ABS Newsletters

May

• Fiscal year-end preparation that you can do now
• Year-end moratoriums and cutoffs
• New SkillSoft course on faculty summer salaries
• Receipts: $25 threshold and scanning
• Get an email address from donors for gift receipts
• Two new SPA forms: Project Manager Change form and Project Reorg form
• InnerView: Chyrl Taylor

April

• The right way to record personal expense reimbursements
• Property Management Training Session 2: Property Disposal
• U.S. Budget sequestration impact
• New m-Fin Fiscal Roles lookup report is "pretty cool"
• Polices under review
• Submit your good ideas to CUSP
• Sponsored project notification process improvement
• No accrual for final FY13 biweekly pay period
• Fiscal year-end starting to make noises
• InnerView: Rebekah Martino

March

• SPO invoice authorization changes on March 1
• Fund 98 (Non-Budget Activity) is new
• Resource Planning Basics — new training from the Budget Office
• ARRA spending deadline
• Need to reclassify position budgets?
• OMB proposes sweeping grants management reform
• Get NSF projects ready for ACM$
• Takeaways from the PSC Town Hall
• InnerView: Lauren Miremont

February

• ABS newsletter new format
• Vacation and sick leave payouts
• Continuing budget change cutoff April 15
• Fund 35 (Gift Projects) is new
• SpeedType fiscal staff changes
• PETs and ePER recertification
• One less HRMS gray day
• Research Administrators Meeting spring schedule
• System policy changes result in 59.5% reduction in APS number
• DEPA due 3/31/13
• OUC town hall materials available
• InnerView: Liz Spencer

January

• QRC lives to fight another day
• How to account for insurance proceeds
• FY14 budget planning
• J-1 visa processing fee
• No more INs through ABS
• A blog is born
• New fabrication process

December

• Policy Changes on the Horizon
• ePERS Policy Now Includes Hourly Workers
• Allocations and INs: New Routing
• Sales Tax Stays the Same
• Property Management Training
• InnerView: Andy Wang

November

• Clean Up Procurement and Travel Card Transactions
• Holiday Season Reminders
• Space Surveys Past Due
• Petty Cash Forms Go To ABS
• CAS Forms Go To OCG
• Audit Findings–A Cautionary Tale
• New NIH Query

October

• Find the Procedural Statement
• Faculty Fair
• Space Surveys Due
• Turn Off Access When You Leave
• ePERs News
• Q&A: Reusing/Repurposing SpeedTypes
• New Procurement Training Format
• InnerView: Kate Tallman

September

• After the Fact Purchases
• ePERS Enhancement
• Do You SNA?
• International Wires
• New ChartField Forms
• Space Survey: Don't Wait
• CPE Courses Lineup
• Parting Shot: Hua Xu
• Student Views: Jasmine Xiang and Kristin Speedy

August

• An Unconventional History of the Accounting Handbook
• Your Good Ideas Wanted
• FishNet Headed for the Deep Six
• CCS introduces Ecliptics
• DAICR Decoded
• Proposal Submission Policy
• Get Spaced Out (Space Survey)

July

• Policies in the News
• Final Fringe Benefit Rates
• Sponsored Projects Hot Tip
• It's Accrual World
• Fiscal Certification is Inclusive

June

• Year End Close Calendar
• Gift Wire Timing Change
• FY13 Rates at a Glance
• FY End 2012: What's New or Notable?
• CUF Cost Sharing Reimbursement Reminders

May

• Year-End Check Up
• Year-End Moratoriums
• Beware Telecom Sales Tax
• Continuing Budget Cutoff
• PeopleSoft HRMS Query
• Automatic Concur Reports

April

• Asset, Revenue, or Expense?
• Combine Related Expenses on Expense Reports
• Continuing Budget Cutoff
• Reimburse Petty Cash Funds
• FYE Biweekly Pay Period
• P-Card Charge-o-Graph
• FY13 Auxiliary Fund Budgeting
• ABS Org Realignment
• Faculty Summer Salaries
• PeopleSoft Login Change

March

• What is DAICR?
• Carl's m-Fin Blog
• P-Card Cleanup
• Continuing Budget Cutoff
• Time to Realign Salary and Benefits Budgets?
• FY13 Planning Parameters
• Petty Cash and Change Funds Forms Routing
• Innerview: Megan Schosker

February

• Campus Alcohol Policy Makeover
• NIH Reduces Salary Cap
• Classified to Exempt Changes Require Housekeeping
• Cost Share Reimbursements from CUF
• New Chartfield Forms
• Final Friday Discussions
• APS New Year Diet
• CUSP Pop Quiz

