USAS Profile Review and Cleanup Procedures –
Profile Review for Organization Code Profile (D03) and Index Code Profile (24)

Background

The organization structure allows agencies to establish hierarchical relationships for their internal accounting needs. For example, an agency’s activities could be grouped by operational divisions, by geographical territories, by reporting units or by some combination thereof. There are up to nine levels in the organization structure.

Level 1, agency level, is always defined as organization code 0000 when the organization structure is used. Levels 2-10 are user-definable by each agency.

Note: Agency level for the program structure is level 0, while agency level for the organization structure is level 1.

Index serves as a coding-reduction element in USAS. Among the data elements that can be looked up by an index are appropriation number, fund, grant number and phase, project number and phase and PCA. Index codes are attached to the lowest level of the organization structure established by an agency.