This course helps agency personnel understand the methods FMS is using to integrate data collected through multiple reporting systems; helps agency personnel learn where to ?nd information in the FMS systems that will help them do their accounting and reporting: reinforces the importance of the U.S. Standard General Ledger and the role it plays in improvong the consistency of agency reporting: and, improves the quality of the Financial Report of the U.S. Government (FR) by improving the consistency of agency reporting.
The major topics include: The course is scenario-based.
Follow the activities of a couple of Treasury Account Symbols through sereval accounting events.
Post those events to USSGL accounts, prepare trial balances, and edit our amounts against data from the central accounting system.
Working in teams, and sharing of thoughts is encouraged.
Who should attend:
Students should be federal accountants with a good working knowledge of the USSGL. Those who prepare reports for Treasury and OMB (FACTS I and II and GFRS), for example, should be especially interested in attending