January

• Requester Oversight in CU Marketplace
• Pre-authorize all Travel
• New Sales Tax Certificate
• Spend ARRA Awards by 9/30/13
• Fiscal Staff on Fund 30/31
• When Position Number Changes
• 2012 Mileage Rate

December

• A Star is (Re)Born (The Guide)
• Move Needed SPOs to CU Marketplace
• Sales Tax Stays the Same
• Effort Reporting Alert
• Don't Sit on ARRA Funds
• SUNY Audit
• CPE Courses
• Departmental Property Management Training

November

• PBA Launches New How-To Resource
• When Portals Collide
• Need a Different Ship-To?
• Planets Page Leaves Orbit
• Receipts Up To $25
• State Travel Cards Cancelled
• FIN8RPT Reports New Home
• Q&A: Rebate in the form of a Debit Card

October

• Evolution of the Fiscal Staff Role
• PV Goes Electronic
• New Form is Born: PA
• Slip Sliding Away
• Fellowship Template
• ePERS Summary by PI Repor
• Faculty Fair
• Fiscal Roles and Approval Authority at a Glance

September

• Sponsorships
• Travel & What Hasn't Changed
• Fellowship Appointments
• Q&A: CU Marketplace Prices
• New Biweekly Timesheet
• Switch to the New Travel Card
• Innerview: Stefanie Furman

August

• Stake Undead Concur Transactions
• CU Marketplace Goes Liv
• UCD Reports
• Policy & Procedures Update
• Q&A: Fiscal Certification
• Q&A: VAT Number

July

• Year-End Close Calendar
• Telecom Charges Change
• Burst Reports Go Bust
• Pcard Accrual Corrections—Warning
• New Travel Form
• Fiscal Certification & You

June

• Year-End Close Calendar
• F&A, Fringe Benefit, and GAIR rates for FY12
• PCard Charges—Just Do It
• Credit Card Acceptance Procedures
• CPE Credits
• Exit Innerview: Sandra Godden

May

• Smooth Out the Year-End Ride
• Year-End Moratoriums
• Big Travel Changes May 2
• PCard Charge-O-Graph
• Understand the PCard Puzzle
• Equipment Inventory
• Certified Departmental Property Managers
• Innerview: Carolyn James

April

• Cognos Training: What You Think
• FY12 Auxiliary Budgets
• GF Deficit Report Goes Electronic
• Procurement Card Charge-O-Graph
• The Basics
• Revised JE Guidelines
• New Model m-Fin Reports

March

• What Does Available Balance Really Mean?
• Continuing Budget Cutoff
• Clean Up Old PCard Charges
• Delayed PCard Receipts
• Code Costs Consistently
• Internal vs. External Sales

February

• Cash Tips from OCM
• NCURA Meeting in Denver
• PSLite New Version & Who to Call
• Mainframe Decommissioning
• Campus Equipment Inventory
• OUC & PSC Town Hall Meetings
• NSF Wants Faculty Feedback
• Innerview: Carl Sorenson

January

• New Cognos Reports
• Sales Tax Goes Up
• Petty Cash Fund Limit Rises
• Mileage Rate Increase
• F&A vs. Direct Costs
• Last Call for Printed Reports
• Property Accounting Website
• New & Updated Policies & Forms
• Innerview: Brendon Johnson

December

• Multi-Function Devices Case Study
• How to Stay on Top of Effort Reporting in 6 Clicks
• Sales Tax Hike
• Patent Expense Account
• Research Administrator Mail List
• GIK Giving Season
• DPM Training
• Innerview: Wendi Pevler

November

• Inside a PI's Head
• New Sales Tax Exemption Certificate
• ARRA Recovery Act Reporting
• New Departmental Property Manager Training & Certification
• NSF to Prohibit Voluntary Cost Sharing
• CUSP Forum for Good Ideas
• ePER Reminder

October

• New & Improved Fiscal Procedures
• Student Financials Reports
• COA-Lite Tip for Special Requests
• Lesson from an Audit
• IRS Tax Exemption Letter
• Grant Proposal Submissions
• Innerview: LeeAnn Baronett

September

• Official Functions with Alcohol
• Double Check Scanned Receipts
• Property Tag Feedback
• Adding Fiscal Staff to Fund 30/31
• Tax Exemption Troubles?
• Q&A: Difference in Time it Takes Card Charges to Hit Expense System

August

• Expense System Retrospective
• PSLite New Model Year
• No Subordinate Approvers
• Unrelated Business Income Tax UBTI
• Balance Sheet Details Due
• Q&A: Travel Advances
• Budgeting Corner
• Innerview: Nadiya Vovk

July

• Fiscal Year End Calendar
• Fiscal Certification Season
• Security Alert
• Accrual Tale
• Policy Scoreboar
• Innerview: Wendy Fuchs

