Lesson 3.3: Cost Posting Reports Lesson Overview

Objective: At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • Describe how to access and generate Cost Posting Reports.
Cost Posting Reports

Cost Posting Reports include a series of budget execution reports for commitments through invoices and will present data by object class numbers.

You may use several Cost Posting Reports including:

Open Document Reports

Cost Transaction Reports

Committed Document Report

Cross Reference Report

Liquidated Obligation Report

Paid Expenditures

Unpaid Advances

Generate Unpaid Invoices Aging Report

Generate Unliquidated Advances Aging Report

Travelers Authorized for Group Travel Report

Open Disaster Obligations By ACCS

Status Change Report

Report Name or DescriptionWhat it ShowsHow to Run

Cost Reporting:

Open Commitments

Open Obligations

Open Invoices

Open Advances

Approved Invoices

Available and outstanding balances

Invoices that have not been scheduled or paid

Unliquidated/outstanding advances

Data for user's location and only documents entered using the proper document numbering formats

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on the desired report.
  3. Enter ACCS information for desired allocation(s).
Paid Expenditures By ACCS or Document

Expenditures posted, including document number, amounts, referenced documents, and ACCS lines, only reporting documents for the user's location

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on Paid Expenditure By ACCS or Document.
  3. Enter ACCS information or document number for desired allocation(s).
Unpaid Advances By ACCS or Document

Advances that have not been paid by status (OPEN, APPROVED, SCHEDULED)

Advance control number, amount, vendor number, obligation reference, and ACCS

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on Unpaid Advances By ACCS or Document.
  3. Enter the location code to run the report.
Generate Unpaid Invoices Aging Report

Invoices that are older than 31 days and have not been scheduled for payment

Control number, invoice number and obligation reference (PO), status, and date entered

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on Generate Unpaid Invoices Aging Report.
  3. Enter the location code to run the report.
Generate Unliquidated Advances Aging Report

Advances that have not been liquidated (outstanding advances)

Control number, obligation reference, status, and date entered

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on Generate Unliquidated Advances Aging Report.
  3. Enter the location code to run the report.
Liquidated Obligation Report

Detailed information about invoices paid against a specific obligation

Amount paid, date paid, Treasury schedule number, and check number

Information about invoice payments, not expenditure payments 

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on Liquidated Obligation Report.
  3. Enter the obligation document number, matching the format posted in IFMIS. 

Transaction Reports:

Commitments

Obligations

Receiving

Expenditures

Advances

Invoices

Data entry for individual transactions for a specific document

Information such as user, date and time entered, ACCS, amounts, and partial/final flag setting

Original entry as well as subsequent modifications

The entry's affect on the disposition of funds; for example, it shows increases and decreases to CM, OB, EX, and BD; doesn't show how other documents may have affected the document being reported

Transaction details entered in IFMIS; excludes converted transactions

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Transaction Reporting.
  2. Click on desired report.
  3. Enter date or leave blank for all dates.
  4. Enter the document number, matching the format entered in IFMIS.
Status Change Report

Status changes (OPEN, APPROVED, SCHEDULED, PAID), user, date, and time entered for individual invoices and advance transactions

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Transaction Reporting.
  2. Click on Status Change Report.
  3. Enter “IN” (invoice) or “AD” (advance).
  4. Enter the invoice or advance control number.

Committed Document Reports:

Build Commitment

Run Commitment

View Commitment

Run New Commitment

View New Commitment

Status of an allocation and gives detailed information about individual entries posted against it

Transaction details of Amounts Committed, Available Commitments, Amounts Obligated, Unliquidated Obligations, and Expended Amounts

Summary of Authorized and Available Amounts

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cost Reporting.
  2. Click on Committed Document Report.
  3. Click on desired report.
  4. Enter the applicable ACCS information for the desired allocation. ACCS information for sub-allocation level will not be accepted.
Cross Reference Report

Documents that have referenced or affected the document upon which the report is run; for example, running the report on a specific commitment will list the obligations made against that commitment, and running the report on a specific obligation will list all invoices, advances and expenditures posted against that obligation

Information includes document numbers, ACCS reference lines, current document status, balances, payments, and advances from legendary systems

  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Cross Reference Report.
  2. Enter the acronym that corresponds to the document that was affected by subsequent transactions. For example, if you want to see what obligations were posted against a commitment, enter CM. Similarly, if you want to see payments against an obligation, enter OB.
  3. Enter the document number (Commitment ID, Obligation ID, etc.).

Open Disaster Obligations By ACCS

Open disaster assistance obligations, including document number, ACCS, vendor, and amount available
  1. Click Cost Posting Subsystem>Disaster Reports.
  2. Click on Open Disaster Obligations By ACCS.
  3. Enter the applicable ACCS information.
Travelers Authorized for Group Travel ReportAll travelers authorized to travel on a group travel authorization, including names and E#
  1. Click on Cost Posting Subsystem>Travel Reports.
  2. Click on Travelers Authorized for Group Travel Report.
  3. Enter group travel authorization number.
Lesson 3.3 Summary
This lesson covered:
  • Cost Posting Reports.

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