Accounting. The Department of Finance (Finance) is charged with the responsibility for devising the state s uniform accounting system and for setting statewide fiscal and accounting policies and procedures pursuant to Government Code sections 13300 and 13310 respectively. Coordination of the system of accounts kept by the individual state departments with the central accounts kept by the State Controllerâs Office (SCO). 2  Uniform and consistent accounting and reporting among all state departments. 3  Consistency between accounting and budgeting procedures.
The most staggering aspect of this data is that California is, at the same time, the state with the highest poverty rate in the US, based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) criterion, with an average of 23.8 percent for the years 2010-2014.
Eight of the ten highest-income places in California were in Northern California and the San Francisco bay area, with two Los Angeles County cities: Hidden Hills and Rolling Hills. Diablo had the highest per capita income of any place in California ($161,436). The ten lowest income places in California by per capita income were small, inland communities, none of which had a population of over 2,000.