Invoice
A written record of a transaction, often submitted to a customer or client when requesting payment.

Balance Sheet
A statement listing a business's assets, liabilities, and net worth, or equity.

Base Adjustment
Adjustments made to the initial base level budget to reflect total base level funding available to the agency. The list of acceptable base level technical and policy adjustments are included in the biennial budget instructions. Adjustments are generally made on a technical or policy basis. Examples of technical adjustments are one-time appropriations and program sunsets. Examples of policy adjustments are salary increases and space rental changes.

Accounts Payable
Amounts that a business owes

Cash Letter
A group of checks accompanied by a paper listing sent to a clearinghouse, a Federal Reserve Bank, or another institution. A cash letter contains a number of negotiable items, mostly checks, accompanied by a letter that lists the amounts and instructions for transmittal to another bank. May also be called a transmittal letter.

Compliance Audits
Compliance audits are internal or external audits performed to evaluate whether systems or processes are designed and operating effectively to ensure compliance with pertinent laws, rules, regulations, and internal policies and procedures

Accounts Receivable
Amounts owed to a business that the business expects to receive.

Accrual Method Of Accounting
Accounts for income and expenses in the 12-month period earned or incurred, which is not necessarily when it is received or paid.

Ledger
A physical collection of related financial information, such as revenues, expenditures, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.

Account
A collection of financial information grouped according to customer or purpose.