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.
The borough with the highest rate of child poverty in the capital is Tower Hamlets in east London, where 49% of children are poor. Richmond upon Thames has the lowest rate in London with 15%. In 15 of the 33 boroughs between one third and a half of children are poor, the study found.