June

• Fiscal Year End Calendar
• Budgeting Corner
• Get Those Expense Reports In
• FedEx Charges on Sponsored Projects
• Equipment Inventory
• Expense System Accruals
• Paying Participant Costs
• New F&A Rates for FY11-13
• Business and Personal Travel
• Innerview: Elizabeth Smith

May

• Fiscal Year End Survival Tips
• Year End Moratoriums
• Expense System Adds Expense Types
• Account Code Final Call
• Equipment Inventory
• Auxiliary Budgeting
• Number of Expense Report Submissions Q&A
• Innerview: Mary Lippi

April

• Auxiliary Fund Budgeting
• Account Code Reduction
• New Non-Employee Reimbursement Form
• Participants and Lump Sum Allowances Q&A
• Cash Awards Paid by Sponsored Projects Q&A
• Innerview: Erika Smith

March

• Account Code Clean-Up
• Operating Expenses in Plant Funds
• Expense System Generates Systemic Changes March 1, 2010
• Q&A: Keep Scanned Receipts?
• Q&A: Expense System Acronyms in the GL
• Q&A: What Account to Use for Study Subjects
• Innerview: Jean Stewart

February

• Procurement Card Detailed Reports in the Expense System
• PSC Open House
• Sponsored Projects Training
• Keep Your ID Private
• Fall ePERS online
• Q&A: Account Code to Use for Gift Card to Employee
• Q&A: Expense System Report Deadline
• Innerview: Barry Northrop

January

• Get a Grip on Unallocated PCard Charges
• Mileage Rate Drops 10%
• Expense System Survey
• Transparency Online Project
• PDF 3rd Party Program
• Capitalizing Repairs, Renovations and Remodeling policy revised
• Cost Sharing policy revised
• Efficiency Task Force Ideas Wanted; Policy/Procedures/Forms changes

December

• Payroll Encumbrances in Sponsored Projects
• Cancel Your Access When You Leave
• How Much Do I Have to Spend?
• No Change in Sales Tax
• ACARD System Still Active
• Account Code Review

November

• Gifts from Vendors
• Higher Education Fiscal Guidelines
• Expense System—Fax, Scan, or Save As?
• ARRA Awards to Date

October

• Get Those JEs Approved
• Normalized vs. Traditional Reports Update
• Are We Running Out of SpeedTypes?
• After-the-Fact Purchases
• ARRA Grants

September

• Reports Go Back to the Future
• ARRA at a Glance
• Allow Time to Set Up Petty Cash & Change Funds
• Constitution Day
• Check Cashing Tips at OCM
• Q&A: Checks Made Out to CUF
• FIN Training Manual Change

August

• Tuition Remission ABCs & PETs
• Budgets in the New FY
• Ahoy Petty Cash Custodians
• Account Code Cleanup
• Balance Sheet Details
• PV Pop Quiz
• Q&A: ID Revenue/Expense Accounts
• Q&A: Official Function Accounts
• Innerview: Sandra Boimbo

July

• Fiscal Year End Calendar
• Expense System Update
• Capitalization Threshold Raised to $75,000
• Q&A: DUNS Numbers
• Policies Under Review
• Fiscal Certification & You
• Innerview: Liz Wright

June

• Fiscal Year End Calendar
• Sponsored Project JE Tips
• Same-day Mail to PSC
• SPA Compliance Area Changes
• Q&A: Fringe Benefit Charges on One Time Payments Includes Eco Pass Recharge
• Innerview: Susan Wyn

May

• Fiscal Year End Prep
• PI Leaving Your Department?
• FY09 Year End Moratoriums
• Q&A: A Report for an Org's Fiscal Roles and Reports To
• Q&A: Petty Cash Fund to Pay Study Subjects in More Than One Project
• FY10 Fringe Benefit Rates
• Equipment Inventory Updates Due
• FY10 Auxiliary Budgeting
• Innerview: Greg Roers

April

• Expense System in Your Future
• Black Box Quiz
• FY2010 Auxiliary Budgeting
• F&A Budgets
• Innerview: Sharon DeCarlo

March

• Sponsored Projects: Spend with Care
• F&A Space and Library Surveys
• FY10 GAIR rate
• FY09 Budget Cutoff
• Innerview: Dave Sayers

February

• SkillPort Report
• Opinion: Is There a Problem?
• Property Services Pick-up
• Efficiency Task Force
• Slimming the Travel Codes
• Q&A: Who to Call with PSLite Questions?
• CU Foundation Transfer Requests FPS
• Travel Authorization and Expense PPS
• Innerview: Lori Haynes

January

• CUConnect Link Not Working
• FY10 Planning Parameters
• Property Services Pick-Up
• Efficiency Task Force
• Fiscal Code of Ethics Training Q&A
• Sales Tax Charged on University Purchase Q&A
• Innerview: Jenna Hamilton

