Benefits Proportional by Fund (APS 011) (FPP A.010) has been updated to include changes to the Benefits Proportional by Fund Report instructions and Benefits Proportional by Fund (APS 011) Forms and Sample Letters. Changes include those due to acts of the 82nd Legislature.
See Accounting Policy Statement Updates Effective Sept. 1, 2011 to view Highlights of the APS 011 changes.
Uniform Statewide Payroll/Personnel System (USPS) Application Change Request (ACR) 30406 migrated on April 27 to keep a terminated employee's direct deposit instructions turned on for 60 days past the terminated date, with one exception: Reason Code 069 (Deceased Employee).
For additional information, see ACR 30406 – USPS System Change. Please contact your USPS representative if you have any questions.
May is National Direct Deposit Month and a great time for state agencies and institutions of higher education to learn how direct deposit can save time, money and resources.
You'll find a wealth of agency direct deposit resources on FMX:
It’s all at Texas Direct Deposit: Bank on it.
The monthly security coordinator meeting will be held on Thursday, May 3, at 8 a.m. at Amaya’s Taco Village. For further information, contact Donna Hodde at (512) 475-2143 or donna.hodde@cpa.texas.gov or see Security Coordinator Meetings (login required).
Eleven new policy statements have been added to Texas Payroll/ Personnel Resource. To locate and view the statements, click on a topic below to go to the corresponding topic area on the website:
A new Web-based training class is available for state agency staff entering, maintaining or changing direct deposit information in the Texas Identification Number System (TINS). Fiscal Management invites you to share this training opportunity with your staff who may be involved with direct deposit processing now or in the future.
This introductory course provides one-and-a-half hours of continuing professional education (CPE) credit. Recommended prerequisites are either six months of TINS experience or completion of both the TINS Inquiry and TINS Online classes, either Web-based or classroom.
The focus is vendor direct deposit, but there are helpful topics for payroll direct deposit processing.
The online course:
For more information, see TINS Direct Deposit Web-based Training.
The Statewide Financials Production Portal will be down and, as a result, the following systems will not be accessible:
We apologize for any inconvenience and anticipate the production environments will be fully available at noon on Sunday, April 29. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Comptroller’s Help Desk at (512) 463-4357.
The Fiscal 2012 Second Quarter Post-Payment Audit Report Summaries are available now.
For more audit resources including Fiscal Policies and Procedures, forms and contact information, see the Audit topic page on FMX.
Texas Enterprise Portal Forgotten Password Help Setup Instructions are now available on the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) and Integrated Statewide Administrative System (ISAS) topic pages on FMX.
These instructions explain how to set up information that will help you in case you forget your password. You must follow these steps for the "Forgot your Password?" link on the sign-in screen to work.
Security coordinators are required to certify that their records are up to date through a semiannual security verification process. The security verification is concurrent for all state government accounting systems. The confirmation form must be returned by April 30 for agency or institution security requests to continue to be accepted.
For questions, please email sga.security@cpa.texas.gov or see Semiannual Verification of Users’ Security Access Levels (FPP K.009) (login required).
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts systems will undergo a scheduled PeopleTools upgrade from 7 p.m. Friday, April 20 until noon Sunday, April 22.
The Statewide Financials Production Portal will be down and, as a result, the following systems will not be accessible:
We apologize for any inconvenience and anticipate the production environments will be fully available at noon on Sunday, April 22. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Comptroller’s Help Desk at (512) 463-4357.
A new Web-based training class is available for state agency staff entering, maintaining or changing direct deposit information in the Texas Identification Number System (TINS).
The online course:
For more details, see TINS Direct Deposit Web-based Training.
TINS now calculates the check digit for a 10-digit Texas Identification Number on all inquiry screens. The system will calculate the self-check digit from both Line 1 inquiry and the INQMEN menu screen.
TINS also will display leading zeros for the charter number on the Payee Master Information (PYMAST) screen. Although 10 digits are required for the payee master setup for specific ownership types, leading zeros were previously dropped on the PYMAST screen.
The TINS Guide (FPP P.003) has been updated to reflect these changes.
The following items in the Reference section of the Financial Reporting topic area on FMX have been updated for fiscal 2011:
If you have questions, please contact your financial reporting analyst.
April 13 is the maintenance/corrections deadline for the First Quarter Veteran Workforce Summary Reports (Jan. 1 – March 31). Copies of the quarterly reports will be sent via electronic file transfer (EFT) on April 17. The electronic acknowledgement form and complaints report must be submitted by April 24.
For more information, please see Veteran Workforce Summary and Veteran Complaint Reports (FPP F.038).
Every two years, the Fiscal Management Division of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts updates the Agency Authorization For Warrant Pickup 
form (74-189). All authorizations now on file will terminate at 5 p.m. on April 30, and the new forms will become effective May 1. Please complete the forms and return them to the Fiscal Management Division no later than April 20.
On April 1, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts completed replacement of the state’s multiple Treasury Operations legacy applications with an upgraded solution. The new system is integrated with other state agencies to help manage payment, deposit, funding and return transactions.
Treasury Operations can now more efficiently and securely manage the state’s $140 billion in annual monetary transactions. The new system reduces or eliminates time-consuming manual processes and paper processing. It also increases security controls and provides an easily tracked audit trail.
Texas is among the first states to upgrade to the same technology that supports corporate financial institutions, with 11 manual or legacy functions integrated into the upgraded system.
For more information, contact Laura Kouns at laura.kouns@cpa.texas.gov or (512) 475-0094.