The state board of accounts shall formulate, prescribe, and install a system of accounting and reporting in conformity with this chapter for use by an audited entity, which must comply with the following:

1. (1) Be uniform for every public office and every public account of the same class and contain written standards that an entity that is subject to audit must observe.
2. (2) Exhibit true accounts and detailed statements of funds collected, received, obligated, and expended for or on account of the public for any and every purpose whatever, and by all public officers, employees, or other individuals.
3. (3) Show the receipt, use, and disposition of all public property and the income, if any, derived from the property.
4. (4) Show all sources of public income and the amounts due and received from each source.

5. (5) Show all receipts, vouchers, contracts, obligations, and other documents kept, or that may be required to be kept, to prove the validity of every transaction.

   The state board of accounts shall formulate or approve all statements and reports necessary for the internal administration of the office to which the statements and reports pertain. The state board of accounts shall approve all reports that are published or that are required to be filed in the office of state examiner. The state board of accounts shall from time to time make and enforce changes in the system and forms of accounting and reporting as necessary to conform to law.

   Formerly: Acts 1909, c.55, s.2; Acts 1945, c.176, s.2. As amended by Acts 1980, P.L.30, SEC.2; P.L.3-1986, SEC.8; P.L.39-1996, SEC.2; P.L.176-2009, SEC.2; P.L.157-2020, SEC.2.