Department of Financial Services
Division of Accounting and Auditing
Form 042 – DOR
OBJECT CODE STANDARDIZATION PROJECT
Impact Statement Form
1.
Agency Name: Florida Department of Revenue-Child Support Enforcement
2.
Contact Name
3.
Christopher Ellis
Ellisc@dor.state.fl.us
Contact Title
5.
Revenue Program Administrator I
(850)-617-8072
4.
Contact E-mail
Contact Phone Number
6.
Impact to agency if request is not approved:
Expenditure Reporting
Business System Impact - Names of System(s): Child Support Automated Management System
Other – Please explain:
7.
Impact Statement (Explanation of Impact to the agency include any concerns on timeline):
1. The CAMS system accounts for child support transactions and the only fund in the state treasury that CAMS
interfaces with is the Child Support Clearing Trust Fund (74-2-081002).
As currently designed, the CAMS/FLAIR outbound interface uses a system determined (for most receipts)
or manually determined (for a few receipts and all disbursements) departmental specific object code to
populate the balance of the FLAIR entry. In addition to populating the rest of the FLAIR fields (including
org; eo; vendor; transaction description), for receipts, this determines the deposit grouping (distinguishing
between JTs from various other agencies and check deposits) Object codes are also used on the inbound
interface to recognize transactions originating outside of CAMS affecting the fund and to update the CAMS
business system with those transactions.
The majority of the impact of a significant reduction in the number of codes available would be on the
revenue side. Since the revenue standards are not available and will not be available for another year, it is
not currently possible to fix the number of revenue codes that would be needed. This impact is focused on
the expense side.
Currently, there are 2 high level approaches to addressing the object code standardization project.
I. Using 4 additional expense object codes (all in the 8XXXXX series and maximizing the use of the new
standard codes to the extent possible) we could reconfigure the existing interface without altering basic
functionality. This option is dependent upon receiving approval to use a few specific expense codes. This
would be significantly cheaper than Option II.
The new codes needed are impacted by what the final crosswalk will look like. Based upon the nature of the
transactions, the request assumes that the following five codes in the crosswalk will be remapped as follows.
Current
810088
810096
810173
811005
899030
Proposed
810187
810000
810188
811000
810188
We think it should be
811006
810188
810131
810131
899100
The 4 additional codes are shown Section 8
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Department of Financial Services
Division of Accounting and Auditing
OBJECT CODE STANDARDIZATION PROJECT
Impact Statement Form
It is estimated that implementing Approach I would require 8 hours of technical development/testing time at
an approximate cost of $700. Additionally there would be staff time involved.
II. Redesign the interface. Significant resources and expense would be required. This option has the
disadvantage of potentially being “throwaway” as the interface may well need another complete redesign
when the “FLAIR replacement” system is implemented.
The probable redesign approach would be to concatenate two FLAIR fields (object code + another field that
could be used to specifically identify the transaction—possibly OCA or EO to drive an OCA) into one
CAMS field. This would require modifying field length on the CAMS BSEG table (the general ledger for
CAMS), the read/write to/from CAMS on the interfaces and reconfiguring the table that maps CAMS entries
to FLAIR and vice versa.
No additional statewide object codes would be required.
It is estimated that implementing Approach II would require 300 hours of technical development/testing
time at an approximate cost of $29,600. Additionally there would be staff time involved.
Response: See #8 below for the response to each requested object code.
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Department of Financial Services
Division of Accounting and Auditing
OBJECT CODE STANDARDIZATION PROJECT
Impact Statement Form
8. Request for Statewide Object Codes (if applicable)
Short
Object Code
Title
Long Title
CS DISB
CHILD SUPPORT
DISBURSEMENTS
8101XX
ST SH
RET
STATE SHARE OF
RETAINED CS
COLLECTIONS
8110XX
FED SH
RET
FED SHARE OF
RETAINED CS
COLLECTIONS
8101XX
COST
REC
ADMINISTRATIVE
COST RECOVERY
8991XX
Definition
The movement of child support
collections received in the treasury
to the state disbursement unit
(outside the state treasury) as part
of the distribution to the final
intended recipient.
The disposition of the state share
of child support collections
retained against assistance
obligations pursuant to s.
409.2561, F.S.
The disposition of the federal share
of child support collections
retained against assistance
obligations pursuant to s.
409.2561, F.S
The disposition of cost payments
and child support payments
applied to cost obligations
(collected. pursuant to s.
409.2567(3) F.S. and disbursed
pursuant to 61.1814 F.S.)
Justification
Distinguish disbursement
of child support from any
other movement of cash to
the SDU
Distinguish retained
collections from
collections deemed undistributable pursuant to s.
409.2558 F.S.
Distinguish retained
collections from
collections deemed undistributable pursuant to s.
409.2558 F.S.
Distinguish the disposition
of administrative costs
pursuant to s. 409.2567(3)
F.S. from other program
income moved from the
clearing fund.
Approved
Y/N
Comments
Y
899107 - Child Support
Disbursements is proposed.
Y
810202 Distributions/Transfers - CS
Collections - State is proposed.
Y
810203 Distributions/Transfers - CS
Collections - Fed is proposed.
N
Agency should be directed to
810199 Distributions/Transfers Administrative.
THE FOLLOWING CERTIFICATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY THE AGENCY’S DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION OR DELEGATE.
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Department of Financial Services
Division of Accounting and Auditing
OBJECT CODE STANDARDIZATION PROJECT
Impact Statement Form
I hereby certify, to the best of my knowledge, that the information provided above is true and correct.
Printed Name:
Lia Mattuski
Signature:
Title: Director, Financial Management
Phone Number:850-617-8377
Date Signed:
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