Accounts 61400 - 61419, previously titled “Equip-Insurable $1,000-$4,999″, has been changed to “Equip-Non Capitl $1,000-$4,999″.

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Effective October 1, 2009, the Limited Purchase Check (LPC) program will be restricted to payments to human subjects.  After this date, LPC’s cannot be used for anything other than human subjects payments.  Please follow this link for more information on this change.  For questions on implementing this change or for guidance on alternative procurement methods, please contact Accounts Payable

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The Direct Deposit (ACH) payment option has been available to University employees since 2005. We recently simplified the rules for authorizing this electronic payment method and revised the form for employee sign up. Employees interested in accelerating their travel and expense reimbursements can now sign up for Direct Deposit by using their Payroll Direct Deposit account information without having to provide a blank check, deposit form or bank statement as proof of ownership. The details and authorization form can be found on the Accounts Payable Direct Deposit web page.  If you have any questions,

As reported in an earlier news post, the Financial Web Apps (located in the FBS pagelet and FBS Admin pagelet) in the Campus Information System have moved to a different WEB Server.

As of today, March 13, 2009, ALL OLD Bookmarks  for  all U of U Web Applications (urls begin with www.acs.utah.edu/prod/financials, www.acs.utah.edu/prod/bin, and www.acs.utah.edu/prod/hrbin) will not work! 

Since these applications are all located inside the CIS, it is always best to select the desired application from the appropriate CIS menu. 

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When trying to access documents (using the spyglass)  from Management Reports, some users are receiving an error. The error is:

Fatal error: Call to a member function Execute() on a non-object in C:\Web\htdocs\Fortis.class.php on line 73

***Update***  A work around is available!!  Click here for information on how to retrieve your document. 

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We are working to resolve this.  Watch for updates on the FBS Web Application Status Page  =>  

A new page has been added to the FBS Web presence that will allow users to know of any issues with FBS Web Applications.  If known, issues are listed on the new page. If you are experiencing any issue not listed, a link exists on the page to report the issues to FBS.  The link to the new page is a picture of a lifesaver (below). This lifesaver has been strategically placed in various places in the FBS Web presence as well as the FBS pagelet in CIS.

Hyperlinks have been added to Management Reports and other web applications. These hyperlinks on column titles and labels, link to references explaining that particular topic and will help the user understand and use Management Reports as it was designed. How you will notice these references, they are red!  The Orgid lookup, Activity lookup and Project lookup pages now have dynamic column sorting.  A “sorting arrow” is located at the bottom of the column header which can be used to sort the page by that column.  This will make it easier for users to review the information on the screen without having to download to an Excel file.

The Financial Web Server has experienced intermittent problems the last few weeks. Some of the applications affected by this were: Management Reports, Limited Purchase Checks, PO applications and others. Your patience while we attempted to solve the problems is appreciated. Thanks to the diligence and hard work of the ACS team, we believe these issues have been resolved. Please continue to notify us in the future of any issues with the Financial Web Applications by clicking here.

A new WEB Server now hosts the University Financial Applications (Management Reports, Chartfield Lookups, etc.). This change should be transparent to the End-User.

Please contact someone in Financial and Business Services immediately if you experience any problems. 

Financial and Business Services is excited to announce the addition of the “Payment Card Acceptance/eCommerce” pages to its Web Presence.  You can view the new content at http://fbs.admin.utah.edu/index.php/payment_card.  This additional information will be helpful for departments across the University,  as they engage in business transactions using either Payment Cards or eCommerce.