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The term Release Date is used to signify the date material was posted on the ADS web site.
The ADS Booklet is an informative, user-friendly guide to USAID’s Automated Directives System (ADS). Packed with graphics and easy-to-follow information, it explains what the ADS is, its structure and content, how to access it (web and CD), and how to find Agency policy or required procedures within the ADS.
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Series 100: Agency Organization and Legal Affairs
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Series 100 Interim Update #05-02, 2005 Annual Filing Requirement for the Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278)
Revised: 04/07/2005
Release Date: 04/11/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
This notice announces the annual requirement for certain senior employees to file the SF-278 (Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report). It identifies the categories of employees who are required to file and provides point of contact names for assistance and deadlines for filing the report.
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Series 200: Programming Policy
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FY 2004 Statutory Checklist, a mandatory reference for ADS 201
Revised: 03/03/2004
Release Date: 04/05/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
This reference has been added back in to ADS 201 as an additional help reference.
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Series 200 Interim Update #05-06, Guidance on the payment of salaries and benefits for persons hired under program-funded Foreign Service Limited Authority
Revised: 03/28/2005
Release Date: 04/07/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
Guidance on use of the Foreign Service Limited (FSL) Authority provides background, policy, and step by step instructions on the payment of salary and benefits for FSLs from program accounts. This authority, established in the FY2004 appropriations act and modified for FY 2005, allows the Agency to hire program funded direct hires for deployment in Washington and overseas on a not-to-exceed five years limited appointment.
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Series 500: Management Services
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Clearance List for ADS Material, a mandatory reference for ADS 501
Revised: 03/24/2005
Release Date: 04/07/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
These changes were made to this reference:
- Added Roopa Karia as the clearing official for GDA.
- Removed Curt Reintsma as the clearing official for GDA.
- Added Blair Cooper as the clearing official for PPC/DEI.
- Removed Judith Coker as the clearing official for PPC/DEI.
- Added Shawn Barrett as the clearing official for M/FM/CFO/MPI.
- Removed Joe Keady as the clearing official for M/FM/CFO/MPI.
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Authorized Senders for Agency Notices, a mandatory reference for ADS 504
Revised: 04/13/2005
Release Date: 04/14/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
The reference was updated with these changes:
- Added the category of Asian Pacific American Employee Committee (APAEC)
- Added Elena Prince, Li-Ping Lin, and Kathleen Wu to APAEC
- Added Lynn Mason and Wanda Taylor to HR
- Added Norma Aguilar-Tomas to AA/M
- Deleted Rose Moye from EOP
- Added Enid Williams to E&E
- Added Avon Bowe to PPC
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Series 600: Budget and Finance
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ADS 634, Administrative Control of Funds
Revised: 04/08/2005
Release Date: 04/25/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
This revision includes the legislative mandate that all Anti-Deficiency Act violations reported to the President and Congress must also be provided to the Comptroller General at the same time. The legislation makes the Comptroller General the Federal repository for all Anti-Deficiency Reports, effective 12/08/2004. The Agency may report in either electronic PDF file format or in paper form. ADS 634.3.5.4a, Reporting on Funds Control Violations -- Anti-Deficiency Act violations, was rewritten to reflect the specific requirements and provides the appropriate addresses for both transmission formats.
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Series 600 Interim Update #05-05, Improving the Determination Process for Deobligating Unliquidated Balances in Prior Year Travel Authorizations (TAs)
Revised: 04/05/2005
Release Date: 04/07/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
Per ADS 621, Obligations, only the Bureau for Management, Office of Administrative Services, Travel and Transportation Division (M/AS/TT) and the Bureau for Management, Office of Financial Management, Accounting Division (M/FM/A) have the authority to deobligate unliquidated funds in TAs. Striving for an efficient division of labor, it was recently decided that M/AS/TT would be responsible for deobligating funds in current year TAs while M/FM/A has the responsibility for deobligating funds in prior year TAs. Based on the potential for upward adjustments due to prematurely deobligating funds, M/FM/A is hesitant to automatically deobligate residual funds without a proper review by the respective Bureau/Office.
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Series 600 Interim Update #05-04, Uniform Accruals Materiality Threshold, to be included in ADS 631, Accrued Expenditures
Revised: 03/24/2005
Release Date: 04/07/2005
New and Revised Policy Directives and Required Procedures:
This notice supercedes the general notice dated December 14, 2004, with this subject: Accruals Materiality Threshold for USAID/W and Phoenix Missions. This revision rescinds the Mission Accounting and Control System (MACS) accruals materiality threshold (starting with the June 2005 accruals cycle) and establishes a uniform materiality threshold for estimating and reporting accruals in both USAID/W and Missions.
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