Estimating Fringe Benefit Rates

Posted July 21, 2011 in Management Accounting and Analysis.

Cost Accounting released a memo effective August 1, 2011 which concerns estimating fringe benefits on grant applications and contract proposals. This memo supersedes the previous memo of April 13, 2006.

Fringe Benefit Rate Memo (Effective Aug 1, 2011)

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Management Reports Available

Posted July 19, 2011 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged .

The Web Management Reports available via the CIS are now available.

  • Summary data includes all Journals that posted before 9:30am on Monday, July 18
  • Beginning balances for July 2011 are current
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JUNE ACCOUNTING MONTH CLOSED

Posted July 14, 2011 in Controller, Financial Reporting and Accounting and tagged .

The accounting month of June is closed.

The process to create the beginning balances for July will run Friday night/Saturday morning. Therefore, the beginning balances for July will not appear on your Management Reports until Monday morning.

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July Momentum Newsletter is now available

Posted July 6, 2011 in Financial Services and tagged .

The Momentum Newsletter is published quarterly and is meant for the use and benefit of the University of Utah Campus Community. Follow the links from this page to see the full articles…

A full Printable Version of this newsletter is also available to forward to your colleagues.

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July 2011

We encourage departments to share this info with persons in your departments during staff meetings, emails or other departmental communications methods.

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e-Journal Training for New Preparers

Posted July 5, 2011 in Financial Reporting and Accounting and tagged , .

e-Journal training for new preparers can now be done at your desk and at your convenience.

If you aren’t using the e-Journal application to prepare your journal entries and would like security access to use the application, follow these steps:

  1. Log on to CIS and click on the “e-Journal Entry” link in the “Processing” section of Financial & Business Services.
  2. In the “Help and Documentation” section (lower left), click on “Preparer’s Guide” and read the ENTIRE guide.
  3. After reading the guide, click on “New Preparer Questionnaire” and answer all the questions. This will help central administration determine if you have sufficient knowledge to use the application.
  4. Email the completed questionnaire to Financial Reporting & Accounting at .
  5. Complete the “Preparer Security Access/Update” form.
  6. After your answers on the questionnaire have been reviewed, you will be notified by email when you have been granted access.

After you start using the application, if you have questions, first refer to the “Preparer’s Guide”. If you then cannot find an answer to your question, use the “Questions or Suggestions” link on the e-Journal home page to ask your question.

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Accounts Payable: Fiscal Year Close

Posted July 1, 2011 in Accounts Payable.

Please note that Wednesday, July 6 is the deadline for receipt of all Fiscal Year 2011 documents in the Accounts Payable office, 145 Park.
All transactions to be included in FY2011 should be received by 5:00pm, Wednesday, July 6.

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Journal Processing

Posted June 28, 2011 in Financial Reporting and Accounting.

We have made headway resolving the problem with processing journal entries. We are currently caught up and have posted all journals that are available to be posted, including payroll. The Management Reports, as of this morning (June 28th), are up-to-date.

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e-Journal Unavailable – Updated

Posted June 24, 2011 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Grants and Contracts Accounting and tagged .

Due to system issues, e-Journal is temporarily unavailable.  We are working to restore e-Journal as quickly as possible.

e-Journal is now available.

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Issue with Journal Processing

Posted June 24, 2011 in Financial Reporting and Accounting, Grants and Contracts Accounting, Payroll and tagged .

We are experiencing a problem with processing any journal entries in PeopleSoft. As a consequence, the June 15th payroll journal has not been posted. We are working on the problem and will post all journals as soon as possible. Stay tuned.

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CIS Financial Applications Unavailable June 17 at 5pm through June 19

Posted June 8, 2011 in Financial Services.

Maintenance will be performed on the Financial Applications in the Campus Information System (CIS) starting Friday, June 17 at 5 pm.  Maintenance is scheduled to be complete Sunday, June 19 at Noon.

This will impact many of the FS web applications in the FS pagelet as well as the financial applications in the FS Database.

Non-Financial applications will still be available in CIS.

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