Plan of Financial Adjustment (PFA): This is the plan proposed by a department, accepted by the Department of Finance, and acknowledged by the State Controller's Office (SCO), to allow the SCO to assign costs paid from one item to one or more than one items within a department's appropriations. The PFA might be employed, for illustration, to permit the department to pay all the administrative costs out of its main item and then to transfer the suitable costs to the right items for their share of the costs paid. The SCO transfers the funds on receipt of a letter (that is, transaction request) from the department stating the amount (sum) to be transferred based on the criteria for cost distribution in the accepted PFA.