Re: IDEAS-PD/FFS Instructions for Remote Data Entry

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 07:03:53 -0400
To: "AO - All Administrative Officers"<distribution>
From: "Alice A. Sabatini, Division Administrative Officer, WRD" <aasabati>
Subject: Re: IDEAS-PD/FFS Instructions for Remote Data Entry
 
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:35:59 -0400

To: Melanie Farmer <mfarmer>, "John J Blickley,  Reston, VA" <jblickley>,
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    "Martha M Long,  Reston, VA" <mlong>,
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From: Melissa Courtney <mcourtne>

Subject: Re: IDEAS-PD/FFS Instructions for Remote Data Entry

Cc: "Walbert, John A" <jwalbert>, "Farmer, Melanie J" <mfarmer>,
    "Fulk, Brenda L" <bfulk>, ofm_scb@mailrvao1.er.usgs.GOV,
    "Peterson, John K" <jpeterso>, "Carswell, Linda R" <lcarswel>


I wanted to briefly clarify one portion of these instructions;
specifically, the section headed "<bold>Manual Procedures for Fixed
Assets ($15,000 threshold)".  Although we have received approval
from DOI to raise our capitalization threshold to $15,000, we have not
yet implemented that new capitalization threshold.  We plan
to make this change later this fiscal year.

It is also extremely important to remember that the change in
capitalization threshold will have no effect whatsoever on the
ACCOUNTABILITY THRESHOLD.  That is, after the new capitalization
threshold is in place, items costing between $5K and $15K must still be
tracked in the Fixed Assets Subsystem and must still be considered
accountable property (as are certain items costing less than $5K, such as
weapons, or trailers with license plates, etc.)  Copies of acquisition
documents for ACCOUNTABLE ITEMS must be sent to the appropriate Property
office so that the Fixed Asset record can be entered.


If there are any questions about this, please don't hesitate to contact
me.  Thank you for your cooperation. 


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