December

• Sales Tax Collection
• No Change in Sales Tax
• Outside Checking Accounts
• Try Me Reports
• Holiday Season Reminders
• Hand Drawn Express Warrant Q&A
• FinProHelp Ticket
• Innerview: Carrie Howard

November

• Cost Transfers Do's and Don'ts
• Revenue Shortfall Action Plan
• Bag that Cash
• OCG Report Tool
• Spot Awards
• Memorial Event Q&A
• Personal Expense on ACARD Q&A
• Innerview: Maggie Young

October

• Petty Cash & Change Fund Changes
• Fiscal Certification Feedback
• Wireless Telecom Survey
• Summer ePERs
• Black Box Headers
• Changing Orgs Midstream
• Fiscal Responsibility Training
• Faculty Computer Purchase Program Q&A
• OCG/SPA 2008/09 Program
• Innerview: Jenny Shao

September

• Sponsored Project JE Do's & Don'ts
• Time to Toss Old Records?
• Standard Descriptions for Project-Related FOPPS
• PSLite Q&A
• Subsystems and Fund 30

August

• What Happens After the Close?
• Fiscal Certification Labs
• Balance Sheet Details Due
• Budget Update
• Q&A: Exporting PSLite Reports to Excel with Access 2007
• Innerview: Pat Libhart

July

• FY End Calendar
• Records Disposal Update
• Mileage Rate
• Travel Expenses and the Procurement Card
• Expenditure Control Suspended
• CUConnect Upgrade
• Q&A: State Travel Card
• Q&A: eBay
• The SPA Dance
• New ePER Policy
• Innerview: James Lei

June

• FY End Calendar
• Fund 30 JE Tips
• FY09 Benefit Rates
• Gift SpeedType Setup & Maintenance FPS
• Q&A: Recruiting Costs Update
• Mail to PSC
• ABS Email changes
• Innerview: Jeni Comly

May

• Fiscal Year End Preparation
• ACARD Reallocation ABCs
• Reporting System Tune-up
• Q&A: Recruiting Costs
• Q&A: Sales Tax on Giveaways
• Q&A: Driver License number on checks
• Innerview: Charlotte Whyte

April

• Cash Control
• New COA & Gift forms
• Printing by Org Node
• New Travel Account Codes
• Service Center Equipment
• Innerview: Lynda Reisinger

March

• Auxiliary Budgeting
• FY09 GAIR Rate
• Fund 28 EC Attributes
• ePER Step-by-Steps
• Approval is not a Rubberstamp
• Non-Capital Cleanup
• Faculty Computer Program
• Q&A: PSLite Logon
• Innerview: Jim Sheppard

February

• Expenditure Control Phase 3
• New PV Reimbursement Restrictions
• FY08 Continuing Budget Cutoff; BJEs and Expenditure Control
• Incompatible Access
• Data Update Project
• Q&A: Free Movie Tickets
• Innerview: Pat Dodson

January

• Mind the Monthly Close
• Recognition and Training
• Backward Cash Transfers
• Portal to Portal
• Sales Tax Rate Change
• New Sales Tax License
• Fund 30 Expenditure Control
• Certify those PETs
• CIW Got You Down?
• Q&A: Key Contact Names
• Approve Those Journals
• Expense System Update
• Mileage Rate Change
• Innerview: Meg Thompson

December

• Payment Voucher PPS
• Donation Activity & Holiday Parties
• When PI's are Gone
• Cell Phones & Projects
• Per Diem & Projects
• Calendar Deadlines
• Excess Ticket Distribution
• Chemical Alert
• Q&A: Electronic Images of Documents
• InnerView: Sutha Thanikasalam

November

• Home Internet Expense
• Welcome to CU
• Don't Post Journals after Close
• Subclasses need unique speedtypes
• Reports on Ice
• Q&A: Reports that Consolidate Subclasses
• Co-PIs Get Reports
• Fiscal Staff Expansion Pack
• Retention of University Records
• JE Approval in a One-Person Office
• Fundraising Events & Journal IDs
• InnerView: Deedee Joeris

October

• What Reports Do You Use?
• Advance Payment to Vendors PPS
• Reporting System Tips & Tricks
• Need to Add Fiscal Staff to Sponsored Projects?
• Portal Changes Channels
• SPO Automatic Close Periods
• Travel Changes
• SPA Email Address
• Q&A: Expenditure Control
• ePER Portal and Form Change
•  InnerView: Chris "Z-Man" Zetterholm

September

• Q&A: When Not to Approve a JE
• Records Retention New Policy
• Incompatible Access
• SPOs in Phase 2
• Portal Report Dates
• Financial Summary Report
• Budget for ID Revenue & Transfers In
• Amount Available
• InnerView: Kathy Phillips

