About GTAS

The Governmentwide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS) is a system of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service used to report agency trial balance data. Entities, including agencies, use GTAS to provide proprietary financial reporting information and information about budget execution to the Department of the Treasury.

GTAS combines budgetary and proprietary balances to report an agency's trial balance while enforcing the USSGL, and implementing 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. GTAS interfaces daily with the GWA Central Accounting System (CARS) for balance and transaction data and is available for agency use 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

The following illustration and the steps that follow it describe the GTAS process flow in U.S. Federal Financials:

1. Configure USSGL accounts, USSGL account attributes, fund attributes, federal attributes, federal account attributes, and federal attribute supplemental rules.
2. Enter transactions using the federal attributes configured in Step 1.
3. Run the GTAS Accumulation process. This process retrieves data from the GL journal tables, associates the data with the GTAS attributes, and then uploads the data to the U.S. Federal Financials GTAS balance tables.
4. Review the GTAS balances data. If there are incorrect source data or attributes, make the changes and then run the GTAS Accumulation process again.
5. Run the Create GTAS Bulk File process. This process creates the GTAS bulk file which federal agencies can submit to Treasury.