(a) There shall be set up and maintained in the office of the director of accounts and budgets a system of fiscal procedure, control and centralized accounting, set out and described in this section, which shall be under the administrative control and direction of the director; but such system shall be conducted in full accordance with the general law of this state respecting the duties and responsibilities of the county mayor as fiscal agent of the county.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 5-13-104
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) The system of fiscal procedure, control and accounting provided for in this section shall conform to generally accepted principles of governmental accounting and shall be in substantial agreement with the recommendations of the national committee on governmental accounting.(c) The system shall include such records and procedures as may be required to accurately reflect the assets, liabilities, income and expenditures of each fund of the county, together with such records, accounts and files as are necessary to record and control:
(1) The transactions relating to county revenues, and the revenues for each of its several funds;(2) The transactions relating to the adopted budget and appropriations, including the expenditures and encumbrances against each item of appropriations;(3) The transactions relating to the bonded debt; and(4) Such other records as may be necessary to facilitate the operation of the adopted budget and the proper accounting for each item of county expenditure.
