Headquarters U.S. Air Force
Integrity - Service - Excellence
Closing Thoughts
Thomas J. Murphy
Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Financial Operations
United States Air Force
April 20, 2017
The Big Rocks
1. Be prepared to undergo continuous
Full Financial Statement Audits by
9/30/17
2. Modernize and simplify the Financial
Management Systems Environment
3. Improve timeliness and auditability of
processing
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Show me the money!
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The Report Card
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What’s Out – What’s In
What’s Out
What’s In
MICP
A-123
DJMS
Integrated Pay & Personnel
Journal Vouchers
Automated, Integrated Posting
Overaged = 60 Days
Overaged = 7 Days
Post Transaction Clean-Up
Front End Controls
Cubs = Lovable Losers
Cubs = Baseball Dynasty
FIAR
Ongoing Audit
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AF Universe of Transactions
(UoT) Enterprise
AF
Enterprise
UoT
GF-FM
OPR: SAF/FM
OCR: DFAS ARO
Logistics
OPR: AF/A4
OCRs: AFMC/A4/FM
WCF-FM
OPR: AFMC/FM
OCR: DFAS Accts.
Maint. & Ctrl.
Phase 1: Manual Baseline
Phase 2: Manual Sustainment
Phase 3: Automated Sustainment
Phase 4: Federated Data/IT Environment
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Re-scope LogFins UoT (AFWCF side)
Post DLA Discussion
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Overview of SBR-ART –
General Funds Financial UoT
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Overview of ART – AF Working
Capital Fund Financial UoT
01/13/2017
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All About Chicago
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Best Pizza: Lou Malnati’s
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Best Blues Club: Kingston
Mines
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Best Baseball Team:
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All About Chicago
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The Economics of Front End
Controls
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Air Force Manually Processed Transactions in FY16 – 500,000
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Cost to process these transactions manually = $30 Million
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Cost to process these transactions electronically = $5 Million
Front End Controlled processing doesn’t just make good audit
sense, it makes good business sense.
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FY17 – Year of
DEAMS Proactivity
Be ProACTive
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FY17 – Year of
DEAMS Proactivity (cont’d)
Be ProACTive
Critical Tasks
• Recurring Critical Task list on DEAMS Outreach Portal
• Updated links, reports, and OPR/OCR
Monitoring
• AF, MAJCOMs, bases monitor performance often
• DEAMS metrics, critical task reports, special interest items
Targeted Assistance
• CSD will provide direct assistance to MAJCOMs and bases
• Targeted based on review of DEAMS metrics and other measures
Education
• Job Aids, User Guides, AFFSO DEAMS webinars, Users Forum
• CSD 300/400-level continuing education and ad hoc training
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Safe
Travels!
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