August

• Expenditure Control Success Strategy
• EC can be EZ
• New Fund 10 Expenditure Control Report
• Fiscal Certification
• Draft APS Policies
• Q&A: Printing Multiple Reports
• Updated COA Form
• FPS & PPS Glossary
• New Acronym List
• InnverView: Demetria Ross

July

• Fiscal Year End Countdown
• SAS 112
• PET Deadline
• Last Minute Mail to Denver
• UCD Audit
• FY08 Benefit Rates
• Effort Reporting Red Flags
• OCG Online PowerPoint
• InnerView: Nataliia Frazier

June

• Fiscal Year End Calendar
• FY08 Auxiliary Budgeting
• Wireless PPS deadline
• Inform Your Approvers
• Q&A: Employee Recognition
• Town Meeting Handouts
• Goodbye Printed Reports
• ISC Rate Sheets
• New GAIR Rate
• Updated COA Form
• Cash Policy Change
• InnerView: Diane Przygocki

May

• Fiscal Year End Prep
• FY08 Auxiliary Budgeting
• CIW Ad Hoc Report Survey
• Q&A: Over-the-Counter Drugs for Employees
• Personal Tech Guidelines
• F&A on Simple Speedtype Query
• Gift Training
• ePERS Training
• Fund 10 Expenditure Control
• Fund 34 Expenditure Control
• InnerView: Chris Seymour

April

• Incompatible Access
• Audits and You
• Capitalization of Costs
• Credit Cards
• FY08 Salary Uploads
• GIK Changes
• Spring Campus Forums
• Q&A: Paying for Services
• Q&A: GIK Tee Shirt
• Expense System
• Cash Advance Update
• Personal Internet Expense
• Newsletter Poll
• Expenditure Control Phase 2
• InnerView: Linda Johnson

March

• Sponsored Project News
• New Controls for Wireless Telecom
• Q&A: UPI Fund 80
• Q&A: Gift Cards Same as Cash?
• Q&A: Massages
• ACARD not for Services
• InnerView: Leila McCamey

February

• Expenditure Control Override
• Budget Change Cutoff
• N/A JE Status
• Emergency Procurements
• CIW Blues
• Training Tab
• OCG Trainings
• New Petty Cash Form
• Meet Steve McNally
• InnerView with Hua Xu

January

• Mac computer support
• Expenditure Control Forum
• PS Headers Out of Date
• ePERS Email & Training
• Fiscal Roles and Sponsored Projects
• PSLite's Latest Tool
• Mileage Rate Increase
• Sales Tax Increase
• Need a Gift FOPPS?
• Wire Transfer Q&A

December special edition

• Change in PS Edit & Budget Check
• SPO Automatic Close Period Under Review
• If Your Gift FOPPS are Inactive
• Own a Mac?

December

• Alcohol and Travel Policies & Procedures
• Official Functions & Alcohol
• Property Disposal Form
• ePER Made Easy
• New F&A Rates
• InnerView with Jeanne Connely

November

• Look at 3 PSC Procedural Statements
• Holiday Parties and Food Drives
• Holiday Potluck Q&A
• Certify Fund 30 PETs
• CUConnect Open Forum
• Calendar Freebie
• ePER Notes
• ePER QRC
• New Phase 1 STs
• InnerView with Lauren Caraballo

October

• Doing Business with the CU Foundation
• Cost Sharing Gets a New Look
• Campus Forum
• ePERS Meeting
• Records Disposal Date
• Reporting System News
• Expenditure Control Delay
• InnerView with Bev Rogers

September

• Reporting System–What's Easy, What's Not
• Expenditure Control Countdown
• ePERS Training
• PSLite New Model
• Q&A Personal Use of University Facilities
• InnerView with Maribel Markham

August

• Q&A Self-Generated Revenue vs Profit & GAIR
• More on Crediting an Expense
• Reporting Tool: What to Expect
• Gift Fund Training Deadline
• ePERS, CU EthicsLine Goes Live
• Boulder Tax Seminar
• InnerView with Phensiri Phanichpatom

July

• Q&A Commencement Regalia
• Fiscal year-end edition with expanded deadline calendar
• Year-end Homestretch
• Gift Fund $0 Threshold
• PERs Going Online
• CU Ethics Hotline
• New PSLite Version
• Fringe Benefits Rates FY07
• JE Survey Results
• Reporting Tool on Track
• InnerView with Sandra Godden

June

• Fiscal year-end edition with expanded deadline calendar
• Q&A Foundation Reimbursements
• Q&A Crediting an Expense part III
• CCS Online Forms
• FY07 GAIR Rate
• Hourly Work on Projects
• Year-End Budgeting
• COA Lite
• Gift JE Approvals
• InnerView with Pam Starbuck

