The following steps are to assist the agencies in the preparation and submission of the Fiscal Year 2025 Agency Financial Reports/Performance and Accountability. Please include all required documents to complete your submission. AGA will contact the agency’s point-of-contact should the packet received be incomplete.

To assist the review team, agencies are requested to submit, with their AFR/PAR, one copy of the guidelines to which you adhered, detailing on which pages of your AFR/PAR the requirements in the guidelines are addressed. Completing and submitting a copy of the guidelines in this manner helps the agency ensure it has included each of the appropriate items of information in the report and helps the reviewers readily locate the required items. Event Overview

Follow the FY2025 CEAR Program Guidelines (Final) when preparing AFR/PAR reports. Download a helpful AFR/PAR style guide here.

Completed CEAR application for your agency. 

An original letter signed by your agency’s chief financial officer or equivalent-level official requesting that your report be reviewed by the Certificate of Excellence in Accountability Reporting program.

A digital copy/URL to the report is requested in addition to:

Two printed copies of your AFR/PAR (a signed, print-ready copy is acceptable).

Two printed copies responding to last year’s recommendations — If your agency participated in the program the prior year, we strongly encourage your agency to make six copies of a letter responding to each of last year’s recommendations for strengthening the AFR/PAR. Excellence in AFR/PAR is an evolving process.

Optional:

The CEAR program highly encourages all agency applicants to provide names of experienced individuals representing the CFOs, inspectors general and other officers who participated in performance activities from participating agency who are available to serve as program reviewers.