FMS Payment Modernization Technical Session

Who Should Participate:

• Individuals who have direct knowledge of the current format used to send payment information to FMS
• Individuals responsible for making programming changes to your payment files
• Subject matter experts who understand the payment processes.

Recommendation: Participants should review documents listed in the links below prior to meeting participation.

Why You Should Participate:

FMS is conducting a one day session to include detailed walkthroughs of Government Wide Accounting (GWA) Treasury Account Symbol – Business Event Type Code (TAS-BETC) requirements, Secure Payment System (SPS) 440 format and Payment Automation Manager (PAM) Standard Payment Request (SPR).

This walkthrough is a follow-up to the memo sent by the Commissioner of FMS dated January, 14, 2011, to all CFOs and Deputy CFO’s informing agencies of the requirement to convert to the SPR and become GWA reporters by October 2014.

In an effort to assist FMS customers, GWA, SPS and PAM will be reviewing data elements, validations and agency specific information that agencies must use to submit payment requests to FMS in the future.

Topics:

• GWA, SPS and PAM overviews
  
  
• Mandate for all agencies to use the PAM standard file format and become GWA reporters by October 2014
  http://fms.treas.gov/ccmm/final-CFO-letter-01-14-11.pdf
  
  
• GWA TAS-BETC (string format) crosswalk to STAR TAS
  http://fms.treas.gov/gwa/star_tas.html
  
  
• SPS data specifications for uploading schedules for GWA reporters (440 Format)
  http://fms.treas.gov/sps/Schedule-Upload-440-File-Format.pdf
  
  
• PAM SPR format for providing detailed TAS-BETC on each payment record.
  http://fms.treas.gov/pam/input_file_specifications.pdf
  
  

Available Dates for Participation:

Note: There is no charge to attend these sessions; however, lunch is not provided.

Conference call connection will not be available.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.