May

• Q&A Crediting an Expense Update
• Project Audits & Fines
• Fiscal Year End Preparation
• Property Accounting
• GIK Equipment
• Fund 3x Cost Transfers
• FY07 Auxiliary Budgeting
• Simple Speedtype Query
• Gift Training Deadline
• Reporting Tool Materials
• Cash Bar Change
• Dirty Desks
• ABS Quarterly Awards
• InnerView with Laura Ragin

April

• Q&A Crediting an Expense
• Cost Sharing in a Nutshell
• Q&A Outside Consulting, Gift JEs, FYE, Gift Cash Deficit Notices, InnerView with Terri Roark

March

• Q&A Gift Check Processing
• Gifts Used to be so Simple
• Q&A Special Events
• Official Functions With Alcohol Purchase
• Reporting Tool Update
• InnerView with Jud Hurd

February

• Q&A Gifts in Kind
• Q&A Clothing Supplied to Employees by Dept.
• CU Hosts NSF Conference
• Fiscal Code of Ethics Training
• Alcohol Purchases & Provisions
• Financial Reporting Makeover
• Sneak Peek at Gift Fund Changes
• InnerView with Nataliia and Ksenia

January

• No issue this month

July – December

• No issues during these months

June

• Employee Changes
• Compensating Controls
• Employee Reimbursements
• Fraud
• Thanks to Research Administrators
• Practical Guidelines for Determining the Reasonable Cost of Lodging on sponsored Projects
• Daily Fiscal Year End Email Reminders
• Fiscal Year End Web Page
• Auxiliary Fund and Renewal & Replacement Plant Funds Budget Development
• New User Finance System Training
• Training and Education
• Payroll Expense Transfers
• Essential FOPPS Maintenance
• Payroll Deadlines
• Financial Deadlines
• ABS Web Site
• Updated ABS Staff List

May

• Employee Recognition
• New Employees, Employee Changes
• Compensating Controls
• Employee Reimbursements
• Special Event Administration
• Using the Payment Voucher and Travel Voucher with Fund 30 and Fund 31
• SPA Approval and Procurement
• Working with Your FOPPS at Fiscal Year End
• Year End Town Meeting
• Property Accounting at Year End
• Auxiliary Fund and Renewal & Replacement Plant Funds Budget Development
• Q&A on Softball League Fees 
• FY2005 Continuing Budget change cutoff;

April

• Help Desk Hints
• Finance System Access
• Finding Unposted Journals
• Encumbrance Journal Entries
• SPA Approval for Subsystem Feeds through the Black Box
• Balance Sheet Transactions Report
• Effort Reporting
• Fund 30 Cost Transfer Approvals
• IN Journal Entries for Sponsored Projects
• Records Management
• Q&A about Notary Licenses
• Recognition Awards

March

• New Director of Accounting
• Upgrade Resources
• IN Forms
• Mainframe Processes and 8 Digit SpeedTypes
• Cost Transfer Review Criteria
• GAIR
• Update to Chapter 12 (Accounts Receivable) of The Guide

February

• Finance System Upgrade information
• Update to Chapter 10 (Cash Control) of The Guide

January

• New Sales Tax Rate
• New IN Forms
• Mid-Year FOPPS Maintenance
• Compliance Corner about Potential OIG Audit Topics
• Q&A about Sensitive Expenditures and Meals for Visiting Colleagues
• Upgrade Communication Plan for CU-Boulder
• Upgrade and the Black Box
• Important Upgrade Dates
• Org Operating Unit ChartField Attribute

December

• BRS Detail of GL Transactions Reports
• Collection Fees on Accounts sent to CCS
• Outstanding Wire Transfers
• Sponsored Projects Accounting Chapter of The Guide
• PET Approval for Funds 30 and 31
• Q&A about Sensitive Expenditures and Meals for Spouses or Significant Others
• Upgrade Timing and Training

November

• ABS Name Change
• New SPA Staff
• Changes in SPA Agency Assignments
• Tuition and PETs
• PET Approvals
• Compliance Corner
• Finance System Upgrade
• Outstanding Wire Transfers
• UBIT

October

• Flat Benefit Rates
• Finance System Upgrade
• Opening PSLite

September

• Allowable Costs
• Q&A Addressing Sale of Equipment
• Fringe Benefits Timing
• Default Departmental Payroll Suspense SpeedType

August

• Cost Sharing
• E-Bay Purchases
• Records Management

July

• Year End Wrap Up - Uncorrected Errors
• Supporting Detail for Balance Sheet Accounts
• Fringe Benefit Rates
• General Fund Budget Rollforward
• General fund Budget Cash Carry Forward
• Auxiliary/Renewal & Replacement FOPPS
• New Sponsored Projects Newsletter Feature
• Cost Transfer Policy

