Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63J > Chapter 1 > Part 9 - Government Performance Reporting and Efficiency Process

• Agency: means a unit of accounting, typically associated with a department, division, board, council, committee, institution, office, bureau, or other similar administrative unit of state government, that includes line items and programs. See Utah Code 63J-1-102
• Appropriated entity: means any entity that receives state funds. See Utah Code 63J-1-902
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Funding item: means an increase to an agency's state funding that:

  (i)	is $50,000 or more; and

  (ii)

  results from action during a legislative session. See Utah Code 63J-1-902 Government process: means a set of functions and procedures by which an appropriated entity creates a product or service. See Utah Code 63J-1-902 Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto). Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Performance measure: means a program objective, effectiveness measure, program size indicator, or other related measure. See Utah Code 63J-1-902 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Product or service: means an appropriated entity's final output or outcome. See Utah Code 63J-1-902 Program: means a unit of accounting included on a schedule of programs within a line item used to track budget authorizations, collections, and expenditures on specific purposes or functions. See Utah Code 63J-1-102 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5