Upcoming Changes for the Central Accounting Reporting System (CARS)

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Timeline & CARS Reporters Status

New Modules

Enrollment

Account Statement Functionality Changes

CARS Reporting 

Upcoming Training 

Help 

Questions

Agenda

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CARS System of Record (SoR) cutover weekend

CARS becomes Treasury’s official system of record 

No longer not able to view the details of the last calendar day’s transactions

Can pull those details anytime after CARS becomes the SoR and forward

Those details now become official data, whereas when STAR was SoR only the Summary (TAS/BETC level) data was official

CARS Availability 

Timeline	

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CARS Conversion Dashboard

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Agency Standard Reports (ASR) provides the ability for agencies to pull reports for accounts that they use. 

Statement of Difference (SOD) will replace the GOALS II/IAS Statement of Difference (SOD) system, Treasury’s legacy reporting system and is used to compare ALC accountability information reported by agencies with ALC transaction information reported via Source Systems. 

Check Issue Audit (CIA) allows Federal Program Agencies (FPAs) to view their Agency Location Codes (ALCs) for the purpose of identifying out of balance conditions between agency and source system reporting.  This information will no longer be emailed or mailed to users.  

New Modules

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In order to access the new modules, users from eligible agencies must have: 

access to the CARS application; and 

the module role added to their CARS user account 

***Please note that access to the new modules will not be automatically granted to existing CARS users. 

https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/cars/getting-started.html

Enrollment

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Provisional view becomes Accounting view

Accounting view and Published view remain to facilitate FBWT reconciliation 

Enhanced Functionality in the Account Statement

Ability to download reports (including last day details)

Reclassify in subsequent months (at the transaction level)

Account Statement Functionality Changes

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New Account/ALC Statement View

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Transaction level detail will be available in the accounting view going forward, including the month of the cutover from our legacy system

CARS reporter transitioning continues May 2015 and beyond for ALL remaining ALCs

Scorecarding procedures remain unchanged at this time for reclassification

CARS Reporting

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E-learn documents will be posted to website (including screen shots)

https://fiscal.treasury.gov/training/cars-webinar-and-demo-whats-new.html

Drop in sessions March 2, March 9 and March 10

Additional Drop in sessions in April

GWA is working on detailed training for

TAS/BETC 

Reclassification 

System Defaults

Training

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Help

Contact Treasury Support Center

Phone: (877) 440-9476

Email:  gwa@stls.frb.org

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Questions

Treasury Support Center (877) 440-9476

Customer Relationship Management 

gwa.crmd.users@fiscal.treasury.gov

Director - Carolann Marker 

Carolann.Marker@fiscal.treasury.gov

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