June

• New Director of Accounting
• New SPA Accountant
• Essential Website for Fiscal Year End
• Important Documents for Fiscal Year End
• Payroll Suspense at Fiscal Year End
• Old Payroll Suspense Clearing Entries
• Inventory
• Property Accounting
• Procurement Service Center Year End Information
• Sponsored Project Checks
• Outstanding Wire Transfers
• Internal Service Center 2005 Rate Calculation
• 2005 Auxiliary and Renewal/Replacement Budget Development
• FY2005 Dates

May

• SPA - Lessons to Learn from NSF Audit
• Draft of SPA Chapter of The Guide
• NCURA Annual Meeting
• Working with Departmental FOPPS at Year End
• Approaching Fiscal Year End Deadlines
• Fiscal Year End Information on ABS Web Site
• Fiscal Year End Town Meeting
• Internal Service Center 2005 Rate Calculation
• FY2005 Auxiliary and Renewal/Replacement Budgets
• Late-Breaking Petty Cash News

April

• Moratorium on Creating New Accounts
• FY2005 Budget Planning Information
• Restrictions on Credit Card Receipts
• Sales Tax Payments by Electronic Funds Transfer
• National Science Foundation Report relative to Sponsored Projects
• Q&A about Using Petty Cash to Purchase Gasoline (DON'T!)

March

• ABS Reorganization and Staff Changes
• Video Relay
• DRAFT Administrative Policy Statement about the Foundation

February

• Update to Chapter 10 of The Guide pertaining to Cash Control
• ABS FTE Policy
• Q&A Addressing ACARD Purchases from State Contracts and Gifts - Faculty Gifts Restricted for the Faculty's Programs

January

• Prohibition on Recording Social Security Number or Credit Card Number When Accepting Checks
• SPA Tips (Tuition, PETs and Tuition, SPA Staff Changes)
• Q&A (Sensitive Expenditures
• Work-Study PETs
• Official Service Provider Designation
• Private Property Destruction Reimbursement

December

• Holiday Schedule for Transfers from the CU Foundation to CU-Boulder
• Sales Tax
• CU Foundation Development Officers
• Cash Transfers
• ID Revenue and Expense Account Edits
• Operating Expense General Budget Account Change

November

• Gift FOPPS
• SPA Tips about: Tuition Updates, NCURA and Cost Transfers, Cost Sharing, NCURA and Policies and Audit Risk
• Property Accounting - Follow-up Review of Equipment Physical Inventory Control
• Q&A addressing Sensitive Expenditures, Salary Expense Accounting and ACARD Receipts

October

• SPA Tips
• Update to The Guide
• PS Lite Update
• Journal Source Codes
• Tackle The Guide course

September

• Search Tips for ABS Web Pages
• Records Management program
• Correction of Fringe Benefit Rate Error
• Q&A addressing Sensitive Expenditures

August

• SPA Tips addressing Federal Fiscal Year End on September 30th
• Tuition Updates
• Q&A addressing Expense Reimbursement/Revenue, Calling Cards, ACARD E-Bay Paypal Accounts, Financial Aid Payments

July

• Newly Revised Sponsored Project Cost Policies
• Interdepartmental Revenue/Expenses and Sales to Agency FOPPS
• Update to the Cash Control Chapter of The Guide
• General Fund Budget Rollforward
• Budget Cash Carryforward
• FY 2004 Auxiliary/Renewal & Replacement Budget Development
• Fringe Benefit Rates and Encumbrances
• SPA Tips - Manage Cost Transfers
• Spring 2003 PERS
• PS Lite File Update

June

• Year-End Close Information
• Deadlines
• FY 2004 Auxiliary/Renewal & Replacement Budget Development
• Internal Service Center Rate Worksheets
• SPA Tips about PERS
• Update to the Accounts Receivable Chapter of The Guide

May

• Year-End Closing Town Meeting; Deadlines
• FY 2004 Auxiliary/Renewal & Replacement Budget Development
• Internal Service Center Rate Worksheets
• SPA Tips about: 154xxxx Project Numbers
• Spring 2003 Tuition Remission
• Payroll and Tuition Remission Adjustments
• Summer Tuition Remission
• Spending University Cost Sharing/Matching Funds
• FY2004 GAIR Rates
• UCB Allocation of Fringe Benefits using Flat Rates
• PS Lite Update
• ABS Mission Statement

April

• SPA Tips about PETs
• "CAR" Test for Grant Expenses
• Prohibition of Cash Tranfers on Projects
• Depreciation and Voluntary Transfer Accounts

