid Debit Cards

Cards for which the prefunded value is associated with a bank account, which must be accessed for payment authorization. These cards can be reloadable or disposable and include cards such as flexible spending account cards, government benefit cards, etc.

Refer to WAAM Section 60.30.130 - Electronic Benefit Transfers, Payroll Cards, Stored Valued Cards, and Other Electronic Technologies.

Private-Purpose Trust Funds

Used to report trust arrangements, other than pension funds or investment trusts funds, under which principal and income benefit individuals, private organizations, or other governments. The resources held under these arrangements are not available to support the government’s own programs.

Program

Any of the major activities of an agency expressed as a primary function or organizational unit. Agencies may not alter their program structure without the explicit approval of the Legislature and OFM.

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