Business & Financial Services

The Accounting Office is pleased to announce training for new travel coordinators on April 11, 2018 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at the UC Intellicenter. The training will cover UC Business & Finance Bulletin G-28 Travel Policy, UCR Policy & Procedure 900-20, the UC Connexxus booking tool, and iTravel (web-based travel reimbursement system). Participants...

Good news! As demonstrated at the 3/14/18 UCRFS User Group meeting, the new ServiceLink FAU Change Request tool is now available. The implementation of UCPath introduced a new way of managing the Full Accounting Units (FAU) associated with salary/benefit expense distributions. Salary FAU changes will be initiated through the FAU Change Request tool, which provides...

As follow up to my February e-mail, the guidance for UCPath related salary cost transfers has been revised. This revision is necessary as the deployment of UCR's Salary Cost Transfer (SCT) Request System has been delayed until April, and payroll transactions processed in December are nearing the 120 day transfer deadline for transfer to a...

An update to the schedule listed below can be found here: http://accounting.ucr.edu/news/20180425-piwrs-prc-rev-dist-sch.html With the transition to the UCPath environment and retirement of the Enterprise Reporting System (ERS), enhancements to the Principal Investigator Web Reporting System (PIWRS) were necessary. The goal of these enhancements is to provide department analysts the flexibility to define FAUs to generate...

With the implementation of UCPath, changes to the Time and Attendance Reporting System (TARS) were necessary. One of the modifications resulted in the simplification of vacation and sick leave types. Concerns were raised that the simplified coding created challenges tracking various leave types for departments, shared services centers and central offices. Therefore, an adjustment is...

There will be a UCRFS Users Group meeting on Wednesday, March 14th from 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. at the Alumni & Visitors Center. The proposed agenda topics include: Accruals & Deferrals: Preparing for Fiscal Closing - Linda Casteel Composite Benefit Rate Overview - Matt Hull Expecting an Incoming Wire? What Accounting Needs to Know...

With the transition of the UCPath environment and retirement of the Enterprise Reporting System (ERS), enhancements to the Principal Investigator Web Reporting System (PIWRS) were necessary and are ready to be deployed in the next few days. The goal of these enhancements is to provide department analysts the flexibility to define FAUs to generate PI-specific...

The next eBuy/Accounts Payable Users Group meeting is scheduled for: Date: Tuesday, March 20th Time: 9:30-11:00 am Location: Alumni & Visitors Center. A meeting agenda will be forwarded by Friday March 9th

TO ALL DEPARTMENTS CURRENTLY BILLING ONLINE THROUGH BANNER: Effective February 16, 2018, the term on Banner will change to 201820 (Spring 2018). Please be sure to post any charges and/or cancellations/reversals on or after February 16, 2018 in the appropriate term, 201820 (Spring 2018).

TO ALL DEPARTMENTS CURRENTLY BILLING ONLINE THROUGH BANNER: Effective November 15, 2017, the term on Banner will change to 201810 (Winter 2018). Please be sure to post any charges and/or cancellations/reversals on or after November 15, 2017 in the appropriate term, 201810 (Winter 2018).

Please find revised guidance to this email at this link (as of 3/20/2018). UCR's Salary Cost Transfer Request System is currently under development and is planned for deployment in late March. Departmental requests for UCPath related salary cost transfers should be held until the system is deployed. To assist with tracking necessary salary cost transfers...

Revised Reporting: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) permitted colleges and universities to choose between two methods for reporting Qualified Tuition and Related Expenses (QTREs) to students on the Form 1098-T. For tax years 2016 and prior, University of California, Riverside (UCR) reported QTREs in Box 1 (payments received for QTREs), rather than in Box 2...

Thank you for your patience as we transition to the new version of SuperDOPE. The following announcement contains some important information for SuperDOPE users regarding bug resolution, communication tools, and user group meetings. RSpace. SuperDOPE V2 will be migrated to RSpace the evening of 1/25/18. In the meantime, please access SuperDOPE from the following direct...

PPS is now open to process Single and Mass Expense Transfers (EDTS & EDTM Screens) through April 2018. Please use PPS to process monthly and biweekly payroll transactions that originated in PPS. Payroll expenses that originate in UCPath should also be processed using UCPath. Use pay cycle MO and Pay End Date that corresponds to...

Please see the attached memos from Office of the President regarding the taxability of 1) moving expenses and 2) certain gift cards provided as employee achievement awards related to the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Questions should be directed to epayfeedback@ucr.edu. Attachments: Taxable Moving Expenses Memo 012218; Taxable Employee Achievement Awards Memo 012218

Good News! The UCPath December payroll journals for 1) the monthly paid employees and 2) biweekly pay period ending 12/30/17 posted on 1/18/18 and the December ledgers will be available early next week. In addition, a new version of SuperDOPE will be deployed on 1/19/19. All existing SuperDOPE users will access the new version via...

The Accounting Office is pleased to announce training for new travel coordinators on January 24, 2018 from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm at the UC Intellicenter. The training will cover UC Business & Finance Bulletin G-28 Travel Policy, UCR Policy & Procedure 900-20, the UC Connexxus booking tool, and iTravel (web-based travel reimbursement system). Participants...

The UCPath payroll journals for December and release of the new SuperDOPE are still pending. Additional information will be distributed tomorrow. Thanks for your continued patience. ----------------------------------------- From: Bobbi McCracken, Associate Vice Chancellor - Business & Financial Services and Controller Sent: Tue, Jan 9, 2018 3:46 PM To: UCRFS and SuperDOPE Users Lists Subject: December...

With the conversion to UCPath, there are many changes to processes and data elements that impact the PIWRS and Payroll Certification Reports. While significant progress has been made on the required system remediation efforts, the December PIWRS statements and Payroll Certifications will be delayed until late January. Notifications will be sent when these reports are...

Please review the following message from the UC Travel Center and pass on the information to your travelers as appropriate. Thanks. --------------- UC Central Travel Management --------------- As discussed during the Travel Council call, below you'll find detailed information regarding the Virgin America/Alaska Airlines frequent traveler rewards program and the error message users are receiving...