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Financial Management Division

Mission

Financial Management Division

The Financial Management Division (FMD) administers a financial management program within the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) that establishes clear and concise financial policy to comply with congressional intent, Federal laws and regulations, and convey the Department and Agency defined fiscal resource management practices; provides high quality financial advice, accounting, financial management reporting, and fund status services; and furnishes automated financial processing and management software tools to assist ARS managers and research scientists in managing their fiscal resources.

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Fiscal Operations Branch

  • Coordinates the development of budget execution plans through the Annual Resource Management Planning (ARMP) process.

  • Provides funds control services to ARS Headquarters offices, staffs, and the Administrative and Financial Management divisions, and CSREES fundholders, including execution and tracking of reimbursable agreements and other financial arrangements.

  • Provides operational support to the ARS Operations Staff in centrally managing the Agency discretionary resources such as salary lapse, Agency repair and maintenance, and departmental hazardous waste cleanup funds.

  • Provides operational support to the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), including maintenance of accounting codes in the NFC Management Accounting Structure Code (MASC) system.

  • Provides operational support to the Research, Education, and Economics (REE) agencies for departmental centralized services funded in the "Greenbook", and representation on the Working Capital Fund (WCF) Working Group analyzing and recommending budget resource levels for WCF Activity Centers.

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Financial Systems and Analysis Branch

  • The Financial Systems and Analysis Branch is responsible for oversight of financial systems (FMMI and NFC Interfaces).

  • Development and interpretation of financial policies and procedures as they relate to ARS financial systems.

  • Provides Help Desk support for FMMI for ARS.

  • Coordinates the analysis and testing of FMMI standard BI (Business Intelligence) Reports for ARS.

  • Develops BI reports as needed for ARS.

  • Coordinates common issues with the REE FMMI leads, as necessary.

  • Provide financial statement support.

  • Provide ARS/NASS Functional Administrator support.

Travel Relocation Services Branch

  • The Travel and Relocation Services Branch provides interpretation of Federal, Department of Agriculture, and Department of State travel regulations and initiates Agency policy to support REE travel functions.

  • Provides travel support to travelers, clerical, and upper management as well as training on the Unified Travel System.

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Appropriation Level Management Staff

  • Reviews, analyzes, and gives assurance that the internal and official external accounting reports accurately portray the results of the REE Agencies' budget and financial management operations.

  • Prepares internal status of fund accounting reports and consolidated financial statements for the external use of Treasury, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and other Government agencies.

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Last Updated: 04/12/2011