NCAS Current Components and Supporting Systems
The NCAS currently comprises a comprehensive business environment, as demonstrated in Figure 1, which supports:

Figure 1. NCAS Business Environment

 
While information from primary user Geac agencies is automatically included in the NCAS, agencies that are not primary users of this software are required to provide accounting information from their core systems through interface facilities.  The interfacing process for existing systems requires a conversion (or crosswalk) table that converts the agency data structures into the NCAS uniform formats.  New or replacement systems that are determined to reside on software other than the NCAS primary core software, as they are designed and developed, will include data structures that mirror those in the NCAS.  This will facilitate the access to uniform information across the State enterprise.  While access to NCAS information for primary users is real-time and/or daily, the schedule for interfacing of other systems’ data is currently monthly or annually.

Specific agency-level systems that conduct the State's various programmatic and central management functions provide information to the NCAS.  These supporting systems are separately identifiable with their own data entry, processes, outputs, and internal controls.  They share, receive, and provide financial information to each other and to the NCAS.  The activities included by such supporting systems range from the accounting and administrative functions of the agencies to their unique programs and operating functions.  Central management systems provide control over various central management program and financial functions.  These central management subsystems include: