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- Bureau of the Fiscal Service
- Central Accounting Reporting System
- About

# About

## CARS is comprised of several modules which include:

### Account Statement

You can use this module to:

- get a near real-time picture of your agency's  account balances
- generate customized views of your agency's Fund  Balance with Treasury data
- reconcile your agency's account balances

### Access Group (AGroup)

- As a CARS  Administrator, you can restrict a user's privileges in each CAR module to  specific data sets.

### Agency Standard Report (ASR)

- With this module, you can get custom  reports.
- GWA operations  also uses this module to get custom reports, ad-hoc reports, and CARS  reconciliation reports.

### Agency Transaction Module (ATM)

- This  module gives you an automated process for creating, approving, and reviewing  transactions, both authoritative and agency transactions through Classification  Transaction and Accountability (CTA) components

### Budget Report Services (BRS)

This module is used  to:

- automate the budget realignment with the Office of Management and Budget
- meet the  legislative requirement for budgetary reporting by producing the Combined  Statement
- produces  the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) from CARS, which summarizes the financial  activities of the federal government and off-budget federal entities in  accordance with the Budget of the U.S. Government

### Bank Transaction Module (BTM)

With this module, you can:

- process bank information from source systems and the Federal Reserve Bank
- reconcile the Book and Bank view of the US Government cash position
- support Straight-Through processing

### Central Accounting Front-End (CAFÉ)

This module:

- manages  the information exchange between CARS and the source feeder systems
- acts  as the control point for data sent into the Central Accounting System

### CARS Interface (CARI)

This module:

- provides  system to system interfaces for data moving from CARS to external customers
- sends  data to and receives from the General Ledger

### Check  Issue Audit (CIA):

You use this module to:

- see discrepancies in data between what your  agency reports and what the Treasury Check Information System (TCIS) reports  about which checks have been paid
- get detailed reports of these discrepancies

### Homepage

From the home page, you can:

- get to all CARS modules
- submit updates to "Notices" and "System  Alerts"

### Organization Account Directory (OAD)

As an Operational User, you use this module to:

- update specific Legislation, Account, and ALC  information needed to support the Agency Transaction Module and the Central Accounting  Front-End module
- look at and search data

### Operations Support Services (OSS)

As a CARS Administrator, you use this module to:

- track and resend transactions from the Agency  Transaction Module
- do back-end administrative tasks, monitor what  the system is doing, and view audit logs

### Statement of Difference (SOD)

You use this module to:

- see discrepancies between what your agency  reports and what the source system you are drawing from reports
- get detailed reports of these discrepancies

Last modified 01/22/20

Central Accounting Reporting System

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