October,
2006
In this edition:
1. Kuali Project Update
2. Business Community Open Forum - November 2, 2:00-3:30,
SU North
Ballroom
3. Biz.Comm - Best Practices - Business Meeting Expense
Form
4. Frequently Asked Questions - IDB or RFAA?
5. FSO By the Numbers - Payroll
6. Positions Open in FSO
7. Introducing FSO's New Employees
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1. Kuali Project Update
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Friday, October 13th, marked
the day that the baseline modules were available for release. In addition
to the partner schools, 12 schools and vendors, split pretty evenly, have
downloaded Kuali Financials to date .
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Check out the release notes,
technical documentation and user documentation available from the Kuali
Financials Download site at http://kuali.org.
The User Documentation is - well - wow.
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Discussions are underway to
set up an instance of Kuali Financials here in order to complete a
Conference Room Pilot by the end of February - details will be
provided as we have them.
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Arizona is hosting the third
Kuali Days. Kuali Days offers an opportunity to learn about Kuali
Financials from others outside Arizona who have been involved in the
development and functional design. While Kuali Days is intended to give
nonpartner schools and vendors information, this is the first time that it
will be hosted outside Indiana and the first time that it can be easily
attended by members of a partner school who are not currently using
Indiana's Financial Information System (FIS) the basis for Kuali
Financials. Everyone is
invited to attend -
https://www.eventinterface.com/clients/kuali/
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As things wind down from a
whirlwind couple of weeks of testing, documentation preparation and code
clean up, we are preparing for phase 2A development, several functional
groups are completing functional specs, the AP/Purchasing module
maintenance screens have been moved into the test area, the mocks of the
Proposal Routing sheet are nearly final.
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Additional hands on Kuali Lab
sessions will be scheduled in December
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2. Business Community Open Forum - Please join us at the
Business Community Open Forum (BCOF) November 2, 2006, 2:00-3:30, Student
Union North Ballroom. November's forum will feature a visit by President
Shelton and information on the Telecom Funding Model.
See
http://bizcomm.arizona.edu/BCOF.html.
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3. Biz.Comm, Best Practices - Check out the "Business
Meeting Expense Form", the latest addition to the Biz.Comm Best Practices
page. The College of Nursing designed the form to provide documentation
for Business Meeting/Recruitment expense. The form is available as a word
document and may be customized for your department.
http://bizcomm.arizona.edu/BestPractices/
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4. Frequently Asked Questions -
--Your Question: We are working on a project for another department; we
are funding most of the project, however, there were a few items the dept.
wanted to purchase themselves and have us reimburse the cost. This Dept.
is an IDB unit. Can we just send them the IDB for reimbursement or
do we have to use the Request For Accounting Assistance
process?
--Reply: You will need to use a Request for Accounting Assistance to move
the expense from your account to theirs. IDBs should be used for true
sales between departments.
FSO maintains a database of frequently asked questions. Visit our FAQ page
at
http://www.fso.arizona.edu/fso/fm/faq.asp to review previously asked
questions, search by category or keyword, or ask a question of your own.
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5. FSO By the Numbers - In Fiscal Year 2005/06 FSO
processed $670 million in gross payroll, $435 million in net pay and $235
million in deductions
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6. Positions Open in FSO
Position Title: Assistant Director, Financial Services
Department: FSO -Admin
Job Number: 36127
Position Title: Office Specialist, Senior - 2 positions
Department: 7703-FSO-Operations
Job Number: 36337
To review the posting, go to
https://www.uacareertrack.com/, click
"Search Postings" on the bar on the left, and search for the specific
Job Number.
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7. Introducing FSO's New Employees:
Cathy Bates, Assistant Director, Information Technology Services
Daniel Mayhew, Electronic Field Services Technician, CatCard Office
Contact: Kymber
Horn
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