GTAS Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System
Overview Key information TAS Level Attributes Bulk File Notes Validations and Edits Year-end Transactions Proprietary Balances in a Canceled TAS
Streamlines reporting requirements for agencies by replacing FACTS I, FACTS II, IRAS and IFCS trial balance reporting systems Integrates budgetary and proprietary reporting Enforces USSGL as the foundation of governmentwide accounting Facilitates data consistency and implements editing with the central accounting system Helps to address inconsistent financial statement data Overview
One USSGL trial balance for each TAS -Budgetary and proprietary USSGL data with beginning and ending balances Daily SMAF and FBWT updates from GWA System is open to users 24x7 Bulk File Only – no online data entry Open for testing by agencies in July 2012 Implementation is January 2013 (1 st Qtr. FY 2013) Key Information
All the existing TAS attributes currently in FACTSII New Attributes –FR Entity –Financial Receipt Type –Budget Sub-Function TAS Level Attributes
CGAC Compliant –Agency identifier is 3 digits –Beginning period of availability is 4 digits –Ending period of availability is 4 digits –USSGL account is 6 digits Program reporting categories and category B program titles will be entered into a module in GTAS. Bulk File Notes
NEW! Program Cost Indicator – the amount of cost or revenue directly or indirectly traceable to programs. NEW! Budgetary Impact Indicator – indicates if there is a budgetary impact Bulk File Notes
Data Validations –Checks each attribute included in each row of data is valid for the USSGL account. Edits –Verifies balances between USSGL accounts –Compares balances with data in central accounting –46 edits total, but only FACTS I and FACTS II edits (as of 4 th qtr 2012) will be fatal Validations & Edits
Cancellations and balance adjustments related to indefinite appropriation authority will be initiated and completed by the agency in the GWA Authority Transaction Module (ATM). GWA ATM will be available for year end transactions for fiscal 2013 in October If the year end transactions are not completed before the GTAS ATB is submitted, the GTAS ATB will fail edits. Year-end Transaction Processing
GTAS will create a canceled TAS for reporting assets related to canceled accounts. A canceled TAS will be created for each fund family based on the proprietary USSGL accounts reported in the ATB at the time of cancellation and verification that a canceled TAS does not already exist at the fund family level. Beg and End POA are removed. FBWT is $0. All other TAS attributes remain unchanged. Proprietary Balances in a Canceled TAS
Increase accuracy of data. Provides daily FBWT balances. CGAC Compliant Available 24x7 Benefits
Business Questions: Rita Cronley Technical Questions: Beth Angerman Additional Information