Disbursing organizations shall meet the following conditions
and/or requirements:
A. The disbursing organization shall provide evidence of satisfactory
internal control, evidence of which shall be required by the Chief
Financial Officer. Such evidence may be:
(1) The disbursing organization's Report on Policies and Procedures
Placed in Operation and Tests of Operating Effectiveness, performed
pursuant to AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70;
(2) A completed SysTrust™ examination
with an unqualified report on Availability, Security, Integrity and
Maintainability completed in accordance with AICPA/CICA (Canadian
Institute of Chartered Accountants) SysTrust™ Principles and Criteria for Systems Reliability; or
(3) Evidence of compliance with a mutually agreed upon external standard
for determination of the sufficiency of a system of internal controls
that support the work to be performed in accordance with the policies
established by the local unit.
All disbursing organizations shall have offices within a distance
acceptable to the Chief Financial Officer of the local unit such that
the physical delivery and receipt of documents and records can occur
in a manner that assures the delivery of paychecks on regularly scheduled
paydays.