The United States Army Finance Corps is a combat service support

Combat service support

Combat service support is a subset of military logistics. Combat service support is more limited in depth than logistics, as it primarily addresses those factors directly influencing combat operations.-United States Army:...

 (CSS) branch of the United States Army

United States Army

The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...

. The Finance Corps is the successor to the old Pay Department, which was created in June 1775. The Finance Department was created by law on 1 July 1920 http://www.finance.army.mil/hiscorps.htm. It became the Finance Corps in 1950. It is responsible for financial operations, most notably payroll

Payroll

In a company, payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. In accounting, payroll refers to the amount paid to employees for services they provided during a certain period of time. Payroll plays a major role in a company for several reasons...

 and contracting. It is the smallest branch of the army http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/finance.htm.

External links

• Finance Corps page
• Insignia