County Financial Management

Financial Management Manual (PDF, 39 pages)
Policies, Procedures and Guidelines for Maintaining Financial Accountability by County Extension Offices
(Updated April, 2005)

Quicken Users' files
All files are PDF files, except where noted otherwise

• Table of Contents
• Setup/Getting Started
• Entering Transactions
• Reconciling with the bank statement
• Allocate funds to P&D accounts
• How to carry transactions into a new file
• Reporting of non-tax fund activity
• Quicken and credit card use
• Quicken and invoices
• Quicken and accounts payable
• Change fund and petty cash
• Correcting check entries
• Separation of duties
• Sales tax calculations
• Form 13
• Quicken corrections
• Quicken allocator 05 (Microsoft Word format)
• Quicken allocator 05b (Microsoft Excel format)
• Registration fee worksheet (Microsoft Excel format)

Below is a link for a video that describes the process by which you can tell if your non-tax county Quicken accounts are balancing at the end of the month.  It also describes how to resolve problems if and when you complete the allocation and your net worth is not zero.

http://madison.unl.edu/media/allocation%20of%20funds.wmv