INTRODUCTION

GENERAL 

The Statewide Accounting and Reporting System (STARS) serves as the State’s centralized accounting and financial reporting system. STARS accounts for and reports on statewide financial transactions on the budgetary basis of accounting (i.e. the cash basis). Under the budgetary basis of accounting revenue is recorded when cash is received and expenditures are recorded when cash is expended with the following exceptions:

 

STARS captures financial data in a manner that ensures agency compliance with the Appropriation Act. Specifically, STARS:

 

STARS is a "table driven" system. This means that key data elements such as agency code, transaction code, and mini code recorded on STARS input documents trigger table lookups. The table driven system is designed to minimize the amount of input data needed to process, record, and report on the State’s financial transactions.

The primary functions of STARS are to:

 

STARS requires agencies to:

 

STARS provides agencies with:

 

STARS does not provide:

 

INTRODUCTION topics:

Background Classification Structure General Input Documents Reports System Input System Overview