Capital Asset Management System (CAMS) FAQ
What are the major components of CAMS?
- Capital Asset Builder
- Pre-Asset Tagging
- CAMS FIS Documents and Maintenance Screens
- Inventory Process
- Depreciation
- Reconciliation Reports
What Asset Types are handled in CAMS? And how are they added?
- Capital Non-movable includes Art and Museum; Buildings & Building Improvements; Infrastructure; Land; Lease Purchases; Library books. They are created from a monthly summary report. These transactions are added manually using the Add Asset Document. Transactions are identified by the object sub type code which is generated from the object code.
- Capital Movable includes Movable Equipment; Movable Fabrications. Movable equipment transactions are processed in the Capital Asset Builder (CAB). Movable transactions are selected from a table that includes all of the object sub type codes that are loaded into CAB.
- Non Capital assets can be created by organization using the Add Asset Document.