Accounting Services Forms

Use the links below to access the forms and agreements you will need to set up or use Federal Reserve Accounting Services. Accounting Services Setup provides more details and guidance on the steps required to begin using a new service or to modify current services or access. If you are unable to locate the form you seek, Contact provides a comprehensive list of service and support contacts who can assist you.

Table of Contents

• Certificate of Resolution and Authorized Approver Packages
• Operating Circular 1 (OC 1) and Account Structure Guide Forms
• Accounting Information Services Forms
• Merger Worksheet and Instructions
• Other Accounting Services Forms

Effective September 2024, a subset of Accounting forms were moved to a new electronic signature process using Docusign ® and ID.me ® . View the Docusign and ID.me FAQs and Resources page for more information. If you have any questions, please contact National Accounting and Customer Support at (800) 309-6156 or sys.fso.nacs@mpls.frb.org.

Certificate of Resolution and Authorized Approver Packages

This list includes contact names, phone numbers and mailing addresses for each of the Federal Reserve Bank Districts.

This document ensures that the Federal Reserve Bank accepts instructions only from those individuals a Federal Reserve Bank customer authorizes to transact business.

This document will serve as a legal basis for identifying those who have the authority to designate individuals that can take actions and bind your institution as they relate to your use of Federal Reserve Bank accounts or services.

These documents will serve as the foundation for establishing your institution's authority to bind your institution's actions as they relate to your institution's use of Federal Reserve services.

These documents will serve as the foundation for establishing your bank's authority to bind your bank's actions as they relate to your bank's use of Federal Reserve services.

Operating Circular 1 (OC 1) and Account Structure Guide (ASG) Forms

This form should be used when establishing correspondent or respondent relationships for transaction and service fee settlement relationships.

A pass-through relationship allows a nonmember respondent to hold its required reserve balances with another institution (correspondent) that maintains a master account with a Reserve Bank. To establish a pass-through relationship, both the correspondent and the respondent institutions must complete a Pass-through Agreement.

This form should be used to establish Debit and Credit transaction activity reporting needs for Other Secondary RTNs.

This form should be used by Service Providers to designate a Financial Institution to settle service fees.

Accounting Information Services Forms

The instructions provide details related to the various information tools and services your institution can subscribe to that will assist with daily position management and account reconcilement.

This form is used to establish a daily Statement of Account and monthly Statement of Service Charges for Respondents and Secondary RTNs. It is also used for Master Accounts to establish machine readable data and/or spreadsheet files for the daily Statement of Account and monthly Statement of Service Charges.

This form is used for Master Accounts to establish intra-day machine readable data and spreadsheet statement files, a Correspondent/Respondent report, and/or the ability to download intra-day search results in a spreadsheet format.

Merger Worksheet and Instructions

This document provides instructions for completing the Merger Worksheet, which serves as a formal authorization from the Financial Institution(s) to the Federal Reserve Bank to perform the updates and changes described within as it relates to a legal and/or operational merger of Financial Institutions.

This worksheet will serve as a formal authorization from the Financial Institution(s) to the Federal Reserve Bank to perform the updates and changes described within as it relates to a legal and/or operational Merger of Financial Institutions. For assistance with completing this worksheet please refer to the Merger Instructions listed above and by contacting the Surviving Institution's District Merger Coordinator. Contact information for each District's Merger Coordinator is included in the Merger Instructions document.

Other Accounting Services Forms

This form should be used to provide an initial list of participants to verify eligibility and to provide a final list of confirmed participants.

The Excess Balance Account Agreement and Appendix A should be completed by the agent to establish an excess balance account with the Federal Reserve Banks. Appendix A should be completed to add participants to the excess balance account, while Appendix B should be completed to remove participants from the excess balance account

This form is required for electronic processing of confirmation requests for Account Balance and Capital Stock information from Audit Entities.

For a quicker response, please submit external auditor requests for Federal Reserve Account balances, Capital Stock, Treasury Services, Discount Window Loan and Collateral, and Fedwire Securities account holdings through Confirmation.com. For your audit firm to utilize Confirmation.com, please complete the Authorization to Release Information to Accounting Firms (Information Release Form). Please note, the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, New York, Richmond, and St. Louis do not accept requests for Discount Window Loan or Collateral information through Confirmation.com; therefore, these requests will need to be in writing. If a request must be submitted in writing, this form must be used and will be directed to the appropriate business lines, as applicable. Confirmation requests for Discount Window Loan and Collateral information from the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, New York, Richmond and St. Louis should be sent to those local Reserve Banks.