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Financial Management Information System (FMIS)

Executive Summary:
The FMIS is the primary automated financial system for the Offices, Boards and Divisions, the U.S. Attorneys, and the Bureau of Prisons. The FMIS supports the full range of financial management requirements, including the general ledger function, budget execution, travel, third party and Treasury payment, credit card purchases, etc. FMIS is continually evolving to make use of new techniques and technologies to respond to new requirements and provide easily obtainable and understandable information to all levels of staff involved in financial operations or management as well as budget formulation and execution.

Background:
The FMIS currently collects data via forms based PC front ends, mainframe front ends and file transfers, processes the data in a mainframe VM/CMS environment and stores data on a massively parallel processing back end database machine (Teradata). It uses 4th generation languages and relational tables to develop applications for transaction processing and reporting, enabling rapid development to provide a flexible system responsive to changing needs and capable of describing complex interrelationships among data as useful information. The information is used for operational processing of the funds flowing to, from, and within the Department, management controls and external reporting requirements, and planning and forecasting activities. In accordance with the CFO Act of 1990, OMB Circular A-127 and other JFMIP requirements FMIS is continuing progress towards an integrated financial management system.

Objectives:
The primary objectives of FMIS are:

• To automate transaction processing related to the receipt or payment of funds
• To automate record storage and retrieval related to the process.
• To support management controls over the process, including internal / external report requirements.
• To provide reliable information for use in planning for the Department's future needs and assessing its present and past activities.

Current Status:
Operational.