Welcome to the Interdepartmental Settlement Processing Guide for Departments.

The purpose of this guide is to assist departments in the processing of Interdepartmental Settlements (IS).

An Interdepartmental Settlement refers to a transfer of funds between any two government departments that operate within the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

The implementation of Phase 1 of the FIS introduced new procedures for the handling of IS for FIS departments. The implementation of FIS extended over three years, April 1999 to April 2001.

Some of the changes specific to IS that have taken place with the introduction of FIS and the new IS Policy include:

• The Central Accounting Journal Voucher (CAJV) process between two FIS departments is eliminated and replaced with a) the IS process in SPS or b) IJV's with the Receiver General. Refer to Chapter 7, Receiver General-General Ledger (RG-GL) of the Receiver General Manual.
• A new Suite of Central Systems including the Standard Payment System (SPS).
• A general rule that IS transactions initiated by the creditor department.

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