11/24/03

ABC Implementation Status

Minerals Management Service

Status and Approach:

Changed MMS work activities to align with the DOI standard work activities.

Many MMS work activities map to a single DOI standard work activity.

Employees coding time and financial agreements to new activities beginning

October 1, 2003.

FY2003 must be closed before FY2004 can be fully functional in ABACIS

(FY2004 opened in ABACIS, November 18, 2003)

Expect to begin sending FY2004 financial data within the next two weeks.

Export file will include obligations and expenditures by transaction.

Briefed employees of changes between FY2003 and 2004 with DOI ABC

Training Video and locally prepared briefings.

Implementation Issues:

Cost in DOI Indian Trust activities under represents the true Indian Trust

workload and cost.

Indian Trust Intermediate Strategies and End Outcome goals not showing

full Indian Trust cost.

Compliance work done by company, not property type

Financial management functions not easily distinguishable between Indian

and Federal.

Where possible, Indian Trust costs are captured in Indian Trust activities.

Common definitions for outputs shared among bureaus.

MMS must maintain its own ABC system to provide cost and managerial

Information useful to bureau and field managers.