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COA GAM for NGAs · Phase 1

Every peso traces
back to the authority
to spend it.

Government accounting for Philippine agencies, built on the COA Government Accounting Manual and the UACS Revised Chart of Accounts. One data model carries the full cycle — budget authority, obligation, claim, disbursement, collection — and every posting gets its own Journal Entry Voucher.

  • UACS Revised Chart
  • Per-agency chart adoption
  • Append-only ledger
app.govmate.io/jev/JEV-2027-000481

Source documents

  1. ORS-2027-000184

    Obligation request

    Charged to available allotment

  2. DV-2027-000126

    Disbursement voucher

    Within the obligated amount

  3. PAY-2027-000091

    Payment

    Within available cash authority

Journal entry voucher

Posted

JEV-2027-000481

Journal entry voucher JEV-2027-000481 — account lines with debit and credit amounts
AccountDebitCredit
Accounts Payable250,000.00
Due to BIR — VAT withheld11,160.71
Due to BIR — Income tax withheld4,464.29
Cash — MDS, Regular234,375.00
Totals250,000.00250,000.00
The DV number is never reused as the JEV numberDebits = credits

Master data built on

  • COA GAM for NGAs, Vols. I–III
  • UACS Revised Chart of Accounts
  • COA Circular 2020-001
  • COA Circular 2022-002
  • GAM Vol. II prescribed forms

One data model

Not a folder of forms

Each prescribed form is a view of the same transaction, not a separate screen to re-key. Record the source event once and the registries, journals, ledgers and statements are derived from it.

Expenditure

  1. Annual Plan
  2. Budget Authority
  3. ORS / BURS
  4. Claim / AP
  5. DV
  6. Payment
  7. JEV
  8. Journal
  9. GL / SL
  10. FAR / FS

Every hop keeps its own document number and links back to the one before it, so an auditor can walk the chain in either direction.

Revenue and collections

  1. Revenue Plan
  2. Billing / Assessment
  3. Order of Payment
  4. Collection
  5. Deposit / Remittance
  6. RCD
  7. JEV
  8. CRJ
  9. GL / SL
  10. RROR / FAR 5 / FS

Every hop keeps its own document number and links back to the one before it, so an auditor can walk the chain in either direction.

Generated, never re-encoded

Spec rule 7: registries, journals, ledgers and statements are produced from source transactions. There is no second place to type them.

Prescribed government records and the source transactions each one is derived from
RecordDerived from
RAPALAppropriation + allotment transactions
RAOD — PS / MOOE / FE / COAllotment + ORS + disbursement
RBUDBURS / NBURSA + disbursement
RRORRevenue plan + billing / collection + deposit / remittance
RCDCollection + deposit / remittance links
Cash Receipts JournalPosted collection / RCD JEVs
Stock Card / Supplies LedgerInventory movement subledger
Property / PPE LedgerAsset master + asset transactions
General & Subsidiary LedgersPosted JEV lines
Trial Balance & Financial StatementsGeneral Ledger

Ceilings and controls

Phase 1 spec

What the system refuses

A draft can be saved for review. Approval, posting and payment are what the ceilings govern — each stage bounded by the authority above it, checked before the document can move.

  1. Authorized appropriation

    Original + authorized increases − reductions, withdrawals and reversions

  2. Allotment

    Cumulative allotment ≤ adjusted appropriation

    BC-001

  3. Obligation — ORS

    New obligation ≤ available allotment, per fund, PAP and expense class

    BC-002

  4. Budget utilisation — BURS

    Cumulative adjusted utilisations ≤ adjusted approved budget, on the RBUD chain (spec §2A.2)

  5. Claim / payable

    A difference against the ORS opens a NORSA workflow — it is never silently overridden

    BC-005

  6. Disbursement voucher

    Cumulative claims against the ORS ≤ adjusted ORS obligation

    BC-006

  7. Payment

    Payment ≤ remaining approved DV, and ≤ available NCA / NTA cash authority

    BC-009 · BC-010

  8. JEV → GL / SL

    Total debit = total credit, reconciled to the source transaction

    BC-011 · BC-012

Approved documents are never deleted

A posted government document is cancelled, reversed or adjusted — with immutable history. Destructive delete does not exist as an operation.

