The General Accounting Department of the Controller's Office has as its primary responsibilities the daily operations of the University's accounting system (Financial Record System "FRS"), including:

• Control the flow of transactions to the general ledger system (FRS) from subsystems and online journals including correction of system errors and various account control analyses.  
• Creation and system maintenance of all University non-sponsored accounts, department numbers (see FORMS on the left side bar)
• Coordination of the month/year end FRS closings (see quick link s to the left) and FRS reports distribution.
• Security Access Control - FRS, Departmental Management Accounting System (DMAS) and Report Distribution System (RDS) (see FORMS on the left side bar)

Additional responsibilities include:

• Serving as liaison between the Gift system and FRS, reconciling the two systems.
• Placing of Stop Payments and issuing of replacement checks (see FORMS on the left side bar) 
• Tax Reporting: Annual Federal 1099 reporting, State of Florida reporting including Sales tax, Communications Services tax, Parking Surcharge and Abandoned Property (see TAX ISSUES AND GUIDANCE on the left side bar).
• Medical School Bank Reconciliations for primary accounts.