GTAS ... What’s New! June 29, 2011 

Volume 1, Issue 3 

Financial Management Service, Governmentwide Accounting 

More Reporting Periods 

8000 Series USSGL Accounts 

In this issue 

OMB is increasing the 

frequency of 

FACTSII/SF 133 

reporting from four 

times a year to seven 

times a year effective 

FY 2012. The 

additional reporting 

will occur in December 

(November data), 

August (July data) and 

September (August 

data). 

OMB is doing this to 

meet the intense 

demand from both 

Congress and the 

Administration for 

information on 

unobligated balances. 

Congress needs the upto-date information in 

considering across-theboard rescissions. The 

administration needs 

it to evaluate 

legislative proposals 

and OMB needs it to 

ensure that agencies 

have sufficient 

resources to meet 

mission needs. 

What does this mean 

for GTAS? GTAS will 

go into production in 

December 2012 instead 

of January 2013. And 

just like FACTS II, 

GTAS will have seven 

reporting periods. 

The revised version of 

OMB circular A-11 will 

be available 

electronically in July 

2011. 

GTAS Goes Live 

December 2012!!! 

• Reporting periods 

increasing to 7 in FY 

2012 

• Memorandum 

USSGLS 

• Trading Partner and 

Fed/NFed will not be 

required for 

budgetary transfer 

USSGLs in GTAS 

• Join us at the FMS 

Conference 

Agencies are required 

to report the 8000 

series memorandum 

USSGL accounts in 

GTAS but not all of 

them. Any 8000 series 

 that is 

reserved for agency 

use will not be 

reported. The credit 

reform memo accounts 

will not be required 

because the USSGL 

plans to discontinue 

these accounts before 

GTAS goes into 

production. 

account

The memo USSGL 

accounts that you will 

report in GTAS are: 

8101 Partial or Early 

Cancellation of 

Authority 

8102 Offset for Partial 

or Early Cancellation 

of Authority 

8801 Offset for 

Purchases of Assets 

8802 Purchases of 

Property, Plant, and 

Equipment 

8803 Purchases of 

Inventory and Related 

Property 

8804 Purchases of 

Assets – Other 

Individual Highlights 

More Reporting Periods 1 

8000 Series USSGL 

Accounts 1 

The six memorandum 

account that can be 

reported in GTAS are 

self balancing so debits 

must equal credits to 

pass the GTAS edits. 

Budgetary SGLs and TP 2 

FMS Conference 2 

Team Member Profile 2 

The GTAS Attribute 

Table on the GTAS 

website at 

www.fms.treas.gov/gta

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 Budgetary USSGLs and Trading Partner 

The FMS Conference 

GTAS Team Member Profile 

Join us on August 2nd

and 3rd in Washington 

D.C. for the 21st

Annual Government 

Financial Management 

Conference sponsored 

by FMS. You will learn 

about the latest 

developments in 

financial practices, 

obtain updates on 

reporting 

requirements and hear 

from dynamic financial 

leaders. 

The conference 

includes plenary 

sessions, keynote 

addresses and 

breakout sessions. And 

don’t miss the 

networking reception 

and the corporate and 

government exhibits. 

The conference topics 

include 

● The GWA Modern- 

 ization project

● FASAB Update 

● Transparency in 

Government 

● Strategic Planning 

● USSGL and OMB 

Updates 

● GTAS 

● Finding the leader in 

You 

For registration and 

more conference 

information, go to 

http://fms.treas.gov/tas

/conference/annconf.ht

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This month we are 

congratulating 

Shannon Redding the 

GTAS Deputy Project 

Manager for earning 

her Project 

Management 

Professional (PMP) 

certificate. In addition 

to passing the written 

exam, Shannon 

accrued 4500 hours of 

project management 

experience and 

completed 35 hours of 

class work to earn her 

certificate. As the 

GTAS Deputy Project 

manager Shannon is in 

charge of all GTAS 

requirements. She 

works with the 

operational areas and 

programmers to 

ensure everything in 

development works 

right. Shannon is from 

Virginia Beach and is 

a graduate of Virginia 

Tech. 

OMB is changing the 

reporting requirement 

for direct transfer 

agency and account 

information on the 

budgetary transfer 

USSGL accounts. 

Agencies are required 

currently in FACTS II 

to report direct 

transfer agency and 

direct transfer account 

with the budgetary 

transfer USSGLs. 

This requirement will 

remain in effect 

through year end 2012. 

Beginning in FY 2013 

OMB will no longer 

require this 

information for the 

budgetary transfer 

accounts. 

The change will affect 

GTAS. The equivalent 

attributes in GTAS are 

trading partner agency 

identifier and main 

account. We will 

update the GTAS 

attribute table by 

removing trading 

partner agency ID, 

main account and 

Federal/Non Federal 

as required attributes 

for the budgetary 

transfer USSGL 

accounts. 

Look for the updated 

GTAS attribute table 

in the official 2013 

Financial Reporting 

TFM coming in 

September 2011. If you missed the GTAS 

webinar, listen to the 

recorded version on the 

GTAS website. Go to 

http://fms.treas.gov/gta 

s/training.html – GTAS 

Webinar Presentation