Fiscal Affairs

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John Wall, Chief Administrator
(718) 935-3544

The mission of the Office of Fiscal Affairs is to maintain the highest level of integrity and reliability of all aspects of the Department of Education’s accounting and financial reporting while taking the greatest strides in the use of current technology.  We are committed to being responsive to the needs of our schools, teachers, vendors and governmental oversights and guaranteeing the time spent on processing and inquiry is free of complications.

 WHAT'S NEW IN FISCAL AFFAIRS

DECEMBER 3, 2009

The Division of Financial Operations (DFO) recently enhanced the Travel Reimbursement and Approval Certification (“TRAC”) application. These upgrades will go into production on December 7, 2009.

  1. Air travel and/or lodging messaging: We now offer travelers the option to select “P-Card or PO” payment box. If the traveler checks “PO” the approver realizes that there may be additional costs involved than what they see in TRAC, and decide to approve or reject accordingly.
  2. Recycling rejected requests: In the past, travelers whose approver or FAMIS initiator rejected their request would have to start a whole new approval process. This was time-consuming. The system now allows them to edit the request and resubmit it through for approval without starting from scratch.
  3. Copying other stakeholders: We realize that travelers communicate with others beyond their approver in non-school-based settings. For example, they may need to inform their FAMIS user that budget action is needed and that user may be in a different location entirely. We’ve added a handy “cc” to support this connection.
  4. Automated reminder e-mails: We modified TRAC to send another e-mail to the approver automatically if they have not approved or rejected a TRAC request within 48 hours of receiving the first e-mail.   

  Revised SIPP Process

  2008 Annual Financial Statements