Understanding the GTAS Adjusted Trial Balance System

The Government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) is used to report agency trial balance data. A single data collection system improves the quality of financial data by combining budgetary and proprietary trial balance reporting, enforcing the USSGL, and implementing new edits and validations. Additionally, GTAS paves the way for more consistent and complete financial data and allows for better analytical reporting.

GTAS accepts only bulk file transmission for the full budgetary and proprietary trial balance data and:

• Interfaces daily with GWA Central Accounting System for balance and transaction data.

• Is available for agency use 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

• Will produce the USSGL Treasury Financial Manual (TFM) starting in 2014. The 2014 TFM will include more detailed information, including the allowable domain values for each attribute-to-USSGL account relationship, new sections for validations and edits, SMAF, and bulk file format.

• Only accepts the component TAS, a 6-digit USSGL account, and a 3-digit Agency ID.