Author Archives: Carl Larson

Dollars are Green … We NEED your feedback!

Posted March 27, 2009 in Controller, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged , , , .

The following communication went out via email earlier today. If you have already participated in the survey, thank you! You do not need to fill out the survey again. Please feel free in leaving a comment below. If you have … Continue reading →

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Announcing the Financial System Events Page

Posted March 25, 2009 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Payroll and tagged .

Consider the following questions: I wonder if the Accounting Statements have been mailed? <answer> Has the Payroll Journal has been posted to the General Ledger? <answer> When are the Personal Activity Reports (PAR’s) due back? <answer> When was the last … Continue reading →

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Tax Withholding Changes

Posted March 17, 2009 in Payroll, Tax Services and tagged .

As a part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Internal Revenue Service has provided new wage withholding tables. Beginning with the pay period ending 3/15/09, the University will apply the new tables to employees’ income tax … Continue reading →

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EBT Queries re-published to the HR Information Library

Posted March 16, 2009 in Financial Services Technical Support, Payroll and tagged , .

HR is pleased to announce the Employee EBT by Emplid and Employee EBT by Home Dept queries have been re-published to the HR Information Library (read about their removal in the news archives). The issues prompting their removal have been … Continue reading →

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Bookmarking U of U Web Apps

Posted March 13, 2009 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Procurement and Supply Management, Property Accounting, Purchasing Card and tagged .

As reported in an earlier news post, the Financial Web Apps (located in the FS pagelet and FS 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 … Continue reading →

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Endowment Projections

Posted March 12, 2009 in Endowment & Investment Accounting, Financial Reporting and Accounting and tagged .

Financial and Business Services is pleased to offer colleges and departments updated instructions on the two methods for estimating the amount of endowment income expected during the next fiscal year. The necessary factors for doing the calculations will be provided … Continue reading →

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FIL Queries Enhanced with more Filtering Options

Posted March 10, 2009 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged , .

After hearing from several of you, we have added more filtering options to most of the Financial Information Library (FIL) queries. New prompts give users the option to run an Activity or Project report for just a single Account Executive … Continue reading →

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View Paycheck currently unavailable

Posted March 6, 2009 in Payroll.

Payroll information including, View Paycheck option is currently unavailable in CIS. Watch for updates at:

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WACUBO Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City!

Posted February 23, 2009 in Financial Services and tagged , .

As some of you know, the University belongs to an organization known as WACUBO (Western Association of College and University Business Officers)- a professional development organization whose membership consists of folks on the “business” side of University operations. Check out … Continue reading →

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Error when accessing documents in Management Reports ***Updated***

Posted February 20, 2009 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged , .

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 … Continue reading →

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