March

• SPA Tips about NCURA Conferences and PERS
• The Departmental Financial Management Guide (The Guide)
• Training and Education Offerings including an Internal Service Center Workshop and an Accounts Receivable Workshop in addition to the standard offerings

February

• Budget Position Number Format
• ABS Feedback Survey
• SPA Tip about Revenue Accounts on Projects
• SPA Area Accountants
• Auxiliary Recharge Rate for the Eco Pass Program
• PS Lite Training
• Q&A about Pooled Investment Earnings, Workers' Compensation, & Collection Costs

January

• SPA Tip about Cost Sharing
• ABS Feedback Survey
• Account 699999

December

• Business Process Survey
• Q&A about:
• Accounts Receivable/Credit Cards
• Sale of Equipment
• Moving Expense Reimbursement
• Payroll
• PeopleSoft Error Message
• PeopleSoft Finance Access by Temporary Employees
• Uniform Allowance

November

• Q&A about:
• Pooled Investment Earnings
• Credit Card Vendor Fees
• Salary Overpayments
• Ticket Sales Accounts

October

• New Campus Sales Tax Policy
• PAS Procedures
• Quick Reference Cards
• Q&A about:
• Instructional Fees
• Memberships to Retail Stores
• Outside Organizations

September

• PAS Procedures on Equipment Deletion
• Q&A about:
• Employee Awards or Gifts
• Employee Reimbursement
• Equipment
• Meal Cost
• PeopleSoft Finance Security Access
• Study Subjects
• Uniform Allowance

August

• Business Operations Questionnaire
• The Stampede
• Q&A about Accounts Receivable Write-Off Approvals

July

• FY2003 Auxiliary Fund and Renewal & Replacement Fund Budgets
• General Fund Budget Rollforward
• Budget Cash Carryforward
• Property Accounting Inventory Database
• Q&A about:
• Official Functions/Meals
• Donations, Checks
• Journal Entries
• Tax Numbers
• Budget Check Module/Edit Check

June

• Year-End Close Deadlines
• FY2003 Auxiliary Fund and Renewal & Replacement Fund Budget Development
• Property Accounting Inventory Database
• Property Accounting Updates
• FY03 GAR/GIR Rates
• Q&A about Payroll Encumbrances

May

• Year-End Close Meeting
• Deadlines
• Streamlining of General Fund Employer-Paid Benefits
• Q&A about:
• Auxiliary Enterprises
• Royalty Income
• Revenue
• Cash Transfers (including Cash Transfer Table)

April

• Information for New Hires
• Q&A about Telephones (Cell Phones)

March

• Change to Fund 20 Title
• Audit Report
• Personnel Effort Reports
• Records Management Policy
• Q&A about:
• Equipment
• ACARD/Postage
• Checks/Financial Aid

February

• Personnel Effort Reports for Fall 2001 Semester
• Records Management Policy

January

• Sales Tax Rate Change for 2002
• Property Accounting System Manual,

December

• The Guide
• The Primer
• Sales Tax Rate Change for 2002
• Benefits Estimates Update

November

• Payroll Suspense
• Use of International Air Carriers
• Budget Position Numbers including Vacancy Savings Numbers

October

• Deadlines
• Training Opportunities
• Q&A

September

• The Primer
• Journal Source Codes
• New Q&A Feature

August

• Reminder from Property Accounting Office
• Training Opportunities
• ABS Web Site
• The Guide
• New Student Faculty General Budget Accounts
• IN For

July

• Property Transfer Requirements
• Change in the Use of Renewal & Replacement Plant Funds
• Change in Allowable Expense Accounts
• General Fund Rollforward
• General Fund Budget Balance Available Cash Carryforward

June

• FY01 Year-End Close Information and Significant Dates
• Payroll Suspense

May

• Year-End Closing Town Meeting
• FY2002 GAR & GIR Rates
• Auxiliary Fund, Renewal & Replacement Fund FY02 Budget Development
• The Guide
• End of Funding Suspense Report
• Funding Distribution Approvals
• Budget Position Number Format
• Budget Preparation for Fiscal Year-End

April

• FY2002 GAR & GIR Rates
• FY 2001Continuing Budget Change Cutoff
• ABS web site
• PBA web site

March

• The Guide
• End of Funding Suspense Report
• Payroll Suspense
• Fund Transfers
• Financial Administrator Workshops
• Auxiliary Fund
• Renewal & Replacement Fund Budget Workshops

February

• New Staff Members
• Auxiliary Fund

January

• Equipment and Furniture Disposal

December

• ABS Description
• Salary Survey Budget Allocation
• JE Policy

November

• ABS Structure
• Closing General Fund FOPPS
• JE Policy

Only November and December issues were published in 2000. Prior to this, ABS published a paper edition of its newsletter called Debits & Credits from January 1983 to June 1999.