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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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State Auditor’s Visit

Posted February 3, 2009 in Controller, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Management Accounting and Analysis and tagged .

Click here to view a memo from Theresa Ashman, University Controller, regarding the upcoming visits from the State Auditor’s Office.

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Problem Viewing 2009 Campus Orders

Posted January 22, 2009 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support and tagged , .

A problem has been reported with viewing the scanned image of each 2009 Campus Order on the Journal Detail Management Report. Please click the “FS Lifesaver” for updates on this and other Financial WEB issues. We apologize for any inconvenience … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Column Sorting in Journal Detail Search

Posted January 13, 2009 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged , .

Journal Detail Search now has dynamic column sorting. A “sorting arrow” is located at the bottom of the column header which can be used to sort the results by that column. This will make it easier for users to review … Continue reading →

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Improvements to Web Financial Applications – Going Red!!!

Posted December 23, 2008 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged , .

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 … Continue reading →

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2008 University of Utah Annual Financial Report

Posted December 17, 2008 in Controller, Financial Reporting and Accounting and tagged .

The 2008 University of Utah Annual Financial Report is available on the Controller’s website. Reports for prior years are also available. Printed copies of the 2008 report will be available early in January.

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Copies of General Journal Entries

Posted December 16, 2008 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged , .

The University continues to invest substantial resources to provide web tools to assist departments in accomplishing their mission. One such tool, implemented some time ago, is the “spyglass” image on the web Management Reports which allows the user to view … Continue reading →

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Many Older Endowments Still Not Invested In Endowment Pool

Posted December 11, 2008 in Endowment & Investment Accounting, Financial Reporting and Accounting.

In 1991, the University created the Endowment Investment Pool (Pool). At that time, the University’s Board to Trustees (Board) required that all subsequently established endowments must be invested in the Pool. For endowments in existence when the Pool was created, … Continue reading →

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Endowment Projections – Q1 FY 2009

Posted December 9, 2008 in Endowment & Investment Accounting, Financial Reporting and Accounting.

The ending quarter endowment pool unit market value for September 30, 2008, is $187.62 per unit. This information is necessary for Method 2 of projecting endowment income and is provided quarterly through FS News. All other factors in the instructions … Continue reading →

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Financial Web Server Issues Resolved

Posted December 4, 2008 in Accounts Payable, Financial Reporting and Accounting, Financial Services Technical Support, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Income Accounting, Payment Card Acceptance/E-Commerce, Procurement and Supply Management, Property Accounting, Purchasing Card.

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. … Continue reading →

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