Closed periods reject new postings

Only a controlled reopen by the proper authority admits an entry into a closed accounting period.

Collections are classified by substance

Revenue, AR settlement, trust receipt, due-to-another-agency and cash-advance refund are not interchangeable — and collection is a separate event from deposit or remittance.

No posting to header or hierarchy rows

Only configured active posting accounts accept an entry, and an inactive RCA account stays closed even when a sub-object under it is active.

Statutory remittance clears a liability

Remitting to BIR, GSIS, PhilHealth or Pag-IBIG settles a payable already raised — by payroll, or by withholding on a supplier payment. It is never a second expense.

Every posting carries its own JEV number

Operational document numbers and JEV numbers are separate series. Reversals and corrections take new JEV numbers and link back to the original.

Where the build stands

Live today, and what's next

Phase 1 is a multi-module programme and it is not finished. This is the honest split — what an agency can use now, and the order the rest arrives in.

In the product now

Live now

The UACS Revised Chart of Accounts

888 eight-digit posting accounts (828 active) across 5 classes and 30 major groups, with 1,254 object and sub-object rows. Seeded as one national master every agency shares.

Live now

Government regime, per agency

An agency runs on the GAM/UACS chart instead of the commercial one. The regime is stored per company, new companies can be created straight onto the government chart, and the database rejects a commercial section vocabulary on a government company and vice versa.

Partly built

GAM statement classification

Every account carries its GAM section, and the Statement of Financial Performance cascade — surplus/(deficit) from current operations through to surplus for the period — is implemented and tested. It is not yet wired into the Reports screen, which still renders the commercial statement titles.

Partly built

UACS dimension masters

Funding sources, organizations, locations, PAPs, responsibility centers, cash authority and the 7 fund clusters are built, with screens and per-agency access rules. They are not on the live service yet — the migration that creates them is merged and pending deployment.

Partly built

Government fields on the masters

MDS regular, special and trust bank account classes, depository and petty cash accounts, and appointment nature on employees are built and merged, pending the same deployment.

Live now

The ledger underneath

Double-entry posting, an append-only general and subsidiary ledger, period locks with a controlled reopen, and a full audit trail — the engine the government layer posts into.

Phase 1 build order

The specification's own recommended sequence. Most of it is now written and merged — what none of it has yet is a deployment: the live service still runs the masters and the ledger only.

  1. UACS / COA and effective-dated master dataLive now
  2. Annual Plan, Budget Authority and RAPALPartly built
  3. ORS / BURS / NORSA / NBURSA with RAOD and RBUDPartly built
  4. JEV and posting engine over the GL / SL foundationPartly built
  5. Claims and accounts payable, DV, and paymentPartly built
  6. Revenue, billing, AR, Order of Payment, collection, deposit / RCD and RRORPartly built
  7. Payroll accounting and statutory remittancePartly built
  8. Cash advances, liquidation and petty cashPartly built
  9. Inventory and PPE accountingPartly built
  10. Fund transfers, inter-agency and trust transactionsPartly built
  11. Reconciliation, period close and statutory reportingPartly built

Outside Phase 1

Full procurement, BAC processes and PhilGEPS integration, and a full HRIS, are deliberately out of scope. Phase 1 starts at the agency's approved annual financial plan and covers the accounting cycle from there.

Questions, answered

What an auditor will ask

Including the two questions vendors usually avoid: what is actually built, and what this software is not.

For Philippine government agencies

Books your auditor can follow.

Accounts are provisioned for your agency — talk to us about a walkthrough of what is live today and where the rest of Phase 1 stands.