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.
Overall, people living in the nationâs least obese states tend to be wealthier. In Hawaii, 19 percent of residents are obese, and only 10.8 percent of folks live in poverty. And in Colorado, the second-slimmest state with 20.3 percent people classified as obese, 13 percent of residents live in poverty. The correlation isnât always clear-cut, however. The outlier in the most obese states is Iowa. Its poverty rate of 12.7 percent is below the national average. Meanwhile, Californiaâs obesity rate is relatively low when compared with Mississippiâs, but its 16.8 percent poverty rate is above the national average.