The Standard Accounting and Reporting System (STARS) provides the Department with a modern, comprehensive, and responsive financial management system that is the foundation for linking budget formulation, budget execution, financial accounting, financial reporting, cost accounting, and performance measurement. Laura Kramer and Don Cox, the STARS project managers, worked with the iManage Program Office to revise the STARS project plans to accommodate an accounting system design that fully supports a data warehouse linking common data elements from all of the corporate business systems. STARS was implemented April 2005. Much work had already been done to prepare the Department to field a new accounting system, and that work was incorporated into the revised design plans.