About CARS Modules

CARS is comprised of several modules which include:

Account Statement

You can use this module to:

• get a near real-time picture of your agency's account balances
• generate customized views of your agency's Fund Balance with Treasury data
• reconcile your agency's account balances

Access Group (AGroup)

• As a CARS Administrator, you can restrict a user's privileges in each CARS module to specific data sets.

Agency Standard Report (ASR)

• With this module, you can get custom reports.
• GWA operations also uses this module to get custom reports, ad-hoc reports, and CARS reconciliation reports.
• Agency Standard Reports (ASR) Overview
  Tutorial: An overview of the steps involved to generate and schedule agency standard reports.

Agency Transaction Module (ATM)

• This module gives you an automated process for creating, approving, and reviewing both authoritative and agency transactions, through Classification Transaction and Accountability (CTA) components, Authority Services, and Transfers and Non-Cash (TANC)

Budget Report Services (BRS)

This module is used to:

• automate the budget realignment with the Office of Management and Budget
•  meet the legislative requirement for budgetary reporting by producing the Combined Statement
• produces the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS), which summarizes the financial activities of the federal government and off-budget federal entities in accordance with the Budget of the U.S. Government

Bank Transaction Module (BTM)

With this module, you can:

• process bank information from source systems and the Federal Reserve Bank
• reconcile the Book and Bank view of the US Government cash position
• support Straight-Through processing

Central Accounting Front-End (CAFÉ)

This module:

• manages the information exchange between CARS and the source feeder systems
• acts as the control point for data sent into the Central Accounting Reporting System

CARS Interface (CARI)

This module:

• provides system to system interfaces for data moving from CARS to external customers
• sends data to the General Ledger

Check Issue Audit (CIA):

You use this module to:

• see discrepancies in data between what your agency reports and what the Treasury Check Information System (TCIS) reports about which checks have been paid
• get detailed reports of these discrepancies
• Checks Issued Audit (CIA) Overview
  Tutorial: An overview of the steps involved to generate the statement of difference report for checks issued.

Classification: (previously done in the Shared Accounting Module)

You use this module to:

• Add and manage default rules
• Add and update classification rules
• View existing default and classification rules

Homepage

From the home page, you can:

• get to all CARS modules
• submit updates to "Notices" and "System Alerts"

Organization Account Directory (OAD)

As an Operational User, you use this module to:

• update specific Legislation, Account, and ALC information needed to support the Agency Transaction Module and the Central Accounting Front-End module
• look at and search data

Operations Support Services (OSS)

As a CARS Administrator, you use this module to:

• track and resend transactions from the Agency Transaction Module
• do back-end administrative tasks, monitor what the system is doing, and view audit logs

Statement of Difference (SOD)

You use this module to:

• see discrepancies between what your agency reports and what the source system you are drawing from reports
• get detailed reports of these discrepancies
• Statement of Difference (SOD) Overview
  Tutorial: An overview of the steps involved to generate Agency Location Code (ALC) accountability reports.
• Statement of Difference (SOD) Support LIstings Overview
  Tutorial: An overview of the steps involved to generate collection voucher, payment voucher and Intra-governmental Payment and Collection (IPAC) support listing reports.