Criteria for Inclusion
in NCAS
The OSC, in accordance with
its statutory responsibilities in G.S. 143B-426.39, determines the systems
that are to be included in the NCAS. These reviews-to-date have resulted
in the current NCAS environment composed of a common central database of
financial and materials management information, a set of primary users
(those who use the NCAS policies and procedures in combination with the
OSC implemented and maintained Geac accounting software modules), and a
set of secondary users (those who use the NCAS policies and procedures
in combination with other software to accomplish the accounting functions
required by NCAS).
As part of the new NCAS,
with its re-engineered policies, procedures, and agency and central systems,
the OSC has defined a set of criteria for inclusion of an enterprise and
its related systems into the NCAS and the method for that inclusion.
When applied appropriately, this criteria assists in the determination
of whether an entity is included in the reporting entity, whether an entity
system has a financial impact, and the method of inclusion in the NCAS
if the entity and/or system meets the first two criteria. These criteria
must be applied to all new or replacement system projects to determine
how those systems might function in the NCAS.